What do you think?

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In a nutshell my baby is measuring very large - at last scan was measuring 37 weeks when I was 32 weeks pregnant. I have to go and see the consultant in 3 weeks and have another scan and discuss birth options. The baby is currently breech and I will have a C section booked in automatically if I am breech at 36 weeks but if he has turned we are then going to decide if I want a C section due to babys size.

I'm in a dilema, if I have to make a choice I would prefer not to have a C section but I think that I would rather have a planned one than an emergency one. So I was thinking of asking for a C section if the consultant thinks that my risk of having an emergency one is higher than normal due to babys size.

What do you all think? It seems sensible to me but heck I'm 33 weeks pregnant!!!

Its hard to know whether you'd be able to deliver a baby vaginally, whatever its size. What weight do they predict ?

FWIW, I was 10lb 5oz, my brother was 10lb 11oz (he's the oldest), and my mother had both of us with no pain relief and no stitches, and short labours. She says that she'd had worse period pains than the labour pain.

And didn't someone here just have a humungous baby vaginally and only three stitches ?

A CS does have significant risks, so if baby has turned it would seem sensible to just see how things go. After all, the size measurements are notoriously unreliable, and it would be a shame to go through major surgery and then find the baby was 8lbs.