This reeks of a golf tournament or a vacation cruise. Which was it?
And how big was the baby, really?

Yeah, I wonder how big the baby really was. Since you know late term ultrasounds aren’t that accurate for size.

umm.. yeah. When I was pregnant with my oldest and was discussing the (possible) size of my baby, as I was huge! She assured me that it would be about 7lbs, maybe a bit more.. when they weighed her, she was 9lbs 3oz and 22 1/2in long. You just can’t tell, period. Sometimes I say out loud while reading these.. “dill hole”

Under his breath, my …….. he said that ridiculous statement out loud on purpose. What a jackass.

Generally you don’t grow babies you can’t fit through your birth canal. Yes, it happens, but it’s very very rare. I’m a 5’4″ lady who pre pregnancy weighed 120lbs and I gave birth, naturally, at home, to a 10lb 10oz baby with a 15 1/4″ head with a very minor tear. Only pushed for 5 minutes (he was my 2nd, my first was much smaller). I’m sure flat on my back with an epidural he might not have come out, but I had gravity working for me!

For every induction due to size, the doctor should have to pay the mother $10,000 if the baby’s estimated weight is off by two pounds, $100,000 if it’s off by three pounds.

If the estimated weight was so badly off that the baby ends up in NICU because of doctor-induced prematurity, the doctor should be issued a restraining order keeping him more than 50 feet from any ultrasound machines or ultrasound reports.

(BTW, the midwife under-guessed my fifth baby’s size by two pounds *after* he was born. They were very surprised when the scale tipped at 9 pounds even. Sometimes, they fool you.)

I’m not sure what my younger son’s head size was, but he weighed 9 lb., and looked it (to the midwives — it had been so long since I’d seen a newborn that I thought he was in the 7-lb range), and he didn’t have even a smidge of head molding. I only pushed a few times with him, too, with only “skid marks.” So much for “big baby = long pushing phase and/or tearing and/or cone-head”!

My first little one was 11 days past the EDD and she was my lightest, 7lb13oz.

I hate the “big head” comments from providers. The heads are designed to move through the cervix and birth canal. I just can’t wrap my mind around how so many OBs seem to willingly forget this.

Let’s also remember the overlapping plates of the skull – molding – and the ‘stretchiness’ of the pelvic outlet because of the ligaments – did he learn about those? Or are they still comparing it to a bowling ball through a straw?
It’s more like one of those smushy balls through a tube sock.
Facts, gentlemen, let’s stick to the facts.

I was told during a NST that my first was about 8 lbs. She came out the next morning at 10 lbs even.

I delivered a 12 pound baby at home without drugs, and it wasn’t the head that posed a problem….it was the football player shoulders. The DR pulled one arm to get him out, which resulted in a broken arm, but in a week or so he was completelt healed. I had NO tears.

and yet guys never worry about their dicks fitting….. why is that?

oh. wait. nevermind.