Being induced with very big baby

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I've just been admitted to hospital for the third night in five days due to high bp. I'm on medication for my bp but it is still a bit too high.
Had my final growth scan today as well and baby is estimated to weigh 9.5lbs with a head diameter of nearly 11cm. I had to decide whether to be induced and at least try for a natural birth or to go straight for a c-section.
So, I'm being induced on Saturday. My doctor thinks it might be possible for me to have a natural birth because I'm quite tall. But I'm really scared it will fail and I'll end up having a c-section anyway.
Just looking for some words of encouragement and some success stories and/or advice.
Thanks! :flower:
 
didn't want to read and run.. good luck hun I'm sure you can do it!! believe in yourself :)
 
My DH's friend was 11 pounds !!!!! His mum said she had no problems :) I thought my Lo was big and the MW said to me they deliver big babies with no problems all the time xx
 
good luck hun ive no advice to give sorry only do what you feel is best for you.
 
Good luck, hope all goes well. My friend is tiny (5ft4 and a size 8) and she pushed out a 10 pounder no problems, aparently gravity is on your side so keep upright to give you every chance. Good luck again xxx
 
my friends delivered a 11lb baby and she is tiny and short. Have failth in your body and remember you are on the b est place
 
Good luck! I'm in a similar boat, only mine is breach too. Doc scheduled me for a c-section Tuesday, unless the kid has turned before that I will be meeting my LO Tuesday afternoon. She hasn't given me a weight in a few weeks, but was anticipating a 10 pounder. She did say the kid is measuring at 97%. I hope it goes well for you. I was certainly hoping for a natural birth, but I'm more open to the c-section now that I've had a little time to wrap my brain around it.
 
Honey, just trust your body! Our bodies are amazing things, once our babies fill our uterus to it's fullest capacity, we will naturally go into labour. Also, you will never grow a baby that is too big for you to deliver naturally, it is our body's natural defence! We were built to reproduce, our body's were built to open up like a flower, and bloom as our babies bare born!

If you are overly concerned, this might make you relax a bit. My sister has her baby at 39wks, it was a spontanious birth, and they knew it was a big baby. She is very small framed, and short. She delivered her BIG baby naturally without so much as a tear. She just trusted that her body would do as it needed in order to birth her baby!

Her baby was born a wopping 12Lb 2.5oz (5.51kg), with a head circumfrence of 38cm. He was a very big boy, and thankfully, because of the trust my sister put into her body, she went into her birth willing, and not scared. She just went with it all, followed her instinct, and delivered him they way he should have been born!

I think alot of problems stem from Ob's scaring their patients, telling them their babies are huge etc, and then saying that their pelvis is too small etc. I'm a firm believer of the cascading event of intervention. The minute they intervene once, it's like a chain reaction, one thing leads to another, then to another etc. Which will result in 2 things:

a) either an emergency c-section, which will fix a womans mind set into the whole "I can't have my babies naturally, my pelvis is too small", where as thats not the case at all, BUT they have completely lost faith in their body's natural ability.

or

b) The will have a traumatic birth, leading to major tearing, which again, will make them lose faith in their body's natural ability, and they will forever believe that their pelvis is too small, etc.


What I'm saying is, when everything is left to take it's natural course, with no intervention, and you go into your birth, willing and accepting, and trusting your body's ability, then you will have a far better outcome. there's no cascading event from them intervening even just once. your body is completely ready, so will just do what it was created to do!


I had a friend who was desperate to meet her baby. She was desperate for the whole birth experience, and couldn't wait. She begged her Ob to induce her at 39wks, which he listened to her. I tried talking her out of it, I tried telling her that if her body wasn't ready, it wouldn't work. This was my running commentary before her birth:

*they will give you the gels the night before.
*come break your waters in the morning.
*they will give you the drip
*you will labour hard for 13hrs
*they'll check you, and you'll still be only a few cm diatated
*they will tell you that there's failure to progress and you require an emergency section
*you will have emergency section

This is exactly what happened!
 
Heya I had my baby 11 days ago I was induced at 6.20pm on Monday and Lilly was born at 6.33am Tuesday she weighed 10lbs 3. We didn't know her weight I was told 7-7 1/2. I did it naturally so It can be done. Good luck
 
Hi,

I am being induced on sunday at 38+1 due to having GD and baby measuring higher than the top centile since 28 weeks. I had another growth scan at 36 weeks and was told she was already 8lbs 9oz. Scary! I'm convinced they might be wrong though, so will just have to wait and see.

Good luck to you. I'm sure you'll do great x
 
Hi there, just butting in from 2nd tri :thumbup:

When i had my son i had to go on the drip, my labour started naturally from my waters breaking but my contractions stopped when i had morphine so they had to put me on the drip to get things going again. Kind of like being induced, sometimes when they induce you they can use the drip, although this is normally a last resort.

DS was born an hour later weighing 10lb 1.5oz and i had a vaginal birth.

So you can have a large baby when being induced and i've heard that larger babies are easier to give birth to than smaller ones :shrug:

Good luck i'm sure you will be fine xx
 

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