‘The doctor said, “Oh my gosh, she’s going to be 15-pounds.” Chrissy remembers the doctor saying, “I don’t think this baby is going to end. Are there two of them?”
‘Her cheeks were so chunky and she was just so fat. She was so gorgeous, of course.’ But Carleigh could have been even heavier. Since she arrived a week earlier than her due date, which means that had she arrived in time she would have weighed 14 pounds. Almost the same weight as the heaviest baby born in the United States this year.
‘It was crazy. Chrissy wasn’t gaining any weight for the past three weeks of her pregnancy. It was just Carleigh gaining weight,’ Corbitt said.
While giving birth to Carleigh may not have been her biggest hurdle, Twenty-seven percent of Chrissy’s body was covered in wounds after a fire ravaged her kitchen. Also, the mother-of-four was anemic all through her pregnancy but still managed to push through the delivery without complications. An overwhelmed Larry said ‘They’re both doing great now, my wife is a trooper for everything she’s gone through.’
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