Such newborns are often delivered via caesarean section because they can suffer from oxygen deficiency or shoulder dislocations during birth.

Anorak can think of at least one other reason why gargantuan babies are delivered via the tum-tum. But Jihad was born via the vagina. It’s is not known if Jihad was his name before the birth, nor if he escaped  being called Armageddon by a matter of millimetres.