4+ kg Baby? How accurate can docs be?

[Miss.September]

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.

Corelly x

[Trillian]

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.

[Nai]

I was told that DD1 would be a larger baby but she arrived weighing 2.9kg (6lb7oz) to the surprise of the OB who exclaimed "Hmm more petite than I anticipated". Meanwhile DD2 was estimated to be about the same size as DD1 and arrived being a little pudding at 3.8kg (8lb6oz) !!! Once again to the OB's surprise.

FWIW - I was 6lb5oz at birth so DD1 was the size I anticipated but DD2 was much bigger, however most of her weight was fat, she had rolls of it!

[Grake]

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..

I totally agree the docs tell me this like its going to be a life threatening problem or something. I am just going to let my body tell me whats right for me.

[Trillian]

If you do that, then you can't go wrong

[~clover~]

My DD1 was 7lb 5oz. Next time around my gp thought DD2 would be a bit smaller, as I was measuring smaller for dates than I had with DD1, but she came into the world at 8lb 9oz! My biggest bub so far This time I might just break the 4 kilo's (DD2 was 15g off & DS was 60g off) but I'm not bothered at all

[Traveller]

My sis had an elective section as she was told to expect a 10lb+ baby. Her gorgeous daughter was only 8lb2oz. I was told my babies were around 6lbs, and they were both over 8lb. By the time it came to the twins I gave up wanting too know beforehand and just got busy giving birth

[PollyA]

Would love to know how its going as you approach your due dateope all your birthing dreams come true!