It's early days (Am 31 weeks pg) but scans are showing that the circumference of my baby's stomach are on the 97th percentile. The hospital want to scan me again in a month and the sonographer mentioned that they might not 'let' me have a home birth if baby is big. I have only had a scan this late in the day as I have transferred hospitals because I want a home birth and for that the hospital needs to be local. I should say, though, that I never intended to actually give birth in this hospital which has a terrible reputation so the prospect of having to go there is very unappealing.
I am a bit confused because my first baby was only seven pounds twelve and in every other respect I have been identified as low risk. Every single blood test etc has been fine, my blood pressure is consistently low and I even had my first baby at home with no complications and no tearing.
I have two questions really for anyone who knows about these things- one is how accurately can they measure these things - could they have just got it 'wrong' - might baby be perfectly average size after all? (I am with the same partner less than two years later so a really big baby seems unlikely) And my second is 'how big is too big to have at home?" My friend has just given birth to a nine pound eight baby at home and nobody suggested she had to go to hospital. I haven't met my midwives yet so will discuss all these things with them but would be interested in some early opinions...