Is there any correlation between pregnancy size and baby size?

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With only 5 wks to go know I'm being silly but was wondering if there seems to be any correlation between the size of your bump or weight gain during pregnancy and the size of the baby at birth.
Did you end up having similar sized babies to your mother/grandmother as I have heard baby size follows down the mothers side.

katchat you don't live in London do you. I said those exact words to a girl at my gym and felt awful as soon as it came out my mouth.

I was a 29 week baby weighing 3 and a half pounds, brother was 34 weeks weighing 7lbs. My mum keeps telling me I will have a premature baby as all the women in our family go early. She says I should tell the midwife this but I don't think I will be the same. Does anyone know if having premature babies is hereditary?

Both my sister and I were born 7 weeks early but my son was only born 9 days early so I don't think it is hereditary. My mother warned me again this time (I am 37 weeks pregnant) but I felt like saying that I am not a carbon copy of her!

My biggest baby (DD at 9lb 13), I put on the least amount of weight - I actually weighed less after giving birth than I did when I got pregnant. Bloody morning sickness!

DS1 was 8 and a half pounds and I had such a neat tidy bump
DS2 was 9 and a half pounds and I was the biggest pregnant woman anyone had ever seen - even the midwife said, "ummm, yes, you are very big, but I have seen bigger. But then, that was twins"
I was in a meeting at work and someone stopped midsentence and said "God that baby's big" and then carried on! Very disconcerting

thanks think it's just my mum relating everything back to when she was pregnant - does anyone else get really annoyed with that? she told me tonight that bottle feeding is much better than breastfeeding??!!!

Just got back from my Mum's house and my aunty was there - her daughter's just had a baby . Aunty said to me "I think she should put her on solids..."
Poor baby is 8 weeks.
I think they forget that things may have changed in the 30+ years since they had babies!

and they all smoked and drank back then too!

IME, no! I was huge when pregnant (and still am ) and dd was tiny