Baby's weight announcements

[FirstBabyLateJuly]

Hi all,
I'm expecting our first baby in late July and I've got this thing about people knowing the baby's weight if I manage a vaginal birth: it seems like people use knowing the weight only to 1) Assess (in their view) how easy/difficult the birth must have been, 2) Assess the baby's health. Both of which I don't particularly want everyone speculating about, as it doesn't seem any of their business! Does anyone else feel like this or is it just me? Am considering not telling anyone at all!
Thanks

There is quite a lot of ignorance about birth weight.

Because DS was so big, I was told I may have developed GD in late pregnancy (had GTT at 28wks which was clear) and I really worried it was MY fault - that he'd got used to too much sugar because I'd been eating too much or something. Doctor reassured me though.

My parents' friend wrote in our congratulations card basically that I'd done well feeding him so he'd come out huge. Really didn't help how I felt - like I'd been stuffing my face or something. When actually I'd barely eaten in months, there was no room for food because he was so big. But I took the card quite personally as if it was saying I was greedy. :(

I thought I was sensitive and precious about things until I read this thread

What did bug me was people constantly asking "what does he weigh now then" for months afterwards as if that was some measure of how well you're looking after/feeding the baby.

In the end I just used to say "9lb 10oz (or whatever it was) - what about you?!"

There is nothing precious about being upset by comments you perceive to be relating to your ability to feed your baby in utero in the fog and emotion post birth.

Sensitive. Yes, but that's natural sometimes if you don't have a 'normal' sized baby or you've had medical complications.

Precious, no.

Good job no one told me my 4lber was an easy birth, I would have punched them. Bugger had a big head

We don't use the Imperial system as neither of us learnt it at school so quite naturally we told people DS's weight in grammes, which of course is what the hospital measured it in. Couldn't believe the completely dumfounded reactions of people, some of whom demanded we do the conversion for them!