Delivering big baby

my biggest baby - 9pd 12 (or 13 i can never remember) was my easiers birth! and he had a huge head - 39 cms. he came out in five pushes!

i dont think size has anything to do with how easy or hard it is, more their position and yours possibly too!

my friends mum is tiny and she delivered a 10.5lb and 11.5lb baby will no troubles at all. apparently heavier babies are slightly easier since gravity is on your side.

the scans can be pretty inaccurate. i know ppl who have been told to estimate 10 or 11lb babies to have 8lb babies, my baby looked to be about 7lb and he was 8lb4oz.

size isn't usually a problem, its how they present thats an issue.
I had a home waterbirth with my daughter who was 8pd15 on her due date & it only took just over 4.5hours from first pain to pushed out. No forceps, no pain relief, no grazes, tears or anything.

Oh & I'm 5 foot 1 so was a pretty big baby for my size. All my kids have been over 4kg so no doubt this next baby will be too LOL

my biggest were 10lb 4oz and 10lb they were both home water births and my 10lb 4oz baby was the easiest out of them all. I agree all about positioning, I recently had a 8lb 2oz baby that turned into an emergency c-sec because of the way his head was.

good luck

I've had a 6lber and a 9lber (and 2 7lbers) and the only real difference was the "ring of fire" with the bigger baby was a bit more stingy, altho that could also have been because she was my first baby.

I did have an epidural with her, but that was nothing to do with her size - she was posterior so I had a long labour. Didn't need forceps or anything like that.

Just quickly - my boy was 9 lb 3 oz with a 39.5cm head. I had no drugs or gas, delivered him naturally . I did tear but that was cos he came out with his hand on his face, rather than his size.

I'm 174cm tall.

I'm 164cm and had a 9lb 4oz-er. He was ventouse for failure to progress in the second stage (head was not in a good position and I was k-nackered by then). Nasty episiotomy though

Thanks guys, I'm 157cm and a size 8 (well I used to be before I started packing on the baby pounds) It looks like the tearing is sort of a theme, ouch. Well no one said it would be a walk in the park

To be honest, I didn't even notice tearing at all. Even afterwards as it was healing, I more noticed the bruising from 1.5 hours of pushing!

oh this has been a helpful thread to read. DD was prem at 31w and just under 3lb so a very small bub to push out and I found it quite hard pushing because with the epi I couldn't really "feel" anything. This bub however is looking to be full term and on the bigger side so I was starting to stress about how on earth I'm going to push her out being only 5ft tall and a petite size 8 pre-pregnancy. Reading these posts it sounds like it might not be that bad after all. Only prob is I still have the horror story my mum told me about my birth - 2 weeks overdue, only 7lb 11oz and my mum (also a petite 5ft) had trouble pushing me out, needed ventouse AND forceps and tore something bad. And I was her first! Still, it can't have been that bad because she did it again 3 times!