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This is really a question for second+ time mums...


I had a scan at 28 weeks which showed my baby to be weighing 2lb 14oz. The average weight at 28 weeks (according to BabyCentre) is 2.22lb which I take to mean a fraction over 2lb 2oz.


Does this mean I'm in line for a monster baby? Is the fetal weight from scans always accurate?

I had to have lots of scans during my pregnancy as had unequal uterine artery pressures and gestational diabetes. The point of the scans was to check the bugglet was growing properly, and each time they measured her there was an increase. However, the weight estimates must have been way off - the last scan I had was at 39wks and their estimate was 6lb 3oz, she was born 6 days later weighing 4lb 10oz!

The bugglet was all limbs though which I think threw out the equation they base estimates on.

Agree with others. Even at 40+1 they didn't think my second was going to end up 10lb 4oz (even though I warned them about big babies in the family and that my first was 9lb 4oz)! I wouldn't worry anyway. My lovely 10 pounder is now a very normal sized 5 year old.

I was consistently told that my first was a 'small' baby - I got scanned every few weeks from 20 weeks and went off buying premature clothes for when she was born, expecting her to be tiny......in the end she was totally normal and too big for all the clothes we had....my mum was delighted to have to rescue us with normal sized baby clothes.


If the scans are picking something up in terms of size then it's probably better that they are aware there is the possibility of there being an issue. It's better you/they anticipate a big/small one and then it doesn't happen than the other way around! But don't rely on it.

I was scanned on the day I went into labour and told my baby was 9lbs 12oz, and later that day she weighed in at 8lb 9oz, a friend was given extra growth scans because they kept telling her that her baby was small and she weighed in at 9lb 4oz.

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