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.