The other weighed 24 ounces.

They both lived to adult life; the larger married and was the mother of two children, which she bore easily.

The other did not marry, and although not a dwarf, was under-sized; she had her catamenia every third week.
Post describes a 2-pound child.
On the other hand, there have been infants characterized by their enormous size at birth.

Among the older writers, Cranz describes an infant which at birth weighed 23 pounds; Fern mentions a fetus of 18 pounds; and Mittehauser speaks of a new-born child weighing 24 pounds.
Von Siebold in his "Lucina" has recorded a fetus which weighed 22 1/2 pounds.

It is worthy of comment that so great is the rarity of these instances that in 3600 cases, in the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, only one child reached 11 pounds.
There was a child born in Sussex in 1869 which weighed 13 1/2 pounds and measured 26 1/2 inches.