We had our (last!) u/s today and after a loooooong time, waiting for the baby to roll over (like over an hour..) the tech finally got a belly shot and gave us our percentile. The baby weighs, at 30 weeks 4 days, 2 pounds 15 oz which puts it in the 35th percentile. At time time I thought - heck yeah! no big baby head to push out and then.. of course.. hours later... I am wondering if I should have asked a few more questions.
The high risk dr came in and said the baby was 'perfect' for my size (I am 5'1 and petite) and for my weight gain (to date: almost 14 pounds) and I was told I was finished with MFM! K keeps reassuring me, every time she sees my furrowed brow, that they would have scheduled another u/s to see the progress or said there was concern or something like that and I should just be happy it is little and healthy. I was just over 6 pounds, at full term myself. I should just stop thinking about it, right? They would have had me come back if they were at all worried about the baby..
Re: 35th percentile?
Don't stress. Someone has to be 35th% for someone to be 95%. There is a wide range of healthy weight.
My friend (who is teeny tiny and was high risk for pre-e, and thus heavily monitored during preg) was told right up to her labor that she was having a tiny baby, and when he was born - three weeks early! - he was like a full pound larger than they predicted.
The ultrasound measurements seem so dependable when they are doing them, but a sonogram is like an echo of a picture - so, so, often those measurements are smaller than what the baby actually turns out to be.
Definitley just think of "small head"
sahm ~ toddler breastfeeder ~ cloth diaperer ~ baby wearer
Emme was 4lb14oz too, at 36w5d! Peanuts!
It is a good think I swallowed my coffee, or it would have been all over my laptop