When she was eight months pregnant, doctors told Wendi Dolton that her baby was going to weigh more than 10 pounds.

But she told KARE in Minneapolis that didn't prepare her for the moments after the birth.

"They said 15.6, and I thought -- I was kind of groggy, I was on pain killers -- I didn't know if it was 15.6 the time," Dolton said. "And he goes, 'Weight.' And I said, 'Wait for what? What are we waiting for?'"

Her husband, Mike Dolton, said the baby got a lot of attention at the hospital.

"There's been doctors and nurses that have been around here a fair amount of years, and they've never seen one that big," he said.

The baby, named Axel Laverne, had to go to a neonatal intensive care unit because, despite his size, he was born by Caesarian section three weeks early.

"I had some clothes ready for him, and yep, he's outgrown them already. And my family bought clothes and they won't fit him," Wendi said.

"He lays up there with these little 2 pounders and 1 pounders and 3 pounders, and here he takes up the whole cart, and they actually moved him to a bigger bed," she said.

But the parents said Axel is doing well and may go home to meet his sisters in a few days.

The Guinness Book of World Records says that the biggest baby ever was born in 1879 and weighed in at 23 pounds, 12 ounces.