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

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Posting here for traffic mostly but also feeling a bit 😬 and looking for people who have experienced similar (and can maybe tell me the hospital got it wrong)

Basically I'm 27 weeks pregnant, 4th baby, and have been told I'm measuring 30 weeks by fundal height which I initially disregarded until I had a scan today and they told me baby was measuring 2lb 10oz putting him on the 91st centile line. I don't have big babies generally. The rest of them have been on the smaller side although our twins were premature they were still just below average for gestation up until they were born and our 3rd baby was only 6lb 13oz when she was born at 39 weeks.

Is there any chance they've got this wrong?They only use abdomen and head measurements at this hospital. They don't also use the femur length for growth scans.
There has been some chat of gestational diabetes and I have a GTT on Monday!

I always thought growth scans were really inaccurate but mine was very accurate I had a last minute extra growth scan due to complications and they estimated she was 8 pounds and was born at 6lb10oz, have you need tested for Gestational diabetes?

I was having a ten pound plus baby, he needed to be induced at 37 weeks, I got them to hold off (scans every few days with emphasis on the need to get him out as I'm tiny). He was induced at 40 weeks and weighed less than 9 pounds. Now at 21 years old he is huge.

Are you and/or partner tall? my last baby was measuring 'massive' but arrived at around the 7.5lbs mark but was very tall! The measurements they make on a scan are indicative only and not necessarily the actual reality. However checking for gestational diabetes isn't a bad thing!

Scan said my dd was going to be over 13lb, she was actually 8lb 1/2 oz

DS1 was a long, lean 8lb10 at 39+5. My fundus was the equivilent of 45 weeks pg. I had a few growth scans along the way and DS was averagely large. At the final MW check she sighed at the fundus measurement and plotted off near the title above the graph and supposed it was just my normal. It was only a few days after the last growth scan.

I outgrew half my maternity clothes at the end of the second trimester and very little covered my body by the end... which was a tad awkward in the December that was entirely frozen up!

Size 8 with a 43" waist was an interesting look

They told me a couple weeks ago (at 28 weeks) that my baby had a large abdomen (GTT was clear) and that he was 91st centile in terms of abdomen but 65th centile overall? I asked what the margin error is and they said 20% so I’ve decided to take it with a pinch of salt!!

i had a whopper baby
baby no 2
he was medically classed as a giant birth

we even made our local paper
article and pictures because of his size and the fact he shouldn't technically been conceived as i have severe PCOS and never had a period(im 43 and half and still never had a period)

he was 11lb11oz and 29 inches
8 days over, 12 hr labour
natural birth but horrendous delivery

he was a clomid baby that took 4 years and i found out at 2 and half weeks

from first scan at 8 weeks he measured weeks ahead for what he was
i know the night i conceived and he was measuring 4-5 weeks before
which i knew was wrong and impossible

i went so big very early i looked full term by 18/19 weeks

i got so big by 41 weeks(they refused a c section as he wasn't in danger)i went from a 14 to a 34 and up to N cup

i put on 7 st

he's just turned 14 (july) and 6ft 2 and 12 st 8 already size 12 shoe
3/4 way through puberty

been head and shoulders above his age literally since birth

as i had a bad birth and needed a operation straight after i had to stay in for 2 days and every medical person at the hospital came up to see us
we were the talk of the place

he was also a very greedy baby
11oz bottle from feed one
by 8 weeks on 16 oz(full bottle and another half)

this went on to every hour and half and needed hungry baby milk

by 5 months i put him on cows milk and weened as he was about 25 llbs and milk wasn't enough

I'm 6ft.his dad 5ft 6
i was 27 inches born

my first son was 28 inches born as well
I've only had 2 but i grow massive babies

I was told (by consultant) that I was having an average sized baby (7lb - 7 1/2 lb). 4 days later I gave birth to a 9lb baby. It’s all very much best guess 🙄

My first baby they said would be big- she was 7lb 8. My next two was told they'd be average sized and they were both around 10lb so i'm not convinced. I think sometimes a tall baby will be estimated higher weight.

(Just to add i'm very short and petite and had very easy labours with the boys, quick and only gas and air, much easier than with my small first baby).

How was yours accurate if your baby was a different weight to what they estimated or have I read it wrong?

They told me my second baby was going to be huge. He was 7lb 15. Not tiny but massive by any stretch of the imagination.

@YellowphantGrey it wasn't far off is what I mean .

Told me DD would be about 7lb I was just fat, DD was 10lb 4.

There's quite a big chance they've got it wrong. I did have gestational diabetes and had extra growth scans at the end of my pregnancy because of it. My son consistently measured at the 90th percentile on all of them. I was induced at 39 weeks because they were concerned that if he got any bigger I would need a c section. When he was born it was discovered he was actually only at the 49th percentile and I was just carrying more fluid than they thought. My "big" baby was only 7 lbs 4 ounces.

I was told DS would be 7lb6oz ish. He was 8lb 13oz 😆

@BogRollBOGOF sounds similar to me - DS was long and lean. I’m 5'11", DH is 6'0" and our brothers are 6'5" and 6'2" so I think he's just designed to be long and thin!

Maternity tops didn't cover my bump for the last few weeks; luckily it was a May heatwave so I just let it all hang out 😂

my first baby was 8lbs 9oz... i was told my 2nd was going to be bigger... my 2nd weighed in at just 6lb's

I was told my first was going to be about 8lbs.

He's was 10lbs 8oz.

Dc1 they wanted to induce me at 40 weeks as they said he was measuring big (over 7.3lbs estimated- which didn’t sound that big to me anyway 🤷‍♀️)
I wanted to refuse but thought following medical advice was the best thing- they all kept going on about how big he was and in a panicky way!
I actually went into spontaneous labour that evening at home (induction scheduled for following day!) and he was born just 6lbs. So well under what they had estimated on the scan!

They then made me have extra scans with dc2 as they said dc1 was a low birth weight! I felt like I couldn’t win! So I would take any scans with a pinch of salt - it is just an estimate

I was told dd was about 8 and a half pounds after a scan the day before she was born.

She was 6lb 6oz.

Meh. I had two baby, vahinal births, no intervention, 10lb 5oz both of them. Always measured ahead, always large on growth scans. No GD. Consultant just kept saying, you are growing big babies, they'll be fine. And they were. As was I. I'm not big myself, or overweight. Completely average.

My second was 9lb 4oz but he wasn't a big chunker, he was just very long and skinny!

There are different kinds of "big babies".

I had a growth scan with my 4th at around 35 weeks. I was asked about the birth weights of my 3 children (7lb 15oz, 6lb 15oz & 7lb 3oz) and was told that this one would be much bigger and closer to 10lb.
He was born at 39+5 and weighed 6lb 4oz!

I got induced a week early as they said my baby's head was off the chart big (above the 100th percentile) and would be over 10 pounds. I had a lot of scans too as they were so worried. He was born on his due date (as the induction didn't work) and he was 8.2 pounds with average head size. Since then loads of people have told me they were either predicted too small or too big and the scans were wrong. They might be right but I'd take it with a pinch of salt. Good luck!

I mean they're wildly wrong all the time.

Also 91st isn't that mad. Out of 100 babies lined up smallest to biggest, there would be 8 babies bigger than yours.