Overview
- Shelby Martin’s son, Cassian, weighed 12 pounds, 14 ounces (about 5.8 kg) at birth in Nashville’s TriStar Centennial Women’s Hospital.
- The delivery was by C-section, and the newborn spent a short time in the NICU with IV support, oxygen, and glucose monitoring reported.
- TriStar Centennial called the delivery “a beautiful reminder of resilience and love,” and the mother publicly thanked the care teams.
- Martin’s TikTok posts documenting her pregnancy and newborn have drawn more than 4 million likes and tens of thousands of comments.
- Outlets described Cassian as a hospital record-setter but cited conflicting timeframes, and those record claims have not been independently verified.