4+ kg Baby? How accurate can docs be?

[Chocaholic]

Your body knows what it is doing, honestly.

Dr told me my first son was going to be "huge". He was 4.3kg so a big baby but they were surprised he wasn't bigger. According to all the measurements, he was supposed to be almost 5kg. He was induced as I was almost 2 weeks overdue and I had him naturally with only a small amount of tearing due to his positioning.

My second son was, in the Drs terms, was going to be a "Gigantor but that seems to be what you body produces" . Apparently he was going to be at least 5kgs because he was measuring bigger than DS1. He was born naturally and he weighed 3.4kg.

So to answer your question, ignore the Drs as they can be wrong. Follow your instincts.

[Schmickers]

So much has to do with the size of your pelvis as well - and that's not just the width of your hips, it's the size of your pelvic outlet. The shape of the inner bones of your pelvis can have an enormous influence on the birth of your baby. The midwife at our first birth was the shortest, slimmest person I ever met, and she gave birth to some large babies! She told us once she had a back injury, and when they were doing x-rays, they discovered she didn't have a coccyx (tailbone) making her pelvic outlet much larger.

The body works in mysterious ways, but overall, it does work.