Ananova:

The world's tallest man has become the world's tallest father.

Bao Xishun, 57, a 7ft 9ins herdsman of Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, China, had his first baby after a year of marriage to 5ft 6ins Xia Shujuan, 29.

Their son weighed 9lbs 4oz at birth was 1ft 10ins long, according to doctors at Zunhua Hospital in Hebei province..

Although slightly taller than average for newborn children, Mr Bao's boy came up well short of the 29.5 inches record birth length last year, also in China.

"Mr Bao is quite happy. The baby is healthy and a normal size," the hospital's senior doctor Zhang said.

"I hope he or she can be about two metres tall," Mr Bao, 57, said last year about his wishes for a child. "Then he or she can play basketball."

Mr 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 under new guidelines.