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Sporty children are more likely to be born in the autumn and winter months, according to one of the biggest studies of childhood reported in The Guardian.

Researchers at Bristol University found that children born in the springwere the most sluggish, followed by summer-borns.

A baby boy weighing 14lb 8oz has been born to a 5ft-tall woman fromManchester, reported the Daily Mail. At 37 weeks of pregnancy,first-time mother Sara Herman was admitted to hospital because the babywas barely moving. Ms Herman said, 'I was taken straight down for acaesarean. The doctors actually gasped when they brought him out.'Doctors had to move the baby, named Jack, who has a condition calledhyperinsulism, to a bigger incubator.

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