39 weeks plus and midwife etc keeps telling me I have HUGE baby on the way. Any experience?

[LiliAnjelika]

I'm measuring 44 weeks plus at 39 weeks and was due to give birth at a local midwifery unit but I'm now being advised to give birth at hospital because my baby is potentially huge. Agree it's probably a good idea to be on safe side but I'm now officially terrified! My first baby was 8lb10oz so not tiny...but this is something else. Any experience?

I know a lady who gave birth to a 9lb+ baby on the loo as she didn't realise she was in labour until too late! Doesn't sound like a long, hard labour to me!

That wasn't supposed to belittle the situation btw, but to reassure.

ds was 10lb 8oz. I was told he would be about 8lb! Sure I would have been concerned if I had known what size he was but he was a far easier labour and birth than his elder sister who was 7lb 7oz. He was also a great baby who took to feeding very easily.

Good luck and all the best

I was in a very similar situation to you. Fundus measuring huge, 36 week scan to check the size of the baby came back 99th centile, I was due to give birth to a pelvis splitting whopper. Midwives and doctors were tutting and saying that a homebirth wasn't a good idea because of shoulder dystocia etc.

DD was born, exactly on the 50th centile. I think what happened is the midwives and sonographer took one look at my DH and I and decided that there was no way we'd have a small baby 'cos we're both big people. I suspect it was mostly unconscious bias, but either was they were very wrong.

Scans in the 3rd trimester are notoriously unreliable, 60% I believe. Don't get bullied into something you don't feel comfortable about because of speculations on the size of your baby. They don't know jack sh*t.

I measured big with DS1, he was 10lb 9.5oz, now measuring 2 weeks bigger with second baby, so expecting another big one!

They are so inaccurate. I measured the right number of weeks but had a scan at 37 weeks because they thought DS was breach. The sonographers words were "he's no tinkerbell" and estimated his weight at birth would be approx 9lbs. Fair enough I thought, me and DH are tall. DS came out (2 weeks overdue admittedly) at 12lb 12oz, nearly had a blinking heart attack!

Hi Lili, Try not to worry about it, as you can see from the posts here scans are quite unreliable. I measured huge and had to see a consultant to decide whether to induce or have a c section. DS arrived naturally at 40+4 at a long and slim 9lb 7oz, so by no means "huge"! Birth was fine, needed a ventouse but no big drama. I seem to have had the easiest time of all my friends who had much much smaller babies. Like curiouscat says, the big'uns are great feeders!

DS was 10lb 9oz and much easier than DD who was 2lb lighter!

I was measuring massive for dates but had polyhydramnios but even so, they told me they were worried about the size of my baby and not just the mw - the consultant too.

He was just under 7lbs. Where's a rolling eyes emoticon when you need one eh?

i had the opposite, in all three of my pregnancies i have measured small for dates and they were worried the baby was small, had extra scans they estimated baby would be about 6lb, all of the boys were over 9lb at birth, so i wouldnt pay a huge amount of attention tbh, they notoriously estimate size wrong.

i was told my youngest was going to be big,
he was 6lb 4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
when he was born the midwife said,oh look weve got a scrawny one here!
he was far and away the hardest birth(and to raise but thats a different matter!)
my easiest was my third and biggest baby,2 hours 20 mins of labour 5 mins of ushing,although she was only 7lb 10 1/2
which isent massive.

My 1st sone was 9LBS and they said my 2nd was going to be even bigger -they tried to talk me out of a homebirth - at every antenatal they would measure my belly and say ... ooh its a big one..ect

he was born at home in the pool - no stitches 7lb 11oz

They arent always right