A baby girl weighing 13.4 pounds was born Friday at the University Hospital in Leipzig, Germany. Amazingly, Jasleen was born without a C-section. The German newspaper Der Spiegel reports that Jasleen is being cared for in the hospital’s neonatal care unit.

“We still decided to try a natural birth, as a child of this size and [with] the excess weight of the mother, a cesarean section would have been associated with significant risk,” Professor Holger Stepan, director of obstetrics at the hospital, said in a statement translated by ABC News.

The Mayo Clinic notes that C-sections carry a number of risks to you and your baby. Risks to the baby include breathing problems and surgical injury, while risks to you include increased bleeding, blood clots and a number of other health complications.

According to a news release from the University Hospital in Leipzig, the mother was dealing with undiagnosed gestational diabetes that led to Jasleen being born at a greater birth weight.

The American Diabetes Association points out that many women develop gestational diabetes during the 24th week of their pregnancy. However, a diagnosis of gestational diabetes doesn’t mean that you had diabetes before you conceived your child, or that you will have diabetes after giving birth. The ADA notes that untreated or undiagnosed gestational diabetes can negatively impact your baby.

Citing the Guinness Book of World Records, the New York Daily News notes that Jasleen is not the biggest baby ever born. The title belongs to Anna Bates of Canada. In 1879, Bates gave birth to a 23 lb. 12 oz. baby boy who died several hours later. However, Jasleen was certainly the biggest baby ever born in Germany. The record was previously held by a baby boy named Jihad. Jihad weight 13 lb.

How did the mother’s case of gestational diabetes go undiagnosed? Share your thoughts in the comments section.

Check out the Daily Mail’s list of the largest babies ever recorded.