To think our baby surely can't be THAT big??

They know full well they aren't accurate, they don't live under a rock. But they love any excuse to micromanage a woman giving birth.

I've been told that it can be a pound either side, but the discrepancies for so many women are so vast that I think that's BS

I had a scan with my DD to check her size and the lady who did it told me "it's not very accurate, but it's the most accurate way we can check"

Which I think says it all really. It's the way they treat it like it's gospel truth that annoys me.

This poor mum has been essentially worried and bulled for weeks by these utter clowns and unsurprisingly it was for nothing. She won't be getting any kind of apology though, because she has a healthy baby so that's "all that matters"

Strawberrycheesecake7

last scan was 8.13lb and they said it wasn't as accurate as they'd like due to head being so far down - every two weeks the scan had measured the baby weighing one more pound from 32 weeks

baby was born at 9.3ilb 4 days later

Congratulations. That’s almost exactly the same weight my son was when he was born. After they swore he was at the 90th percentile and I needed to be induced before he got any bigger. I wonder if these growth scans are ever right. I’ve never heard of anyone’s baby being near the weight that was predicted.

My belly measured huge but I was having extra scans for medical reasons which measured the baby as average. He came out at 10lb//99th centile so the belly measurement was more accurate.

Fwiw I had a vag birth with episiotomy and forceps and everything bounced back. Labour cramps were worse than the manual manhandling of my bits and I doubt the size of the baby affected he strength of the contractions.

One way or another, you have to birth that baby and they will get your baby out! So just try to enjoy your pregnancy x

I don't think they've ever been right. I was told DD was average, she was 10lb.

I had 3 additional growth scans in my final trimester, all of them said the baby was big, both head circumference and abdominal and femur length. All between 85th-95th percentile. When she came out? Absolutely tiny, only on 9th percentile. I mentioned this to midwife afterwards and she admitted growth scans are very unreliable.

Congratulations OP!! 👶💐
Growth scans wrong again .. it’s a pity all the professionals can’t see how inaccurate these scans are - then maybe stop doing them and putting the fear into pregnant ladies!

My experience of this in 2 pregnancies is that they haven't got a clue what they're on about.
My DD was too small, then too big. She was 6lb 14oz at 39+5

My son was "too big" too. He was 7lb 8oz bang on term.,,

Congratulations!

I had the opposite to you.
At 30 weeks I was measuring about 24 fundal height and it got worse. I had small for date scans that said she'd be tiny.
6lb 14oz, and the same length as her sister who was just over 1lb bigger.

Congratulations

What a surprise, the growth scans were completely wrong

Ah Congratulations!! So glad everything went well for you and after all that he wasn’t the giant they were predicting!! Enjoy those newborn snuggles💙

Exactly this

Well I look forward to hearing how big your baby actually is

I wouldn't be listening to these clowns that's for sure

I think that makes sense- my friend had an early induction for a baby measuring large- turned out he was just (and still is) very tall, top of the height charts- weight wise he was only about 8lb.

@nextdoornightmares I look forward to your update, I expect you'll have plenty of time 😉.

My mum was told I would be big, I was born premature at 3lbs ish
Then they said my growth would be stunted and I would always be small
Then age 2 they started panicking how tall I was going to be, predicting 6ft 4
I'm 5ft 10...

Growth scans are rubbish.

dc1 I was told ‘you’re hiding it very well, babies going to be a good 7lb (I was 5’2 7 stone wet through 😆) .. cue my 5lb baby at birth.
dc2 had a few growth scans after being told baby is small. Then told baby was big towards the end .. cue 7lb baby at birth.

Take it all with a pinch of salt 😉

Create some mantras / birth affirmations you can believe in.... like:
"My body is made to birth this baby"
"I trust my body to know what to do"
"My body was made to do this"
"I'm amazing, I'm growing a small human!"
"I am a force to be reckoned with!"
"My baby will come when my baby is ready"

Lots of mums find affirmations very powerful in grounding me during some of the anxious points of pregnancy and labour and the post natal period.

I was told Ds1 would be around 7lb, he was born at 41 weeks weighing only 5lb 14 oz, no idea why he was do small
Had extra growth scans because of this for ds2 and he was 8lb 4oz🤷‍♀️

My baby measured on the 94th centile at the 20 and 28 week scans, on the 88th centile at the 32 week scan and 72nd centile at the 36 week scan.

He was born on the 25th centile at 40+4!

My 5lb 10 baby was thought to be LGA, because I'm petite myself they wanted to induce at 38 weeks.

Difficult labour but baby was tiny.

My friend had an easy water birth, went home two hours after delivery and her baby was 10lb.

There's no rhyme or reason to it and growth scans don't tell you much.