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estimating baby's weight....
How accurate are the weight estimations?
Today at 32+3 they told me baby is 5lbs, 4 weeks ago today she was only 2lbs 15
One MW said i need to be tested for gestational diabetes, another told me its probe cause baby is in an awkward position making it harder to measure her properly and making it seem her AC is bigger then my consultant said not to worry.
My friend went through the exact same thing with her little boy when she was pregnant, they told her baby was bigger and that he would weigh about 9-10lbs at birth and he was only 7lbs 4, this also happened to a family friend, they said her little girl would be 8-9lbs and she was only 6lbs 9
So im not really sure if i believe my estimates are very accurate. Especially as one MW said that means she will be about 9lbs at birth and another said 7lbs 5
Today at 32+3 they told me baby is 5lbs, 4 weeks ago today she was only 2lbs 15
One MW said i need to be tested for gestational diabetes, another told me its probe cause baby is in an awkward position making it harder to measure her properly and making it seem her AC is bigger then my consultant said not to worry.
My friend went through the exact same thing with her little boy when she was pregnant, they told her baby was bigger and that he would weigh about 9-10lbs at birth and he was only 7lbs 4, this also happened to a family friend, they said her little girl would be 8-9lbs and she was only 6lbs 9
So im not really sure if i believe my estimates are very accurate. Especially as one MW said that means she will be about 9lbs at birth and another said 7lbs 5
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Im still scared at the prospect of pushing a 10lb baby out tho (my poor vagina)
I think the problem is that babies all grow at such different rates around these last few weeks so one minute they're too small, next too big and then just right.
I think its probably more important that they're healthy!
At NCT we learned that actually the silhouette of a 10lb baby versus a 7lb one is in fact identical - all the extra weight tends to be a fat layer all over rather than a much bigger skeleton etc so hopefully that's reassuring on the pushing front!