Looking big vs. baby size - Page 3

[Altair]

I'm very small (5'2 and 110 lbs pre-preg) and when I was pregnant I was HUGE in the belly. I gained 32 lbs and it was 100% a big enormous belly.

My baby was really big for me (9 lbs 4 oz). He actually *was* one of those babies that grew too big to be pushed out. Despite a 3 day labor with a HB midwife and a day of pushing, he needed a c-section yet had perfect positioning as confirmed by a pre-c-sec ultrasound.

So my big belly was in fact a very big baby and my cocky faith in my hips' ability to spread was blown to bits. ;-)

[shnitzel]

I am 5'3" and was 123 pre pregnancy and only gained 9 lbs. I looked tiny and measure a few weeks behind the entire pregnancy and I worked really hard to eat high calorie and often - ice cream everyday. I was sent for sizing ultrasounds and by belly size they were guessing a baby around the 5 pound range but at my sizing ultrasounds the baby was growing beautifully and was born at 41 weeks at 6 lb 10 oz which is about the same size as DH and I when we were born, I think at my 40 week appointment I was measuring 36 weeks. The receptionists at the doctors office couldn't figure out why it was my 5th ultrasound when they assumed it was my 20 week ultrasound. 

Funny thing is my sister is pregnant now and also has the doctors worried about her measuring small and hasn't gained much weight. Apparently our mother was the same way with us (she died when we were very little so we don't know details).

So for me the tininess didn't correlate with a tiny baby (thank G-d). 

The biggest downside is that I was starving the first 6 months of breastfeeding since I had no fat stores. 

[plantnerd]

I was huge.  At my first prenatal visit (6 weeks or so) I was 185, two days before I delivered I weighed 254.  My belly was enormous, I think it scared my midwife.  Baby was 8 lbs 4 oz, completely average.  Anterior placenta and a lot of fluid too.

[gravida]

 I get HUGE when I'm pregnant. We measured my belly circumference for both kids around 39 weeks and they were within 1/2 inch of each other. DD was 7 lbs 7 oz and DS was 8 lbs 12 oz. Big size difference and a nearly identical (and massive) belly.

[Bellabaz]

With dd1 I gained about 26 pounds (within my reccommended range). I was pretty much all belly but hte belly was BIG! =)

On the ultrasound they were estimating 9 lbs and up. My fam has big babes, so didn't worry or surprise me. Well dd1 was 11 days overdue and was only 7lbs14oz. Totally average.

With dd2 I gained about 20 pounds,maybe a little less. (I had a really weird weight gain with her in that I had gained roughly 8.5 kilos at 7 months and then I didn't gain anything after that although the baby continued to grow. The midwives couldn't understand but no one was really worried because it was obvious that the babe was getting bigger.)

Again I was all belly and the belly was once again BIG. Dd2 was 10 days overdue and weighed 7lbs12oz. Again average.

[DusterGal72]

I didn't start measuring "big" until 36-37 weeks with my first pregnancy. Before that, I was normal sized, according to the fundal height measurements. I gained 45lbs with my first. The only comment I ever had on my size was when I got a sonogram to estimate the baby's size at 39 weeks-- "you carry really well- the baby does not look like it's over 8 lbs- you must be long waisted."

#1: 45 lbs--> 8 lb, 14 oz baby, lost all baby weight within 4 months.

This second one, I'm sitting at 30 weeks pregnant with 33lb weight gain so far- might end up gaining more than I did with my first. :( I feel huge with this one compared with my first, but my fundal height is still bang on.