Baby weight?

[AmesHk]

How do you find out how much your baby weighs? I'm 31 weeks and seen some people seem to know how much there baby weighs. I don't have another m/w appt until 34 weeks

[Clairew7]

Hi AmesHk,

After 28 weeks they should be measuring your bump and plot this on a graph in your green book. this gives them the projected growth and weight of your baby. On mine it's got an 'average' line based on my height/weight and BMI before I was pregnant and then upper and lower growth lines.

They then put little crosses on at each measuring, which can indicate how much your baby weighs at that poit, and if you follow these through to estimate where you'll measure at 40weeks it will give the baby's estimated weight at delivery....

I'm 32+5 weeks and after 2 measurements mine's just outside the upper line and on track to be a whopper probably 9 pounds if I deliver on my due date...so I'm actually hoping I'm early as I'm only small (but have a 6'2 husband!)

[AmesHk]

Oh I see. M/w not filled in my green notes. But at 29 weeks fundal height was 29 so guess read the lines for projected weight in grams. What do the 3 lines (10th,50th,90th) mean?

I'm sure doesn't matter I'm just curious!

My friend just had her baby girl 2 weeks over and she weighed 9lb 1oz!!

[Clairew7]

Oh bless you, they are quite good at filling in my notes. the 50th line is the 'average' for your weight/height/bmi and then the 10th and the 90th are the upper and lower of what they consider normal growth, anything outside of these lines may be considered too big or too small and you might be referred for another scan or more frequent monitoring.

As I mentioned I'm currently plotting above the 90th line, but they don't seem too worried at the moment as it's following the line and there haven't been any sudden jumps in growth, which is more what the look out for as a sign of gestational diabetes etc.

Yep if you have a look at where you measured before, and if you know what you measure next time you should be able to see roughly how much your baby weighs.

Good luck with the rest of your pregnancy too.

Cx

[AmesHk]

Ahh thanks Claire , interesting to know these things. All so new and exciting! Good luck with the rest of your pregnancy too a x

[Clairew7]

You are most welcome! It is amazing how much information there is to get your head around, especially when you're a first timer like me and all a bit clueless about what to expect when! It's so good there's sites like this, think I'd have driven myself mad by now if there weren't other people wondering the same things as me!

Cx

[kemzy1988]

Hi Girls, i was measured on wednesday for the first time as i have just reached 28 weeks. I am above the line and in my midwifes words on the bigger side of the scale. This is my second pregnancy so i did expect a slightly bigger baby but im panicing now that im having a giant!! I dont really understand it though, when i was pregnant with my Daughter i followed the line in the middle all the way through my pregnancy perfectly and they estimated her to be around the 6lbs mark, well she wasnt, she was 8lbs 9!!!!! This time im measuring bigger but im smaller than my friend who is 2 weeks behind me, smaller than i was in my last pregnancy and im still in size 12 clothes ( my size before pregnancy) but im measuring big!! Im hoping it all water or that she made a mistake but with my luck both highly unlikely!!! x

[Clairew7]

Hi kemzy1988, I was hoping the same, but my second measurement came from a scan, so they measured the baby and it still predicted a little whopper, so I can't pretend it's all fluid! I was hoping that as it's my first and I was so very sick in the beginning it would be smaller...but no such luck for me either!

Good luck to you, and fingers crossed yours is just the fluid or that they've measured wrong as this happened to a friend of ours. xxx