Baby weight question (the actual baby, not how much YOU put on)!

AnnapolisLari · December 2008

Someone on my Babyzone board posted this info from her midwife...

Between an ultrasound, a doctor/midwif'e's guess, and a mother's guess, the mother's guess about the baby's weight is usually the closest to the actual weight.

My guess for this one is somewhere between 8 lb 14 oz and 9 lb 2 oz. The doc guessed 9 lb yesterday. We'll see on Friday if we're right.

Were you right about your kids' weight?

xbrooklyngrl · December 2008

I figured she's be 7ish and she was 7lbs 6oz. My doc was pretty accurate too.

neesernicole · December 2008

right before my c/s, dh and i made a bet. i said she would be over 8 lb and he said under. she weighed 7 lb 15.6 oz. i lost by .4 oz.

MelandJeff · December 2008

Heck no. I carried small the 2nd time and he was over 9 lbs- 2.5 weeks early!

DD, I was young and gaind a shitload amount of weight, but I still would have never guessed for her to be over 9 lbs either.

stacynikki · December 2008

I honestly never thought about how much he'd weigh. I just knew he'd be a big baby. My OB never estimated the weight either. Or at least shared that with me. And I had a ton of u/s's done but the techs never mentioned anything about the weight. I guess that's why I never thought about it.

ElizabethD · December 2008

I never guessed and my OB never guessed. Son was 8 lbs 9 ounces.

My midwife said based on the 36 week u/s they wouldn't let me go past 40 weeks. I did the math on what she says is the weight gain by week and my dd was slightly bigger than what she "should be" based on their averaging... she was 8 lbs 12 ounces at week 39.

I never guessed on any of them.

firefightersgal · December 2008

Nobody tried to guess Nora's weight as far as I know.

Bellisimo · December 2008

The OB predicted 7lb.9oz. and he was born weighing exactly 7lb.9oz. I had no predictions.

brightning · December 2008

My doc also never gave any estimates or guesses of her weight. I always measured normal so it never came up. I thought she'd be in the mid to high 6 lb range, and she was 7 lbs 2 oz

Calibride31304 · December 2008

Nope. I think I guessed around 7lbs even. My OB said 7lbs 12oz to 8lbs and he was 7lbs 12oz at birth!

Brewster · December 2008

I thought he was going to be a 9 pounder. My OB estimated 8 lbs. He came 2 weeks early and was 7 lb 10 oz. Had I gone to 40 weeks, he probably would have been pretty close to 9 though.

A-baybride · December 2008

I didn't have any hunches. I had a few ultrasounds in the last few weeks because she was breech for a while. They put her in the 25th percentile and she was born at 7 lb 1 oz, which I think is 30th percentile. So U/S was pretty accurate in my case.