Fat mom succumbs 5 months after birth
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August 3, 2010, Tuesday
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A 25-YEAR-OLD Romanian woman who weighed 240 kilograms when she gave birth to a baby girl more than five months ago, has died, media reported yesterday.
Relatives of Victoria Lacatus said she died of a heart attack on Sunday after developing a high fever and breathing problems.
Doctors from Craiova hospital in southern Romania said Lacatus' heart stopped. Hospital manager Florin Petrescu said doctors tried to resuscitate Lacatus for 30 minutes, a task made difficult because of her extreme obesity.
After she gave birth by cesarean section to a 2.9-kilogram, baby girl on February 18, Lacatus gained another 20 kilograms, her sister Cristina Sosoiu told the daily Libertatea. Doctors had told Lacatus to go on a diet but she apparently kept eating, the paper reported.
Her daughter, Anisoara, currently weighs just a little over 4 kilograms, the paper said. She lives with her maternal grandmother. It is not clear why the baby does not live with her father, Costica Lacatus.
Lacatus fell ill last week and was hospitalized in her hometown of Caracal in southern Romania before being moved to the main regional hospital where she died.
When Lacatus gave birth on February 18, Dr Daghni Rasasingham, of Britain's Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in London, said the case was rare, given the mother's weight and height of 1.6 meters. Rasasingham said she would be at risk of clots, diabetes, post-birth bleeding and infection.
In August 2008, a heavier obese woman - 255-kilogram Leanne Salt - gave birth to triplets in Britain.
Relatives of Victoria Lacatus said she died of a heart attack on Sunday after developing a high fever and breathing problems.
Doctors from Craiova hospital in southern Romania said Lacatus' heart stopped. Hospital manager Florin Petrescu said doctors tried to resuscitate Lacatus for 30 minutes, a task made difficult because of her extreme obesity.
After she gave birth by cesarean section to a 2.9-kilogram, baby girl on February 18, Lacatus gained another 20 kilograms, her sister Cristina Sosoiu told the daily Libertatea. Doctors had told Lacatus to go on a diet but she apparently kept eating, the paper reported.
Her daughter, Anisoara, currently weighs just a little over 4 kilograms, the paper said. She lives with her maternal grandmother. It is not clear why the baby does not live with her father, Costica Lacatus.
Lacatus fell ill last week and was hospitalized in her hometown of Caracal in southern Romania before being moved to the main regional hospital where she died.
When Lacatus gave birth on February 18, Dr Daghni Rasasingham, of Britain's Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in London, said the case was rare, given the mother's weight and height of 1.6 meters. Rasasingham said she would be at risk of clots, diabetes, post-birth bleeding and infection.
In August 2008, a heavier obese woman - 255-kilogram Leanne Salt - gave birth to triplets in Britain.
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