Worried I'm going to have a massive baby

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Currently expecting DC2. DD was fairly small (6lb1). However with that pregnancy I had horrendous sickness and could barely keep anything down for the first half of the pregnancy. Even when I did eventually eat I didn't have the biggest appetite.
This time round I have had sickness but have found the easiest way to control it was to eat regularly. Whilst I have been eating lots of fruit/ veg I am annoyed at myself because I have also been giving into cravings of basically crap (cakes, biscuits etc). I feel bigger/a lot more uncomfortable this time. Also DC2 seems a lot stronger than what I remember with DD. His kicks can sometimes borderline uncomfortable. I'm convinced he is going to be a much bigger baby and it's making me nervous about the birth.
Did anyone find one of their babies where much heavier? What do you think caused it? Was the birth much harder?

I had a 9lb 6oz baby and a 10lb 12oz baby.

I ate healthier during pregnancy with the 10lb 12oz baby but he was still bigger. The labour, delivery and recovery were much easier than they were with the 9lb baby.

I've only just had no. 1, but women often report getting bigger sooner with no. 2 as your stomach muscles have already stretched and so meet less resistance. As a result you tend to "pop" sooner with subsequent pregnancies.

As well with your DD it seems like you had very bad sickness which probably took up a lot of your headspace. Now you've found a way to manage it with this pregnancy you're maybe more able to really think about things like size and movement. Remember too that things like the baby's or the placenta's position can really effect how much you feel.

If you're really concerned speak to your midwife, but they're also monitoring baby's size. Anecdotally I was measuring above the 95 centile the whole way through my pregnancy (to the extent I was casually asked if I'd had a GD test at my 38w appointment) and the baby's kicks and cervix-headbutting were pretty violent. DD arrived at a completely average 7lb 15oz.

DS2 was a big baby, and is now a big 4 year old. I don't think it was anything to do with what I ate - I think he's just big! The birth was easier than with (medium-sized) DS1. There are lots of things that can make a birth difficult, and I'm not sure how much of a factor the size of the baby is. I did tear with DS2 quite a lot but that was also about the speed he came out at (no time for episiotomy), and I was stitched up fine, no problems recovering.

If you do end up with a big (heavy) baby, look after your back and your knees! But the advantage is that as they grow, they tend to "fit" things more quickly (buggies, high chairs, ride-along toys etc.)

Also - just reading PP - I had no idea he was going to be big until he actually came out. Its really hard to tell.

My first baby was a lb heavier than my second. Like you I was convinced my second baby was going to be huge as I had heard second baby tends to be heavier (not sure if that’s actually true or just one of those myths). Plus my bump got much bigger much sooner (think that’s to do with the muscles).

However baby no 2 was a lb smaller even though I was overdue. With my first I tore but with baby number two I tore AND had to have an episiotomy.

I guess that’s my clumsy way of saying you can’t predict these things! Also, a bigger baby doesn’t automatically mean a more difficult birth.

All the best!