My mum is shorter than 5' and one of my brothers was 10lb when he was born! So while there might be some kind of link, there's always exceptions. Oh, and he was delivered naturally with no interventions
ETA: I'm a firm believer that your body doesn't grow a baby that you can't give birth to (provided you have the right support, info, etc). If nothing else, it doesn't make sense for survival of the species (ie. us!) if we grow babies we can't birth...
I wouldn't stress too much. With technology today they will be able to tell if your baby will be too big for your pelvis and can arrange for alternate arrangements regarding your birth.
I was born 7lb 10oz
DH- 7lb 11oz
DD- 7lb 12oz
DS- 9lb!
Then I have baby to be so hopefully it's not over 9lb cause to tell you the truth that [I]really hurt!
At the end of the day as long as your baby is born healthy, it doesnt matter if it was born vaginally with a comfy fit or by c-section cause it couldn't fit. Good Luck!
I was born 6lb 6oz and 47 cm, DD was born 6lb 7 oz and 46cm so we were almost identical in size. DP was 7lb 5oz and about 50cm. If genetics have a link then it would be unlikely that I would have a big baby.
However I kept being told I was having a bigger than average baby due to how big my belly was - but the OB couldn't have been more wrong
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