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Kate Hudson...baby too big???

post #1 of 55
1/18/04 at 9:38pm
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So, I was reading some mag in the supermarket that Kate Hudson--Goldie Hawn's daughter--had her baby a few weeks ago via c-section because the baby was too big for her body. He weighed 8lbs.11ozs. The doctors told her that they needed to do a c-section because they feared the baby was growing too big for her small frame and estimated that it weighed close to 9lbs. Is this possible to determine this before labor even begins. My ds was 8lbs11ozs and I am 5'2", 105lbs. I had a vaginal delivery after pushing for 4hrs. I am just curious if this is a widespread problem--too big babies for women who are supposedly too small. When and how can you tell if this is an issue?
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post #2 of 55
1/18/04 at 10:00pm
As someone who had a 5# baby and a near 10# I can tell you frfom experiance. It makes no difference. Thier heads were the same size, tiher shoulders had to have been close. My 10 pounder had two more chins than my 5# baby buit fat is squishy. Dr. do c-secs on small women because they fear they thier might be shoulder dystocia and they have no idea how to deal with it Also i think a lot of Dr.s really think the majority of women are just looking for a good excuse to have a c-section rather than give birth. unfortunately I think they may not be too far off the mark.
post #3 of 55
1/19/04 at 2:01am
This is horribly sad
post #4 of 55
1/19/04 at 2:04am
Quote:
I am just curious if this is a widespread problem--too big babies for women who are supposedly too small. When and how can you tell if this is an issue?

The widespread problem is doctors, not us.
post #5 of 55
1/19/04 at 2:08am
Do I hear $$'s? Or maybe the doc was going on vacation and wanted to get that birth outa the way so used the size as an excuse.

Or maybe she didnt want to get streched out down there like whoever is on with Regis.


With my first I went to a Dr for my first prenatal and when she heard I wanted to do a HB told me I was to small, the baby would never fit.:LOL : When I may be tiny framed but let me tell you the babes practically fall out of me. The peri is the only thing to small, tears each time.
post #6 of 55
1/19/04 at 2:35am
My best friend i 4 ft. 10.5 in., and her ideal weight is 104. Her first baby was a 26 weeker- 1lb.15oz.(vag.) Number two was 6lb12oz, also vag. Number three was to be attended by a CNM in a hospital. When she reached her DD, they started the standard crap, even though she had a "proven pelvis". The ultrasound showed an eight pound baby, so the OB "allowed" the MW to continue care. Her son was born 9 days past the DD, and weighed 9lb5oz. Labor was 3 hours total, but during pushing, she felt progress stop. Suatting for pushing brought him out. Kate Hudson did not need a csec.
post #7 of 55
1/19/04 at 3:38am
I toture myself by watching A Baby Story sometimes, and I can't tell you how many times the mom has a scheduled c-section "because the baby is too big." Not only is that in and of itself a load of crap, but more often than not the baby that the doctors were sure was going to be at least 10lbs comes out being just around 8lbs or so. Umm, don't the parents then kind of question being told that the mom had to have abdominal surgery? It really drives me crazy.
post #8 of 55
1/19/04 at 4:02am
I am going to let everyone in on a secret. When I worked in L&D we had quite a few local celebrity types deliver at our hosp. They would have their ob deliver the baby and then the plastic surgeon would step in to tip, tuck and close. It was all planned. Not one of these moms publically would say they had scheduled c/s for that reason, it was always "the baby was too big" or "I tried but was not progressing" and so on. My guess is that was the real reason for Kate's c/s.
post #9 of 55
1/19/04 at 4:39am
Yeah I read the article in In Touch magazine and was SO PISSED at the big deal they made about "Kate's emergency c-section!!"
And Ryder was a WHOPPING 8 lb. 11 ounces!
:
I'm 5'0", pre preg weight is 105 and I gave birth to an 8 lb 12 oz baby and a 9 lb. 1 oz. baby with no problem at all.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
And in the same issue, they mentioned Debra Messing's belly is getting big and they speculated her baby would be born sooner than expected. What does one have to do with the other?
And..they showed a picture of Courteney Cox's little teeny buldge and they're asking about twins.
What is wrong with these people?!?!?!?!
post #10 of 55
1/19/04 at 5:22am
Tabloids......... can't help but laugh at em really..... :LOL
post #11 of 55
1/19/04 at 5:24am
In Touch isn't a tabloid. It's a for-real magazine.
post #12 of 55
1/19/04 at 1:07pm
Don't you guys know that celebrities are more important than us? Their pregnancies are always more important and their births are way more important. They have bigger, better babies than us and how they recovery is more serious than ours.
We just don't matter in this world!: : :
post #13 of 55
1/19/04 at 2:07pm
Goldie Hawn had all three of her children by Caesarean Section in 1976, 1978, and 198?.

I remember reading about the doctors telling Goldie that her babies were too big.

Are Caesarean Sections hereditary(?)

I guess they had the same inept doctor.



:LOL
post #14 of 55
1/19/04 at 2:09pm
Medical Studies and statistics prove that large babies are the main cause of obstetrical distress in doctors.
post #15 of 55
1/19/04 at 2:13pm
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Originally posted by applejuice
Medical Studies and statistics prove that large babies are the main cause of obstetrical distress in doctors.
*chuckle*....too funny.

IN re: to Courtney Cox....I'm *guessing* there will be specualtion about multips because she's been using fertility treatments. Not sure what they've been doing, but know they've made it public they've been using treatments and have had a hard time concieving.
post #16 of 55
1/19/04 at 2:14pm
Fame and $ can't buy everything;

that includes critical thinking and intelligence.
post #17 of 55
1/19/04 at 2:23pm
:abitT, but
RE: baby's weight

All of you L&D nurses: how often are those scales in the delivery room calibrated?

Do doctors tell you to lie about the weight to gain and/or confirm the "lie" that the baby is too big for a vaginal delivery?

I do not expect any response here, but I do recall weighing my baby brother, a moose, born at home when I was 14 in 1968. He kept moving, and the scale, standard at the time. kept moving, and I weighed him with my Father and finally decided that he was eight lbs eleven ounces.

I know everything is computerized now, but those cold rooms do something to the machinery and to the airpressure.

With all of mine born at home, I know that those tired midwives were not all very careful about being precise with the weight. My youngest was weighed with a fishing scale. In three days at the pediatrician's office, there was a marked difference.
post #18 of 55
1/19/04 at 2:28pm
A very dear friend of mine who is 5'5- 5'6 and about 115-120 lbs (give or take) gave birth VAGINALLY to a beautiful 11lb (yes I meant to type 11) 5oz baby boy! She had barely a tear and has a very small frame. 8lbs, 11oz? Puhleeze, amateur! Doctors can be idiots sometimes.
post #19 of 55
1/19/04 at 2:34pm
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Are Caesarean Sections hereditary(?)
Actually, if you were born that way it increases the chance that your babies will be. Not for any medical reason, of course, but because that's what your mom will tell you about birth (and rarely will they say anything bad about the procedure) so that's what you will come away with. Then when you're actually there, right in the middle of the hardest part, you'll remember there is a way out.
post #20 of 55
1/19/04 at 3:10pm
Soon, we'll be like Brazil, where the middle to upper middle class and rich choose cesarean birth to protect their private parts (!) while only the POOR have those icky vaginal births.
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