Yep! I was HUGE with DS! At 30wks I looked like I was ready to pop at any time, and I was always measuring so far ahead it's not funny. At 15wks I looked like I was 25wks, and at my 30wk checkup I was told he seemed like he was going to be a big baby, probably aboud 3 and a half kilos.
He was born at 3.18kgs or 7lb exactly. Don't worry about what the dr says, just remember it's only an estimate
my scans were accurate for all my kids
they told me my 3rd would be 4kg plus if i went full term- however my body told me he was ready at 37+5 and he was delivered naturally /no drugs/ no probs and weight 3.6kg- so he would possibly be over 4kg if i went full term. They tried to scare me with the size as well but it never got a chance to be an issue- i wasnt worried- i knew my body would only bake a baby big enough for my body to birth!
btw its the size of the head that is the ouch rather than the baby's weight lol
good luck
My OB said they could be out by up to 10% either way. We had a growth scan at 36 & 38 weeks with different operators and they were almost spot on for the final weight, no GD & first bub but he was big.
I know someone who was told she was having an 8 pound bub but ended up being 11+ so they can be way off!
I wouldn't be letting them push you into a c/s or an induction if you are not comfortable with it. My OB was happy to let me go to full term.
The scans are often wrong but more importantly you don't have GD like you said, your body is making your baby and there is no reason to think you can't have this baby
My first was 4kg on the dot and Asynciltic (wonky and hard to push out (similar to posterior) I had her all on my own
My second who is a beautiful big bouncing boy is 7 weeks old and was 4.81kg, again no intervention necessary and it was definitely an easier birth than my first
No matter what size your baby you can give birth if thats what you want don't let anyone take the chance away on an inaccurate test.
Take all the positive stories hear as your sheild and don't let your doctors scare you into an elective C-section unless that is what you want.
My friend had her baby 2 days after me, they guessed (with ultrasound) that he would be 4.6kg and he was 3.7kg. Wildly off.
Also I have been present for a number of births and there is something about big babies...they are often easier births. In my mothers group the person with the most horror birth story was the woman who had a 6lb bub.
You can do it!
You really can!
And there will be help IF you need it!
And...my big beautiful boy is such an easy baby...many people have told me big babies are often easy... so embrace the idea of a big healthy bub! sounds great to me!
I work as a midwife and recently a woman came in to birth at term and her scan at 38weeks (2weeks before delivery) estimated bub to be 5kilos. We were expecting a big bub and he popped out a healthy 3.4kilos. Then only a little while later another lady came in and the estimated weight was 3.5kilos only a few days before and he came out 5.7kilos (13lbs)
A lot of scans are accurate and alot are not. Agreed 4kilos isn't big. Yeah its bigger then average. Humans are getting bigger as are babies. When your birthing its not going to make much difference if bub is 5lb or 10lb.
I had an ultrasound the day before my c-section. They estimated my son to weigh 7 pounds 6 ounces. He came out weighing 7 pounds 7 ounces. They can be very accurate. It depends a little bit on the skill and experience of the ultrasound tech.
Grake, apparently a good indicator of the size of your bub is how big you were born. This is what my Ob told me. One of the first questions he asked me was how big I was born. So we were told from very early on that we would be have a largish bub. My sister also had big bubs.
I was told I was having a BIG baby by my ob and the concern was that I have a small pelvis - would she fit? Instead, I had a 7lb 13oz (3.5kg) DD ala natural with no epidural
Try not to worry, hon. There's nothing you can do about it, there's no absolute, so just enjoy your last few weeks and then you get to meet your precious baby for the first time.
What really bugs me is that they think it is a good idea to even talk about the possible size of the baby while you are pg. You are fine until someone says those magic words 'big baby' and then everyone starts panicing and there is no need for it. If you were never told the 'guesstimated' size of your baby, you would go about the rest of your pg and then your birth blissfully unaware and unaffected and you would Just. Give. Birth. My dr told me with my last baby that he would be at least 4kg, and I said 'bring it on!' I had already had two babies over 4kg and it didn't phase me to have another one that size or bigger. He was born 4.56kg I reckon the more women that have larger size babies the better as it stops some of the fear surrounding them kwim?
I don't know if you are predisposed to have large babies. My Mum had large babies, biggest was nearly 11lb and 62cm and the smallest was nearly 9lb - 4 weeks early! I was nearly 10lb. My mum is tiny - very small hips and she is just over 5ft tall. So based on that I wasn't ever worried about having a large baby. When my sister was pg (mums biggest bub) we were all hanging out to know how much she would weigh, but she was only a tiny 7lb2 and 52cm, which you could call very small considering the size of my sister - she is 6ft1. Me on the other hand I am an average 5ft 7 and my smallest was 3.85kg. I only ever had the possible size mentioned to me with my last baby and it was liberating not to have that hanging over me for the first three.
I was told at the 36wk scan my baby was in the 90th percentaile. They then told me they are accurate give or take about 500gr I think. Anyhoo, freaked me out. My Ob was really encouraging though. Told me I could do it! Anyway, I was induced at 40w+6. After 8 hours, strong regular contractions I was only 3 cm dilated and DS was starting to show signs of feotal distress. Ended up having a c-section and DS was 4.52kilos. However, my problem was that ds couldn't get his head down into my pelvis to cause me to dilate. Noah did not have a big head (50th%), turns out I am fairly fine boned and have a small pelvis. If my pelvis hadn't been a problem I would have had a damn good go at pushing my little man out. I think that if you listen to your midwives and do all the things you can to help your bubs get down and out, size is irrelevant. My mum had more problems delivering me at 8 pound than she had delivering my brother at 9.5pound.
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