DES MOINES, Iowa (AP\/Staff) \u2014 Two LeTourneau University graduates now living in Iowa are the parents of a boy weighing 13 pounds and 13 ounces – born without the aid of surgery. According to KETK, Asher Stewardson was born Thursday at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines, measuring 23\u00bd inches long. Fifteen months ago, his brother, Judah, arrived weighing 12 pounds and an ounce at birth. Mercy officials say only a tenth of 1 percent of all newborns weigh more than 11 pounds at birth.<\/p>\n
The boys’ mother, Kendall Stewardson, endured six hours of labor without an epidural injection. She says she and her husband, Joshua, wanted to avoid cesarean delivery because that wouldn’t have been good for her or Asher. According to information from the university, both parents graduated from LeTourneau in 2008, he with a computer science degree and she with a degree in biology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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