Eating too much = big baby?

[ag123]

I was just wondering if anyone had any information on this topic. 10 weeks ago I gave birth to my beautiful son at a whopping 11 lb and he was my first baby. I am quite big -5'10" and certainly not of slender frame, but the fact that he was so big led to a lot of complications- I ended up with an emergency section and also had a tear to the caesarean incision as they struggled to heave him out. I won't be planning on getting pregnant again in the near future (and have been advised to wait 12-18 months anyway) but I want to be well informed before I do. I definitely ate a lot during the pregnancy, but never had any sugar in my wee (so I don't think I could possibly have had undetected gestational diabetes) and he has also stuck to exactly the same centile line throughout (95th approx). Do you think if I was very very careful about what I ate during a subsequent pregnancy I could control the size of the baby?

I must apologise, I found this thread whilst searching on google for a birth weight conversion and joined…probably temporarily…just to add a comment. I am 75 and unlikely to make any other comments. Nearly 41 years ago I gave birth to my third son, his birth weight was 11lbs 13ozs. I was induced for all three births and did not have a caesarean section. Despite his size I was in labour for less than 4 hours. I did have many stitches! My gynaecologist brought a load of students the next day to my room and told me I must have a “prodigious womb”. I don’t think that his birth weight was due to overeating or my height. I was 4ft 11” then and I’m now 4ft 10”. My husband is 5ft 10”. I was later diagnosed with diabetes which I was told had affected the size of my babies. The other 2 were 9lbs and 9 and a half pounds. Maybe this mum should look out for signs of diabetes….mine’s was persistent and dementing thrush!!