BUMMER on the stress!

I might be able to help a bit. I had the opposite problem actually. If you put my DS and your bub together they would book end the chart!! Mine was and still is around the 3%. We had intrauterine growth retardation with 2 vessel cord, threatened pre-term labor, reversal of flow along the umbilical AND baby with complicated heart defects.

SOOO we had weekly growth scans from around 28 weeks. Long story short - two consecutive weeks bubs showed loss of wt and under stress with continued contrax (from 24 wks). So he was born via non-labouring section.

NOW - the bit you might be interested in is this - he was born at 1.66kg (3pd 10oz) at 36 weeks and I was told that morning that he weighted 250g more than that. Doesn't sound like a lot but its a pretty big % of his body weight.

ALSO - there are two different calculations they can use to work out the estimated wt. I had to check with the technician doing the scans that they were using the same technique to work out the wt as the previous week - so as not to get a dodgy reading.

As for how big bubs should be for average, I have also been told by OB that bubs was around the size of a 30 week bub. He just had a hard time in-utero.

Hope that helps...