What do you consider a big baby? And a small?

[statlerwaldorf]

Jun 25, 2012 18:30:11 GMT -5 rootbeerfloat said:

I consider < 6lbs small and > 9lbs big.

Me too

[oregonpachey]

Not to outdo Amelia but my friend had a 13 pound baby. Her midwife was crazy. She (the mom) had GD and went overdue even though they knew she had an enormous baby.

Her next baby was a fairly normal size at 8.5 pounds.

To answer the original question I think 6 pounds and under is small and 9.5 and over is large.

[mlvmd]

I had DS at 36 weeks. He was 8.5 lbs and after four hours of pushing (and repeatedly seeing the head) I had a c-section. Except they couldn't get him out that way at first . They had to cut horizontally and vertically on my uterus. His shoulders were enormous. I definitely believe you can grow them too big.

[megs193]

Jun 25, 2012 19:24:10 GMT -5 @ameliapond said:

Guess my family is in the fucking enormous category. I was 12lb 4oz, my sister was 11lb6oz and her son was 11lb 2oz.

Her doctor didn't believe her when she warned her we had big babies. She had a vaginal birth no problem, but we're pretty sure the doc was kicking herself after.

Ouch! I would be scheduling my c-section. My 7lb 6 ounce baby had no problem fitting out of my pelvis but he still tore me in half.

[galaxy8227]

Jun 25, 2012 18:32:26 GMT -5 @savestheday said:

DS was 9lbs 6ozs. I consider him a large baby.

Same here, DS was 9'6 and 20 inches and the doctor called him a toddler after he was born.

[anna7602]

Jun 25, 2012 22:03:18 GMT -5 jenny1980 said:

I think anything over 9lbs at birth is big. Lucy was 8lbs1oz, but she was over two weeks early and probably would have been close to 10lbs at 40 weeks. She got huge really quickly.

Ditto this. DD was just shy of 8 lbs. at birth, but like Jenny1980, she was 2 weeks early and I had a bunch of growth u/s. She was packing on a lot of weight at the end and my doctor wasn't going to let me go past my EDD, even though the standard in her practice was not to induce until 42 weeks.

After birth, DD doubled her birth weight quickly, weighing in at 16 lbs. at her 2 month well visit. I considered her an average size at birth, but her rapid growth made me qualify her as a BIG baby. As she grew, I dealt with a lot of crappy comments about why she wasn't walking or talking yet simply because she always looked a lot older than she actually was. It was very, very annoying.

[everam01]

I think anything 9+ is big and anything less than 7 is small.

My twins were early (36 1/2 weeks) and were HUGE for twins - 8lb7oz and 7lb1oz. I definitely think N would have been 10+ lbs if he had been a full-term singleton.

[h]

Those are some really big twins! Wow!

I got curious and just googled to see if there is a medical definition of big and small babies. Apparently a baby less than 5 lbs. 8 oz. at term (bottom 10%) is "small for gestational age," and a baby more than 8 lbs. 13 oz. at term (top 10%) is "large for gestational age."

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Jun 26, 2012 7:13:10 GMT -5 megs193 said:

Jun 25, 2012 19:24:10 GMT -5 @ameliapond said:

Guess my family is in the fucking enormous category. I was 12lb 4oz, my sister was 11lb6oz and her son was 11lb 2oz.

Her doctor didn't believe her when she warned her we had big babies. She had a vaginal birth no problem, but we're pretty sure the doc was kicking herself after.

Ouch! I would be scheduling my c-section. My 7lb 6 ounce baby had no problem fitting out of my pelvis but he still tore me in half.

They actually let my sister go a week past her due date because the baby had tons of room to move around. They thought he'd be around 8ish pounds.

He's 6 weeks now and in 6-9 month sizes.

[jenny1223]

Jun 25, 2012 18:35:10 GMT -5 jinnifah said:

Small is less than 7lbs, big is anything 9lbs and up

I agree with this. DS was 10 lbs 1 oz. He is a big baby!

[Willis Jackson]

Why isn't anyone answering my dog question?! lol.

[GailGoldie]

to me 8lbs+ = big baby. smaller than 6lb = small baby.

in my case, my boys were "big babies" b/c Griffin was born 4w early and was 7lb 4oz (would have been 9+ if i went full term).... and my twins were 7lb 15.6oz (so JUST under 8lbs, which is quite big for a twin)... the other was 6lb 6oz, which compared to the other 2 was quite small, but is on the normal range for a typical baby- and esp for a twin.

[Ashley&Scott]

I tend to think small is less than 6 & big is over 9.

DS was 9lb 14oz, which is 97% CDC & 98% WHO.

OB had no clue he was that big, I measured right on track so they estimated 7-8lbs. I'm thankful they didn't know he was so big because I think if they would have gone straight to c/s without letting me try to deliver vaginally. (I had no issues with my vaginal delivery, I pushed for 23 min & had 2nd degree tear.)

[SusanBAnthony]

Jun 25, 2012 22:34:02 GMT -5 @246baje said:

Jun 25, 2012 20:05:07 GMT -5 bunch said:

. Granted we now know that we can't trust our ld nurses (joke) but every one that saw me asked how tall I was and how big the baby was measuring and then raised an eyebrow. After two hrs of pushing, lots of cutting and a vac, kid finally made it out. Granted her head was sideways, but I don't see that I would have gotten her out any time soon on my own.

Even without my specific case, I hate it when people say this. Lots of women throughout history died during childbirth.

Word. I would have been one of those women but perhaps that is one of the reasons it was so hard for me to get pg?

I understand why the comment would bother you, and yes women did die in childbirth. But at the same time, with no epidural or induction, most babies will come out. Way more than the stories you hear about a baby being too big (esp when determined by u/s, rather than during/after l&d). Whether that means 1% or 5% or whatever, I don't know, but no way is it as much as women think or worry it happens.

[aspentosh]

Jun 25, 2012 18:30:11 GMT -5 rootbeerfloat said:

I consider < 6lbs small and > 9lbs big.

Pretty much.

DD was 5lb 13oz and still is a peanut at 5 months.

[Deleted]

DS was 9lbs and 8oz.

My obgyn's still comment on how HUGE he was.

I think over 9lbs is big but it would have to be over 10lb to be huge to me.

My DH was almost 12lbs at birth and his brother was 11lbs at birth.

ETA : I do know DS was much bigger than normal babies, but I had a fantastic birth experience and delivered him vaginally with no complications, so he just did not seem that big to me. He was very easy to take care of being bigger though!