Rolo Rabbit Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 With all this lovely baby talk at the moment, I started thinking about the births of our beloved children and wondered if anyone has had a heavier baby than my DS. He came out (just) at 10 pounds 7! And yes, he did feel that big. I have one friend who had an 11 pounder and he's still huge but the funny thing is my DS is now quite small for his age. (Sorry if this thread has appeared before.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 I think you win on here. I remember discussing it a while back unless but there may be a newbie who can trump you. My biggest was 9lb 14 natural. I may be able to do the biggest gap 9lb 14 - 2lb 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 Nope, I can't beat that! 9lb 5oz, 8lb 4oz, 8lb 12oz and 9lb 10oz. The first was by Caesarean and 3 weeks late. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolo Rabbit Posted October 3, 2008 Author Share Posted October 3, 2008 You may win for the total weight though! That's 4 really good sized babies!! Ds was 2 weeks late so I reckon if he'd come out when he should have he'd have been a nice do-able size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeckyBoo Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 All mine were very average weight, 8lb, 6lb 13 (4 weeks early) and 8lb 2oz, and when I see people with bigger newborns I'm very grateful for that Mrs B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Pudding Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 Sorry Rolo I think I've just pipped you! ES was 10lb 12oz, only 1 week overdue and I felt every ounce too. followed by YS - 9lb 14oz born on due date - he seemed tiny! ES was a bit of a shock as you can imagine, I didn't have diabetes or any other medical reason, I just 'grow 'em big'! I'm not having any more - I was threatened with a twelve-pounder if I kept going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolo Rabbit Posted October 3, 2008 Author Share Posted October 3, 2008 Wow Daph n Marj! That's what I was worried about when number 2 was on her way - I really didn't fancy trying to get another whopper out. I didn't have diabetes either. Apparently my husband and his brother were both over 10 and a half pounds.Pity he didn't tell me before we took the plunge... When DS was born, loads of nurses from other wards kept coming to visit the 'big baby' and what really made me laugh was them saying to me 'oooh , you're only tiny too!' I've never been called tiny in my life as I'm 5 foot 7 and an average size 12. I think they were expecting me to be a lot bigger than I was. But I wouldn't have thought that follows either. Surely bigger women don't necessarily have bigger babies? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Pudding Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 Not always but taller Mums often do (according to my auntie who's a midwife). I'm 5'4" and about a size 14 so that's certainly not the reason, and OH and I were both little (6 and 7 lb ) babies. So it's apparently just that I am very good at growing boys inside me and luckily have enough room through my pelvis to get them out afterwards. When ES was born I was in a 6-bed ward and all 5 other ladies had 5lb babies, so we got lots of visits too and everyone looked in amazement at Stanley, then at me and asked if I was ok. I had a few stitches but I was fine - he slept well, fed well and was a little angel too, a very laid-back easy baby. When I was 3 weeks off having YS, I was seen by an obstetrician who had me scanned to check on YS's size. He seemed determined to section me and I was equally determined that, having got ES out, unless this was the threatened twelve pounder he was coming out of the usual exit. After the scan the radiographer came white-faced to tell us we were having a 'very big' baby. 'How big?' we asked? 'Well he's 8lb 8oz already so he'll be about 9lb 8oz at birth' she said. We fell about laughing and had to explain why nothing under 11lb would scare us! I think she was much more used to scanning for low birth-weight babies and our big lad must have been a bit of a shocker! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LisaP Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 I had 4 good sized babies too: 1) 9lb 8 1/2 - 2 weeks late 2) 7lb 12 - full breach, 1 week early by caesarean 3) 9lb - 2 weeks late 4) 9lb 13 - 1 week early I had complications with the first 3 and then a text book delivery with no 4 - he had obviously read the manual Still I'm glad he wasn't 2 weeks late like his brothers - goodness knows what his weight might have been then Still can't believe I had to have a caesarean with the smallest but she is my only daughter Lisa P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scary Mary Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 Me, me me..... I had twins and they were 8 lb 5.5oz and 7lb 1 oz , which clocks in at over a stone of baby!. I was massive, but the little horrors still had to be dynamited out at 39 weeks and 6 days My eyes are watering at the weight of some of your babies , I'm so glad I'm past all that now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 My heaviest was 9lb 12 oz....a mere tiddler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Pudding Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 Actually I think bigger babies are becoming more common these days - certainly more of my friends and colleagues are having nine-pounds-something babies. I still hold the school record though - I have a bottle of bubbly for anyone who has a 10lb 13oz baby and I've had it ever since ES arrived - he's nine now and it's still safe. When YS arrived some of my y10s held a sweepstake on his birthweight. Half the money went to the NSPCC and they bought a present for YS with the other half. The weights on the sweepstake entry card started at 9lb and went up to 15lb . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 Respect ladies My 3 were 5lb 11.5oz - 3 weeks early 7lb 12oz - 2 weeks late 5lb 11.5oz - 1 day late I had them all with either gas and air for 1st then just TENS with the other 2 and I can remember every moment so glad they were not any bigger. Having said that DS had a very large head and the midwife was amazed that I didn't need stitches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mutrix Farmers Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 My baby Son was 6lb 12oz but that was painful enough!!! I have much respect for mum's with heavy babies. Son's now a fine strapping 5ft 11" rugby player build now (and he's only 14 so he'll definitely be 6ft plus). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickvic Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 I'm 5ft 10" but I had little tiddlers in comparison. DD was 6lb 1oz (5 days early) and DS was 7lb 10oz and a week late! He looked massive in all his newborn photos compared to my daughter. My son did put 1lb on in 3 days though and I was only breastfeeding! He'd dropped to 7lb 5.5oz and when the midwife weighed him 3 days later he was 8lb 5.5oz, she had to check her scales were working properly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seagazer Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 I only had tiddlers - DD - 5 lb 5oz - 5 weeks early (hurricane night - extra scarey) ES - 6 1b 13 oz - 2 weeks early YS - 6 lb 8 oz - 3 weeks early Whilst I was having DD there was a 16 year old girl on the ward who had a baby that weighed 12 lb He literally filled the whole of those plastic cot things, she didn't look tall so don't know if the other half was. I have to say she didn't get out of bed much DD by contrast was the smallest on the ward at the time and was like a little doll Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janty Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 Do labours come into this. My son was only 8lb 12oz (only!) but he took a full week of slow labour followed by a 'proper' 23 hours of labour followed by a caesarian to be born. Little toad was looking where he was going according to the midwife and got himself stuck. Waters broke at the beginning of proper labour so the midwife kept putting her hand up there to put a probe on his head. The probe kept falling off. Do I qualify for some sort of award or medal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Looney Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 Oooh, this thread is making my eyes water! Some whopper babies out there! Mine was a mere 8lb 6oz - which I actually thought was quite big as we didn't expect him to weigh as much. I got to travel to hospital in an ambulance with lights and sirens which was a new experience! Actual labour was only 3 hours which wasn't bad for a first baby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Brown Clan Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 My word Ladies some little dumplings you have had mine were only tiddlers compared to yours Son no1 7lb 2 oz ( 1 day late ) 21 hours labour Son no2 8lb 2oz ( 6 days late) 3 1/2 hours Daughter 8lb 3oz ( 8 days late ) 45 mins and they were bad enough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seagazer Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 Do labours come into this. My son was only 8lb 12oz (only!) but he took a full week of slow labour followed by a 'proper' 23 hours of labour followed by a caesarian to be born. Little toad was looking where he was going according to the midwife and got himself stuck. Waters broke at the beginning of proper labour so the midwife kept putting her hand up there to put a probe on his head. The probe kept falling off. Do I qualify for some sort of award or medal? Mh YS was like that. I started having contractions on the 3rd December in the morning. Went to hospital and they thought I'd have him by the evening. The contractions started going off and I asked to go home. I left with them saying see you later tonight. I slept on the settee with a bin liner under me thinking it was going to happen the first night. It didn't. I can't tell you the number of relatives that rang up to ask if I'd had him yet I had mild contractions constantly (definitely not braxton hicks) In the end he came on 8th December (due date 28th December) and from the strong contractions until he arrived was roughly 4 hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 I was told that my 4th baby was large (well - that all of them were actually!) but that the scan couldn't predict accurately and I had to allow a pound either way. When I thought this through, I realised that they couldn't tell me if an 8lb baby would be 7lb or 9lb, so the whole thing was meaningless. I persuaded the hospital to induce me a week early because I said I was terrified of having another Caesarean with 3 children and then a baby to look after as well. At 9lbs 10oz, I'm so glad I did! He was my biggest and the only one I did without an epidural. It was fine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 Mine were tiddlers too in comparison! 8 lb 2oz - 4 days late, induced because the consultant thought he would be too big for me as I'm only 5' 1", got stuck, epidural, finally dragged out by forceps! 11 years later I finally got it right: 7 lb 2oz - 3 days late, 7 lb 13oz - 13 days late - both like shelling peas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shirl Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 I had 6lb 2 1/2 boy 12 days late 8lb 5 boy 10 days late 7lb 14 girl 2 days early and 9lb 4 girl 2 days late The last birth was the easiest but I used Hyp"Ooops, word censored!"irthing so I think that was the reason, rather than everything was so stretched she fell out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Couperwife Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 do you know - you lot arent "promoting" this giving birth thing at all you know I dont have any children - and i think thats the way its going to stay - I aint givin birth to no water melon cathy x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seagazer Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 But the thing is you remember the weight, the time it took but you seem to forget about the pain (if you had any ) once you are holding your gorgeous little baby. Never let anyone put you off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
