Weight estimate

2bePLC · August 2009

What are they estimating your babys weight to be at this stage in your pregnancy per your last ultrasound?

I am 30.5 weeks and I had an ultrasound yesterday and they are extimating LO to be about 4.1 lbs? Wondering if that is big or normal.

I am scared of having a really big baby LOL

AMYfromKY · August 2009

Henry was 3.5 pounds at exactly 30 weeks

nmr79 · August 2009

I wouldn't put too much stock in those ultrasounds. My SIL was told she would have a 9+ lb. baby, and he was 7lbs 3 oz. I've heard other similar cases. Don't let it stress you out!

kp28 · August 2009

@ 30 wks, mine was est at 5.25 lbs...

Owie!

Shelly888 · August 2009

6#9oz at just about 36 weeks, put LO in the 77th%

adharper2615 · August 2009

At 31 wks she was said to be 4lbs/4oz (I think that was the ounce measurement) and this past Monday (35 wks) they said she was 6lbs/3oz. I guess we will see how close the estimates were when she arrives!

bunintheoven76 · August 2009

LO was estimated yesterday to be 5 lbs 8 oz @ 33 weeks 5 days. They said if I go 40 weeks she would be close to 10 lbs. I know the stuff is an estimate, but it would scare me if I wasn't already having a c-section!

epopp85 · August 2009

Hayden weighed 1lb15oz on the 20th at 26w1d. That's up exactly a lb from his u/s of a month earlier. I go back for another u/s on Sept 17th.

LeelaH · August 2009

Yeah, according to this chart https://www.babycenter.com/average-fetal-length-weight-chart that seems pretty big for 30.5 weeks. But they can be off by a pound either way.

i*heart*him · August 2009

At 29 weeks they said he was 2 lb 14 oz.

50% percentile

jday1229 · August 2009

7lbs @ 34 weeks.

Heh.

I'm not putting too much stock in it.

mwalliser · August 2009

nmr79:
I wouldn't put too much stock in those ultrasounds.

The estimates can generally be quite off! The day I was induced with DD, they estimated that she was around 5.5 lbs... she was 4 lbs 12 oz at birth the next morning.

ashdonne · August 2009

At 25 weeks she was 1 lb 12 oz and in the 52% percentile.

disbride061103 · August 2009

nmr79:
I wouldn't put too much stock in those ultrasounds. My SIL was told she would have a 9+ lb. baby, and he was 7lbs 3 oz. I've heard other similar cases. Don't let it stress you out!

This. At 39w 2d, my OB estimated DS to be clost to 8lbs. The same day I had an u/s done at the hospital (to confirm breech presentation) and the tech estimated 8 lbs. Two days later DS was born weighing 5lbs 12oz.