--- title: Tampa Bay Woman Gives Birth to 14 Pound Baby description: A Florida woman gave birth to a 14.1 pound baby boy last week, one of the largest babies ever to be born in the state. canonical: https://time.com/3699955/tampa-14-pound-baby/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-07T17:24:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:56:42.748Z og:title: Woman Gives Birth to 14 Pound Baby og:description: He's one of the largest babies ever to be born in Florida og:url: https://time.com/3699955/tampa-14-pound-baby/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e69efa0423f8c21/69877e232dce0108099dd6c1/fourteen-pound-baby.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2988 og:image:height: 1681 og:image:alt: Big Baby Florida og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Woman Gives Birth to 14 Pound Baby twitter:description: He's one of the largest babies ever to be born in Florida twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e69efa0423f8c21/69877e232dce0108099dd6c1/fourteen-pound-baby.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Woman Gives Birth to 14-Pound Baby > Sponsored content. 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One, 14-pound baby. Avery Ford, at 14.1 pounds, set the record for the heaviest baby born at St. Joseph’s Women’s Hospital, and is one of the largest babies ever born in Florida, [Fox 13 Tampa Bay reports](http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/28043340/tampa-woman-gives-birth-to-14-pound-baby-boy). “I was cussing up a storm,” Maxxandra said of the birth. “Yeah, it was bad.” Maxxandra and Allen Denson, the baby’s father, already have two other children. But with the addition of big baby Avery, “I have a linebacker now instead of a fullback,” Allen says. \[[_Fox 13 Tampa Bay_](http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/28043340/tampa-woman-gives-birth-to-14-pound-baby-boy)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3699955/tampa-14-pound-baby/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3699955/tampa-14-pound-baby/"},"headline":"Woman Gives Birth to 14-Pound Baby","datePublished":"2015-02-07T17:24:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:56:42.748Z","description":"He's one of the largest babies ever to be born in Florida","url":"https://time.com/3699955/tampa-14-pound-baby/","keywords":["Living","Pregnancy","Babies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e69efa0423f8c21/69877e232dce0108099dd6c1/fourteen-pound-baby.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e69efa0423f8c21/69877e232dce0108099dd6c1/fourteen-pound-baby.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Big Baby Florida","caption":"Big Baby Florida","creditText":"St. Joseph's Womens Hospital/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3699955/tampa-14-pound-baby/","name":"Woman Gives Birth to 14-Pound Baby"}}]}] ```