China's Bao Xishun, considered to be the world's tallest man, became a father
this week with the birth of his first child. Bao's baby boy came into the world
at 22 inches, a slightly above average height (most boy babies are between 19
and 20 inches long at birth), but more than half a foot shorter than the world
record of 29.5 set by a Chinese baby last year, according to the report. The boy
weighed 9.26 pounds, beating the average of 7 to 8 pounds.
Bao, a 7-foot-9-inch herdsman from Inner Mongolia, married Xia Shujuan, a
5-foot-6-inch pygmy, last year. Bao told the media previously that if he did
have a boy he hoped he'd stand about 6-foot-5 inches tall so that he could play
basketball, the report said.
Bao briefly lost his Guinness World Records title as the tallest man to
Ukrainian Leonid Stadnyk but regained it in August when Stadnyk refused to be
measured.