Big fundal height variance....how common is it?

[Ozziehoffy]

Verdict from today's midwife app. Fundal height measuring 40... oh yay! I'm currently 34 wks 3 days. I guess there is an upside... they obviously aren't majorly worried cos I am getting a scan but that's in 2 weeks - so can't be urgent. She seems to think that it's more likely to be combination of fluid and my muscle separation so that the baby isn't being held up and in but looser so it's not giving an accurate measurement. Last app. it measured 2 weeks ahead... I think I was 31 wks and it was 33 fundal. I don't know how to feel right now, should I be worried or not and I want to cry but that's probably a combinaton of stuff and hormones.

I know that if my dates are out (say I got one AF at start but was pg) then the baby will come of it's own accord prob before 2 wks anyway...but what I don't want is another c/s ... they can't induce me if they think it's growing too fast/big or whatever cos I've had a c/s before.

How many have had such a huge variance in a fundal height measurement??

Mel (Arimeh), hun thanks for your msg earlier too.

Alan is it common??

[Pandora]

Is it the same midwife measuring you at each appt?
It can also be due to the babies position as much as other reasons.

[Ozziehoffy]

No, different midwives... 2 different ones today and both getting same measurement of 40. They did say it could be partly due to the muscle separation ... the baby could be in positons which appear bigger cos it's not held in as tight.

[Willow]

I was always ahead a few weeks in fundal height with DS and was told this was common in subsequent pregnancies.

For what it's worth, my ob hardly ever measured it, I don't think it's that big of a deal, just an indication.

[Pandora]

Thats a good point Willow. I remember my OB last tiem saying it didnt really matter what the measurement was, it was more important that it was increasing.

[~clover~]

I was always at least a week or 2 ahead with all of mine
DD2 measured smaller than DD1, but was born over a pound bigger!

[~*Niadalla*~]

Yep, at 34 weeks last pregnancy I measured 44 weeks. LOL

DS was 4.02kgs.... not ridiculously huge like they wanted me to believe.