90th percentile baby

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Had a scan @ hosp
At 26w 3 days
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They said baby is currently 90th percentile
Im a bit worried...

Midwife said i dont have gestational diabetes - they tested me,very recently

I was a very prem baby
But my mum was told if id gone to term - id of been a,big baby..

Cant help but feel worried

Have a growth scan in just under 2 weeks

( was having growth scans anyway as low papp a )

Any thoughts ?

What is it that you are worried about exactly? The very nature of the centile system means some babies are at the top, some are at the bottom. A big baby isn't necessarily harder to deliver. If they are concerned they will give you extra scans and monitoring

Just worried as to if theres anything wrong

Ivf pregnancy

Shes a ' top quality- - pgta normal embryo.

I have a complex medical history - few health conditions
And am nervous

I had an IVF pregnancy. 98th centile at birth and still on that centile at nearly 2. If they are worried they will test you for GD again and you will be closely monitored

Try and think logically, OP. Your baby is towards the top end of the range of normal. So normal, and therefore nothing to worry about.

Thankyou

Thankyou

I had 2 90th percentile children. They were born at 6lbs9 and 7lbs10. So one at 25% and one at 50%. Take it with a pinch of salt.

Both my DCs were absolute whoppers at birth. No diabetes.

Both off the chart for length. Both fairly heavy too. DC1 was 9lb 2oz and DC2 was 9lb 12oz and had a chubby face.

Both quick labours - 5 hours and 4 hours.

DC1 slept through the night from 6 weeks. DC2 was a bad sleeper but turned out to have ADHD (which ofren causes insomnia).

Interestingly, they are both young adults now. DC1 is extremely tall and still off the chart for height. DC2 is fairly normal height and skinny.

My wee one tracked on the 98th for my entire pregnancy (I ended up with quite a few growth scans plus I’d went to get a private 4d scan too). It was never treated as a concern and she was born within a day of her due date and was actually between the 25th and 50th.

The flood of information you get at scan can be a bit disconcerting, especially if you’re already anxious, but if any of it’s concerning they’ll let you know

Two massive off the charts babies under my belt, with no GD, so I've learned a few bits from my experiences.

What were your GD results? If they were borderline, is there merit in still following diet recommendations?

At your next scan, ask which measurements are measuring big. Size is estimated as abdominal circumference by femur length by head circumference. Long babies can throw off the estimate.

Ask them to double check all measurements. It won't be offensive, but small adjustments to baby can make a difference in my experience.

If baby's tummy is big, and nothing else is, it's often said to be related to mum's diet. If babies body is big and the head isn't, that's when concern starts due to risk of shoulder dystocia. My midwife said it was great I had big headed babies, because if I got the head out the shoulders would follow easily.

I birthed both mine vaginally, so this is still possible with a big baby if you want. I'd focus on getting info from your next scan, and then planning for birth after that. ❤️

Sorry to say but diet does make a difference too. A lot of big babies are from genetics and nothing to do with eating junk food - I didn't and still got a ten pounder - but when baby is bigger already you don't have as much lee way.

My boy was 86th centile born 8lbs 11oz @ 39 weeks. I wouldn’t worry too much at this point x

Mine were both born at well over 95th centile - healthy babies, normal births, no gestational diabetes.

Size predictions at your stage of pregnancy are notoriously inaccurate anyway, but a larger baby is nothing to worry about, unless you are incredibly petite (one very small-framed Chinese friend of mine was married to a 6ft2 Australian, and she needed a c-section for their daughter, who took after her father in size).

Remember data can be reassuring too. On one measure, I had a risk score of 1/49 with DD. It fell to 1/690 when I had a nucal measuring scan.

60% of babies predicted to be big are actually normal sized. I had one 94th centile baby (4.4kg) who they didn't predict to be big and turned out to have 99th centile head and a hand by his head too. And one 50th centile 3.8kg one who they predicted to be big who wasn't. And a 3.2kg one. The smallest 3.2kg was the most tricky labour due to his position. All fine and at home.

They told me my baby was going to be huge so o had lots of growth scans. In the end she was a pretty standard 8lbs and I had a standard birth with only a small tear.

So badger app just says' normal '
For gd result
( doesnt say the exact results/ numbers )

I was told she was 2lb 7 oz
@ 26w3days ..

Her 20w NHS scan was fine

4d scan privately at 24w they said head on big side
But still normal..

Then nhs scan at 26w3days where they said 90th percentile..

Due to various factors - il likely have c sec

My second was a big baby, 98th percentile and he was much easier to deliver than my 7.2lbs baby girl.

It’s not always accurate my friend was told her baby was very small so bought lots of small clothes, he arrived very big and nothing fit😬. Are you tall op? Hope everything goes well.

Not overly tall
We both have tall genes in our families
Not mega tall ourselves tho

Thank you
Nah - im not petite

I had a scan at 40 weeks + 9 days. I was told baby was at least 10 lbs 4oz, probably more. She was born 48 hours later and weighed 8 lb 4 oz. She did not drop 2 lb in weight in 2 days ... With DC2 I paid little attention to scan weights (though she also weighed 8 lb 4 at birth, must have been the way I grew babies, I am fairly tall and DH is 6ft). If you are planning a caesarean birth OP then many of the worries that many people have about big babies don't apply. Enjoy your pregnancy, it's a special time.

The scans are very inaccurate. Both pregnancies I was told I was having huge babies, they wanted to induce but I refused. Both came out at 7lb 5oz full term. I remember obsessing over head measurements, leg measurements etc too. Pregnancy sends you crazy, do what you can to look after yourself and stay calm. Eat healthily, trust that your body knows what it’s doing.

I had two fairly big babies. There are many advantages to a big baby. They are often efficient feeders as they are strong. A well fed baby will sleep well. A baby with a full belly who is not over tired may cry less. If they are not spending their time crying they get more time watching the world, interacting with people and learning. This can lead to early smilers and talkers.

My second was 9 pound 8 ounces and was born with no interventions or pain relief. It may not be a bad thing that your baby is on the 90th centile.

I had 3 big babies; 9lb, 10lb and 9lb7. Only the 10lb was “chunky”, the other 2 were skinny. As another poster said, there are advantages. They seem so much more robust and less fragile. I had them all vaginally with the second and third at home. The smallest was in the wrong position so MUCH harder to birth.

some babies will be born at the highest centipede, that’s just how it goes. Regarding, delivery, make the best decision for YOU and if that is c-section then go for it and NEVER let anyone criticise that decision. A sun roof delivery, in my opinion, is a much harder recovery.