i know people who regularly give birth to 10-12 lb babies. they are at one end of the spectrum, for sure, but some folks can birth large babies w/out anything acutally being wrong, particularly if it's not the 1st baby. that said, the comparison baby looks more like it's around 6 lb w/ its legs drawn up, whereas the larger baby is almost laying flat. i'm currently wonder what her other kids look like, feature-wise, and what dad looks like. image

i found this comment by the father: Robert Nicholson said Shaune took after his grandmother, who weighed 5.9kg (13lb) at birth.

here is something else to add:

"He was ten days late, so I knew he would be a bit bigger, but certainly not the size he was. It wasn't until he started coming that I knew something was amiss."

Miss Ellerton was taken to University of Hartlepool Hospital when she started having twinges earlier this week. Nurses broke her waters but the birth quickly became complicated because of the size of the youngster. His shoulder became lodged behind the mother's pelvic bone and it took four midwives to set him free.

"It all happened so fast but they said it was an emergency and only afterwards did I realise how much danger we were both in," said the mother, who lost three litres of blood during labour. "If they had known the size they would have given me a Caesarean.

i'll add that AROM (artificial rupture of membranes) can cause problems as well as help them. there is no way to know if leaving them intact would have eased the shoulder through her pelvis better BUT it might have because it can help encourage the cervix to open w/out causing the baby's head to jam into place because there is usually fluid between the baby's head & the O of the cervix.

Edited By: orodwen 08/11/2007 7:14 PM. Edited 3 times.