Anza Smith holds her daughter, Jordan McKibbin, who weighed 11 pounds when she was born four weeks ago.

Anza Smith of Butler didn't know she would give birth to a toddler July 16.

But when she went to her doctor's appointment July 15 at 38 weeks along, the doctor said she measured at the equivalent of 44 weeks of development.

The next day, Smith went into labor and went to Butler Memorial Hospital. After a few hours of mild labor, hospital staff decided to induce. Three hours, a drip of Pitocin and lots of pain later, Jordan Alexandria McKibbin entered the world weighing 11 pounds, 1 ounce.

"I didn't have gestational diabetes or anything like that," she said. "They (the doctors) have no idea why she was so big."

Smith's first child, Karrina, weighed in at 8 pounds, 15 ounces when she was born 19 months ago. Smith, 17, weighed 9 pounds, 1 ounce when she was born.

Dr. Patricia Arnett delivered Smith's baby.

"I've delivered almost 3,000 babies, and I've only delivered maybe three vaginally that large. That is a very large baby,"Arnett said.

"It was not an exceptionally bad birth, no difficulty in delivery. No more than a seven pound baby (would be)."

Babies can grow large in the womb for a few reasons such as gestational diabetes. But according to Arnett, genetics plays a big part.

In the delivery room were Smith's mother, an aunt and the baby's father, Joshua Rieder of Butler.

"They couldn't believe it," Smith said about the family's reaction.

"The nurse reset the scale after weighing the baby the first time. She couldn't believe she was so big,"Smith said.

Sisters Karrina and Jordan are close in size though about 18 months apart. "It's weird how similar they are," Smith said.

"She (Jordan) eats more than any newborn should," Smith joked.

Smith, who didn't have an epidural, acknowledged labor was painful. "Oh yeah. I don't want any more (children)."

Having two children at 17 can prove difficult, but Smith found an outlet to help get her through the hard times.

When she was pregnant with Karrina, she learned about a teen support group at Family First Resource Center through Butler Memorial Hospital's maternal services.

The group meets from 6 to 7 p.m. every Tuesday at the office on Washington Street and allows teen parents to talk about similar concerns, get nutrition education and resources and do crafts together. They are currently working on scrapbooks for their babies.

"That's where most of my friends are from," she said.