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Anyone else measure MASSIVE for dates what was the outcome???

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TLSM · 05/02/2008 23:04

I had my 28 week check yesterday and she said that I measure 34! I am having a GTT test on Thursday and a growth scan @ 34 weeks but should I be worried she is saying to expect a 10lb baby Has anyone else measured this big for dates??

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Plussizemummy · 06/02/2008 01:01

Well, I had a growth scan at 32 weeks and apparently my baby was already weighing 6lbs 14oz then! 38 weeks now and still waiting for her to arrive.

canofworms · 06/02/2008 01:06

Yes - my dd3 was measuring large so they brought my section forward. Only to find I delivered a 7lb 9oz little scrap!

Incidentally, Dd1 was supposed to be large too - 7lb 7oz! and dd2 was just average (9lb 15oz!!!!)

So basically, I'm saying ignore all the scans!

PortAndLemon · 06/02/2008 09:23

I mentioned on the other thread -- measured 5 weeks ahead with DS throughout. He was 10lb 5.3oz at (nearly) full term and I also had a slight touch of polyhydramnios.

You may not even have a large baby, though, and large babies are fab anyway.

PortAndLemon · 06/02/2008 09:29

(BTW, fundal height measurement (a) is quite tricky to do correctly and (b) doesn't mean a great deal unless there's a consistent pattern over several weeks.)

morningpaper · 06/02/2008 09:36

Yes 4 weeks 'ahead' but only 8 1/2 lb - and two weeks late!

Mymeems · 06/02/2008 09:42

I had a scan at 33 weeks after having to dash in with some bleeding..all the midwives were saying that my dates must be wrong, that I looked like I was full term already. Scan showed he was slightly bigger than your average, was born 3 weeks early at 7lb 1oz. So maybe not the tiniest but I don't think he'd have been that much of a whopper!

MrsJohnCusack · 06/02/2008 09:43

A 10 pound baby isn't the end of the world anyway TBH - my 10lb 5oz DS was a perfectly fine birth with no damage!

as others have said, they're not brilliant at estimating weight even by scan (HOPELESS with my 9 lb 14 oz DD - over 2lbs out) and the fundal height thing is quite pointless. my midwife didn't do it after about 20 weeks this time round as she said it was a waste of time...

JodieG1 · 06/02/2008 09:46

My cousin's wife has been having scans because they say the baby is very big and is due to be induced this week I think at 37 weeks. They are both very tall though so this would explain the large baby. I wonder what the baby will weigh as they cannot really predict before they are born.

I was told by a consultant the day before I went into labour with ds1 that he would be a 6 pound baby, he was 7lb 12 and a half so he was 2 pounds out!

marina · 06/02/2008 09:46

I had excess amniotic fluid in both pregnancies, but not clinical polyhydramnios apparently (although it was a close-run thing with dd).
I had GTTs both times and was upper end of OK...and growth scans suggested 9lbers, which they were
The only unexpected outcome was a humungous splash on the operating theatre floor and a lot of cursing from the surgeon with ds - he got drenched. Given what an unlikeable man he was, I was not sorry
Good luck with the tests and the rest of your pregnancy

spicemonster · 06/02/2008 09:50

I had polyhydramnios and was measuring term by 34 weeks. Big downside was that I could barely walk and had to stop working earlier than I really wanted. And I had to have a cs. But they had also thought my baby would be enormous and he was just under 7lbs.

MrsMattie · 06/02/2008 09:58

I didn't measure for large for dates - at least nobody ever mentioned to me that I was. I had a 10 lb 2 oz baby boy!

coppertop · 06/02/2008 10:04

With dd my FH was 4-6 weeks ahead. Dd was only 8lbs 4oz and the smallest of my three.

FriedGreenTomatoes · 06/02/2008 10:16

I masured big for my dates (not as big as you though) and delivered a 10lb15oz baby at 40 weeks. I had a c-section, as they would have left me to go to 42 weeks for a natural birth - and she would have been about 12lbs then

Julezboo · 06/02/2008 10:25

I measured big, at 35 weeks i was measurign 42! He was born at 39 week sby section and was only 7lb!

EllieKat · 06/02/2008 14:39

I am measuring about 2.5/3 weeks larger than dates (which I'm very sure of) and have had growth scans at 28 and 34 weeks which confirm this. GTT was negative. I'm seeing a consultant tomorrow and very much hoping we don't get the standard 'induction by 40 weeks' scare story. It just seems like they get it wrong all the time, and I hate to think of having an induction when my body's not ready, which'll probably lead to more intervention, and how is that good for the baby?

Given all the posts here, I wouldn't be too worried about your dates!

MrsJohnCusack · 06/02/2008 21:24

induction for a big baby is often really pointless Ellie
induction is far more likely to lead to interventions than a big baby is, and what you say is true - much better to go into labour naturally if you can

good luck and hope it goes OK!

and good luck to you as well TLSM - if you search mumsnet on big babies, growth scans etc. you'll find lots of posts saying how inaccurate and scaremongery it all is

Chloe55 · 06/02/2008 21:26

Oooodles and ooooodles of fluid and a 9lb 10oz baby boy

Tutter · 06/02/2008 21:28

i was measured as being 39 weeks when i was 29 weeks

was then under consultant care for impendin mahoosive baby

ds2 was born at 39+4 weighing 7lb 6oz

Chloe55 · 06/02/2008 21:28

39 weeks at 29 weeks?? - Bloody hell Tutter!!

BetsyBoop · 06/02/2008 22:22

With DD (my first) was measuring between 4&6wks ahead.

Had 2 GTTs, both fine.

Had growth scans (32 & 36wks I think) & both said expect a 9.5lb baby at term. She was 8lb8.5oz when born at 39+4.

With DS (second) was again measuring 4-6wks ahead.

Had growth scan at 36wks & they said expect a 9.5lb baby at term. (yeah right, I thought, you said that last time...) He was born at 40+10 weighing 10lb 10.5oz!!

That said I'm 5'11" & DH is 6'3", so we were hardly likely to produce tiddlers were we?

LuckySalem · 06/02/2008 22:23

I was measuring in the 95th percentile and had a baby girl of only 6lb 2oz (2 weeks late)

shabster · 06/02/2008 22:31

In 1981 (my first pregnancy) I went to midwife for a check-up. No scans then, just very experienced midwife. I was about 20 wks. My regular midwife had a trainee with her. She asked the trainee to palpate my tum and added 'theres an awful lot of mum so you may have problems' - thanks very much, oh I wouldnt put up with that now!!

The trainee felt the baby and said she thought I was about 36 weeks - the regular midwife went mad at her and said how wrong she was.

When I got to about 30 weeks we had the same scenario. The regular lady said she thought I was having at least a ten pound baby and that I would have problems delivering - cause I am under 5ft.

At 36 wks I was finally x rayed - joyous experience - and the outcome was not a 10lb baby but twin DS - they were born 11 days later. It is hard, even nowadays to properly judge a pregnancy.

Sorry to go on and on but this thread has made me remember Christmas 1981 x

Jaysthird · 06/02/2008 22:40

As posted on another thread of same nature..

had growth scans with both previous pregnancies -
DD scan showed 9.7lbs - birth weight 9.5lbs
DS scan showed over 10lbs - birth weight 11.2lbs

this pregnancy - @37weeks showed 9.2lbs.... 3 weeks to go, i am expecting a big one again!

PortAndLemon · 06/02/2008 23:47

My word, shabster -- some pretty nippy shopping called for, I imagine!

pucca · 07/02/2008 00:05

I measured 4/5 weeks bigger all the way through (from about 26 weeks ish) i had a growth scan (can't remember exactly but would have been about 32weeks iirc) and the baby measured big, think it was something daft like 6.5 lbs already.

I was booked for elective section at 39 weeks, went into the labour a week earlier (still had section though) and ds weighed in at 9lb 6oz @ 38 weeks!

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