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.
I just want to say that you should trust your body hun. Don't let numbers worry you if you are healthy
I had a 5kg baby! I also had a 4+kg one and one that was 3.7kg. They had NO idea Ash (11lbs) was that big until I pushed him out (and wasn't ANY worse than the others!) and if they had of known then I am sure I would have been pushed into having a CS too. I've never had GD either.
The birth was nothing like I had imagined! I had a hind-water leak the night before he was born so I had to have my waters broken once I got to hospital, and my contractions hadn't started so I was put on Syntocinon. 14 hours later and he had finally arrived!
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