Both my babies have big heads. It is genetic... Their heads always measure many percentile bands above the rest of them... Also measurements can be skewed with the angles the baby is too...
These things come with wide margins of error and it'll all change in the coming weeks anyway, so put it from your mind. If there was a problem, they would tell you.
Oh you are definitely not a bad mother!!!! If you are, then I am too . My DS had the most enormous head.......during our third trimester scans his head was in the 95th percentile, whereas the rest of him was in the 5th. And that's where he stayed for pretty much his first four months of life too. Fortunately his skinny little body caught up, but his head has always been big .
You are not starving your baby! I will however suggest that you take better care of yourself ..........it's good practice for when the baby arrives, because it's reeeeaaalllly hard then to find time/remember to eat, but it's really important to do so. If you have a naturopath, I would be having a chat to them about your concerns. We know that this baby I am currently carrying is small........as for whether it's too small, that remains to be seen until further monitoring, but my naturopath is really helpful, and a great support. I will do anything to help this bub come out big and strong!
Please don't blame yourself hun, your baby is fine.........hey, someone has to be in the 5th, don't they?
Sometimes my logic is overridden by niggly questions and I suppose I hadn't expected Aristotle to be small at all, so then of course I started wondering whether that was a bad thing, which then became worry about whether it was because of something I'd done. Ms Anxiety is my name!
Also, I have been trying really hard to eat well, but I'm having difficulty swallowing meat, and I have a tendency to binge on carbs. I have to keep reminding myself that I'm doing the best that I can (my mantra, learnt from my ANDA counselling) and that baby is fine. My big issue at the moment is some of my work involves being on the run for several hours at a time, and my pregnant body needs much more frequent snack breaks than I'm used to - it is about making new habits and getting used to my new needs.
Thanks again, feeling much better. Gonna go and eat now
Hun, it is hard to be busy and pregnant. One thing i always did was to carry snacks in my bag, like musili bars, dried fruit and nuts, a banana, and water, and that way I always had something on hand that was filling, and would give a quick energy boost.
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. My DS had the most enormous head.......during our third trimester scans his head was in the 95th percentile, whereas the rest of him was in the 5th. And that's where he stayed for pretty much his first four months of life too. Fortunately his skinny little body caught up, but his head has always been big
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