And even if your OB is right, 8lb is not exactly enormous! Overall size isn't an indication of much - it's more the head circumference that's an issue. Babies can be long and skinny, short and fat, skinny with a boof head...
I'm sure things will go just fine for you. I'm sorry your OB has worried you.
What a shame you have been made to worry over mere size... 8 pounds at that (which is not a big baby). When I think back over all the births I have heard and read about it seems to me that births to bigger babies on the whole seem to have been less painful and traumatic. I've heard of quite a few challenging births involving small babies... nowhere near as many big baby births (I'm talking of above 9 pounds). I've had 3 babies: 7, 8, 9 pounds in that order. My 7 pounder was the most painful. There are often stories in the newspaper about very petite asian women giving birth to very large babies... I think the largest was 14 pounds to a Chinese woman... and she birthed vaginally, no problems. There's a thread in the General News forum area... i'll give it a bump for you... go have a read.
If you look on the growth charts for babies, 8 pounds is actually the 75th percentile.
Meaning that 8lb babies are still well within the realms of "normal" for a newborn.
An 8, or even 9lb baby is not a "huge baby". It is a normal sized baby.
OB's frequently do get this wrong and trying to guess just by looking at you...well I don't think I really need to point out the accuracy of that method
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