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!

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.

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 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!

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.

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

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

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.

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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

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"

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.