Hi all,
I wanted to update on the prediction that our baby girl was due to be over the 97th percentile in weight, and 'Large for gestational age'. I know that myself and others have recently posted on 'large' babies and certain recommendations based on late growth scans.
Well - far from the whopper we were expecting (and yes, I got an elective c-section because I was told of the high risk of shoulder dystocia), our baby girl (born w39) was a healthy 7.8lbs - which is LESS than she was predicted to weigh three weeks earlier when they told be I was going to have a large baby.
She lost a fair bit of weight following birth and is now quite a small baby, in the bottom end of the centiles for her age.
Of course, they can only advise based on what the late scans are showing, and I don't regret getting a c-section (it was fine and she's here safely!) but I do hope they find a more accurate way of predicting the size of babies, because it was very stressful in the final weeks with us worrying that our diabetes test was perhaps wrong, or I'd eaten too many calories during pregnancy, and various other imaginings to explain my giant baby who seemed to have ballooned in the final weeks based on the data!
I'm not complaining at all - but I do think it's worth bearing in mind that these scans clearly don't tell the whole story for all babies.
Good luck for anyone making decisions based on LGA predictions. I wouldn't have done anything differently - - as I wouldn't have gone against the doctors' advice.
xx