Can you make your baby "too big" by eating too much?

[MadamAnt]

Just curious...DS was 10lb 9oz and I'm wondering if this next baby is likely to be even bigger given my current fondness of cakes.

I don't think so. My friend has diabetes and that meant her babies were massive. But I'm pretty sure just eating cake won't make a difference.

I don't think so either... I ate loads of jelly babies when PG with DS and he was only 6lbs 8oz!

I do grow HUGE babies who are clearly not meant tob e that big. They fall off all their centile lines until reaching a centile line right for them.

It could have down to my donut/sweets/spaghetti carbonara munching I just don't know.

LG&T - me too...it's a bit demoralising producing a juicy whopper of a baby and seeing it "shrink" into a skinny malink.

Too true, all that effort!

You can't make a baby bigger just by eating a lot - unless you have GD- but I think they do say that fat women have bigger babies because they have an excess of nutrients available in their bodies (this is what my midwife said to me)

although I have one when I was very very thin and he was 2lbs bigger than the one I had when I was very fat...

I had hideous ms and totally lost my appetite when pg with dd. I hardly ate anything for the first 20 weeks and even after that, I was still off my food. She was 9lb 12oz (despite neither me nor dh being particular big/tall)

This time round I'm eating for England so I really hope your theory is incorrect

Nope - urban myth! see www.bigbaby.org.uk

I ate and ate and put on 4.5 stone with DS. He was 6lb 1oz

I ate and ate and put on 4.5 stone with DD. She was 7lb 11oz

Trust me, you can't! DD was 50th centile at birth and I ate like a HORSE.

Oh good. My OP was prompted by my third large slice of coffee cake last night, and subsequent inner thumping from my enormo-baby.

lol @ enormobaby

With dd I put on something like 4 or 5 stone and she was a nicely average 7lb 12oz. My arse was somewhat more than nicely average though...