To ask about your experience of giving birth to a big baby?

[bgmama]

Hello, I am in the 37th week of pregnancy and my doctor is telling me that I am carrying a very big baby. This has been confirmed by ultrasounds, although I know they are not an exact science. I already have a child, which was born a few years ago without any complications and I was hoping it would be the same with this one. Can I ask how was your labour if your baby was big? Did you have any complications and did you have to be induced or have an EMCS due to the size of the baby? So far my doctor has a ‘wait and see‘ approach, which I am happy with, but I am also worried, as I would really like to avoid a c-section. I should add I don't live in the UK, so the care I receive is a bit different here. Also, did your baby turn out to be as big as expected when it was born, because I have heard that the scan can very often get it wrong.

In my experience growth scans aren’t particularly accurate, as stated by a number of people here. Don’t rule out a CS - I had to have one (no choice) with my second and if I ever had another baby (which I won’t because two is more than enough for me!) I would 100% choose a CS again. I had a much easier time of it. I may have been lucky but it really wasn’t an issue for me and I was driving again very quickly. I could have driven after a week if I had needed to. Maybe I was lucky!