IN BRIEF: whoppers; IVF lawsuit; donor drive
A Milwaukee woman has delivered her third child three weeks early — but she still weighed 13 pounds, 12 ounces (5.8 kg). The other two children in the Buzzell family were also large at birth and were dubbed “The Whopper” and “Whopper Jr” by their father. The latest arrival, Delaney Jessica, was nicknamed the “Big Enchilada”. She was nearly double the average birth weight.
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