Big or small baby
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Topic: Big or small baby
Posted By: kellverona
Subject: Big or small baby
Date Posted: 23 February 2006 at 4:42pm
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Anyone here know what decides the size of baby when born?? I have read it depends on mums pre pregancy weight or weight at birth. Anyone else know??? ------------- http://pregnancyplanet.net/tickers/"> 
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 23 February 2006 at 4:50pm
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You can't really predict the size of a babe. Some follow a pattern... some are blatantly out of sync with expectations!
They say first babies are smaller (but geez, if I have one larger than Hannah at 9lbs 6oz I won't be impressed!) Even genetics has failed me, I was 7lbs. Even my size was nothing to go by. I'm quite small and had a small bump... midwife was worried about Hannah growing. Anyway... same as old wives tales, you can take or leave what anyone will tell you. |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 23 February 2006 at 4:51pm
sorry i don't know. i was about 8kgs heavier than i wanted/should've been when jack was conceived and came out of hospital 6kgs heavier again. he was only 5pd 12oz when born  ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: AnnaD
Date Posted: 23 February 2006 at 7:56pm
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If you eat lots of sugary foods and ice cream at every avail oppourtunity for the last month or so of your pregnancy, you will have a very big baby. I learnt that the hard way! ------------- Anna and Quinn 10 July 2004 www.quinnariki.blogspot.com and one more on the way.... http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 23 February 2006 at 8:41pm
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I really have no idea. Genetically Maya was destined to be big I guess, I was 8lb13oz, and Mum had 3 preterm babies that were HUGE for their gestation (my brother was 7lb12oz born at 33 weeks!).
So it was no surprise that Missy Maya was 9lb1oz. But the food thing for me was a total myth - I ate virtually nothing as I had chronic morning sickness right up till the birth. I don't think big babies are neccesarily harder to deliver tho. Maya literally just 'popped' out with a tiny graze, and yet I shared a room a Birthcare with two Mum's who had 7lbers and heaps of stitches. I think that part is more about how you birth, and your midwife. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 23 February 2006 at 9:39pm
Head size is a factor in how your birth goes, but a big baby doesnt necessarily have a big head - apparently! "They" say genetics has a role in size but Hannah was about a poound bigger than either of us. I think that your baby may come out chubbier if you eat lots of rubbish (my experience he he!). Also babies seem to be getting bigger by evolution - Hannah at 8lb 5 was the smallest of my group of 4 friends having bubs around the same time (and we are all relatively small) yet while I was in hospital a very large lady had a 6 pounder. So basically I think what I am waffling about is that there is no way of knowing!!  ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: james
Date Posted: 23 February 2006 at 10:40pm
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i had to have 3 scan for growth with james as my midwife thought he would be small but he was 7 pound 2oz and i was told at my last scan at 37 weeks he would be 10 pound or bigger so i dont no if it has anything to do with your wight more on the natualtion side of the bubs while preggy oh and my mum had 5 kids from 10 pound(me) to 7pound 1oz and her wight was the same all thur ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: mum2emj
Date Posted: 24 February 2006 at 10:07am
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i gained the most weight in my first pergnancy well over the 15kg, and suffered high blood pressure my baby was 6lb2oz then second time around didnt gain as much, not quite 15kg and had normal blood pressure, still had a smallish baby at 7lb3oz..... i was born 7lb6oz
my oldest sister was 6lb9oz. we were both born over due too. her babies were both in the 7lb's when born. i think my blood pressure played a big part in my first being a smaller baby. |