Nearly everyone I have know to be told that "your having a big baby" hasnt I I didnt either.
My Ob now wois very pro natural labour - measure with the tape then basically dismisses it - he says that he measures to make sure the bub is growing BUT you dont know how big a bub is going to be till its born! And my MW is the same.
In a way I think my OB is silently cheering me - but he may not be working on the day. He knows full well the difference between my dating scan vs the consistency between my 12 wk and 18 wk scans (both which show me a week earlier) and he opted to let me keep the 'extra week' EDD; and last appt he said "yes, I can see you've grown dramatically" and didn't even pick up the measuring tape.....
Yeah I measured 2 weeks ahead at my last appointment but my Ob didnt even bat an eye lid and didnt even mention it to me! I only knew as I was reading in my VMR when I got home!
I measured a week and a half ahead today. My midwife didn't mention it. Could be the baby's positioning. Could be a growth spurt. Could be a bit of extra fluid. Could be lots of things other than a sign the baby is too big.
i measured all over the place with DD,mainly way too small they basically said they didnt think she make it she would be less than 4 pounds full term and her stomach was way too small bla bla so they brought her on just over a week early worried she wasnt getting nourished properly and she was 5 pound 5 and perfect so if she went to full term or over she could of been 6 pound or even 7!!anyway im getting the same thing this time and im so annoyed at myself for having an early scan as theyve said "possible down syndrome"because i thought i was 6 weeks 4 days and they saying i was 5 weeks 4 days how can they know soemthing so early??and why stress me when i have to wait so long for the nt scan anyway??sorry that turned into a bit of a vent but im wondering the same,a few people i know were brought on early as told they were having a really big baby but were only 7 pounders???
I am measuring 4cm ahead with my fundal height and on the ultrasound my baby is showing measurements of 4 weeks ahead also. It's a load of bollocks and gives no real impression at all of what is going on. I can say that with confidence because this is my third pregnancy where I have measured so far ahead of my dates and been told that I am having a 'whooper'.
My first massively ginormous, oversized baby was born weighing 3.8kg (8 pound 9 or something like that) and my second even bigger whopper of a baby was born weighing 4.1kg (9 pound something - she was also born via c/section due to being breech and when she left special care 24 hours later, her weight had dropped to 3.8kg so I wonder if she was just full of a lot of fluid that didn't get squeezed out when she was born).
My babies are not small by any stretch but they are also not the behemoth babies that the hospital tells me that I am having.
On the flip side, I have had friends who have been told that their babies are incredibly small for dates only to have them born at 38 weeks weighing over 5kg, measuring 59cm with a head circumfrence of 39cm. They don't take into account much about body shape. My two friends that have had this happen were both incredibly tall women who had a lot of room to carry their babies.
There are sooo many factors that come into it, fundal height, not particularly accurate as an esitmating baby size, because everyone carries differently, baby's position etc.
Scan measurements, depends on the sonographer, and baby's position etc to get a "good" measurement. But there have been heaps who have been told oh you are having a big bay and in the end they pop out at a pretty average size....
I don't think there is a heap of value in getting them done, unless there is a medical need, ie issues that may be causing growth restriction, or too much growth (GD), when the babies health is an issue, even then we would generally be doing them fortnightly. I think by telling mum that you are having a bigger baby is really just putting doubt in the mothers mind, when she is most likely completely capable of delivering a bigger baby. A bit of scaremongering....
I had quite a few growth scans throughout my pregnancy with DD2 due to all the complications but we weren't concerned if bub was measuring behind was more important about mine was the variation between the different measurements, HC/BPD/FL generally you want them to be all about the same, but as I had low PAPPA DD2 was being monitored to make sure things weren't growing out of proportion, when they did it indicated that she was not receiving enough nutrients. The disproportioned mesurements did correlate when she was born, her waist/belly/bum were tiny 00000 pants wouldn't stay up, with a nappy, even a cloth nappy, yet she was 2.7 born and 2.4 at her lowest, so not that small YKWIM and her head was measuring much larger, but her length on par....
You and your body are completely capable aof delivering your baby what ever the size he/she is
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