How much did you weigh at birth? And how much did your first baby weigh?

[mybabysinthegarden]

Me: 7 lbs 1 oz; dd: 8 lbs 1 oz

Me: 7lbs 5oz
DS: 1lb 6oz

Me - 8lb 7oz
DH - don't know (his Mum is very hazy about his birth and babyhood, we think she had a very bad time )

DD - she was predicted to be over 9lb from fundal height and ultrasounds, but actually she was 8lb 2oz

Me: 7 lb 7oz
Dd1: 8 lb 13oz (40 wks)
Dd2: 8 lb 8oz (37+5 wks)
Ds: 9 lb 1oz (38 wks)

Me a 2lb 14oz 7 week prem
DD 8lb 5oz EMCS at 40+1

Am I the only who is surprised at how very small a lot of us now grown-ups were? Our mothers must all have been puffing on 60 a day or something... (apart from the twins etc...)

i think mine was!!

Me: 7 lbs 11 oz

DS: 10 lbs 2 oz

Me. About 7.5 lbs I beleive.
DS#1 - 10 4
DD - 9 6
DS#2 - 10 4

I blame DH - his family is extremely...ahem...big-boned.

Me; 7lb 9oz
Ds: 7lb
DD: 8lb 1oz

This is why I'm asking: a totally unscientific straw poll of my friends reveals that most of us have had babies significantly heavier than we were at birth and I was wondering if it was the same out in the wider world, which it looks as if it is (though not to the degree of my immediate circle). I have a couple of friends who were told that they were basically 'too small' for the size of baby they had making vaginal birth very difficult, so I started wondering if babies are getting bigger at a faster rate than grownups, iyswim, (for example, I'm bigger than my mum, but I'm not 14% bigger than she is) and if that might have something to do with the recent increase in interventions in births.

So it's quite interesting to see everyone's stats. The smoking thing is something I hadn't thought of presumably even those with non-smoking mums were probably exposed to more smoky environments than we were. But I also wondered if there might be some connection between the rising age at which people have their first and the higher weights for example some further random and totally unscientific clicking on some of the profiles of those of you who've had smaller babies (where you haven't said they were prems) shows that many were in their early 20s when they had their first.

Yes, I am a pg nerd with too much time on her hands. [considers setting up excel spreadsheet to plot results...]

Duchesse, I'm going to buck the trend.

Me: 9lb 8oz (my mum was told to expect a 5lb-er)

Ds1: 8lb 8oz

Ds2 8lb 8oz

Dd1 7lb 5oz

Dd2 7lb-ish.

Me 7lb
dd 8lb 15

8lb 13 I mean!

Me 8lb 7oz,
DS1 8lb 13 oz

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Oh, btw, my mum smoked when expecting me.

Me 5.10 ( 43 weeks)
DD 8.05 (40 weeks)
DS 8.03( 38 weeks)

Obviously in my family you weigh more the earlier you are born

suedonim, you're bucking another trend which is that most people's babies seem to get bigger as they go on!

Me- 8lb 15oz

dd1-7lb 11.5oz

dd2-8lb 13oz

Me 7lb 7oz (40+7)
DS 8lb 12oz (40 +11)
ds2 not born yet but looks like he's gonna be over 9lbs

Me: 9lbs 3oz
DS1: 8lbs 2oz
DD: 8lbs 2oz
DS2: 8lbs 1oz

Me: around 6lb

DD1: 6lb exactly (2 weeks early)

DD2: 6lb 13oz (1 week early)

Mine were both classed as full-term, no smoking going on in my pg's and I was v. young when I had DD1 and v.old when I had DD2

And normal deliveries