How much did you weigh when you were born?

I was a 9 pounder!! And only 17"! I was as round as a basketball!!How about you?

My poor 5ft tall mom...

I was full term but low birth weight. Spent a month in an incubator.

I was rawther small for arriving right on the day I was due!

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Cesarean was a must!

incubator. Mom had a combination of 6 miscarriages and still birth's before I was born. They gave up and adopted, and 2 yrs later I was born...

I like to tell people that I am the 'miracle child'...ha!

My kids each outweighed me by a pound.

My mom was only 5-foot, 96 pounds, when she got pregnant.

which is ironic considering my current weight (145 pounds)

and somewhere between 17 and 22"

Do they get smaller with each generation???
Just askin'.......
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They're not getting smaller.

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Why do I hear my mother saying "like shoving a basketball through the eye of a needle"....

I'd like to put in my order for every drug known to man now. And I'm not due 'til next June!

it's like like shoving a basketball through a coke bottle top!


:P

I feel much better now....

it's like squeezing something the size of a watermelon out of something the size of a lemon! :o :scared:

a Saint Bernard coming through the cat door...

(Thank you Jeff Foxworthy!)

:)

No worries....no pressure.....I'll be fine.....Do they have do it yourself kits for epidural? Ya know...don't want to wait too long. Couple weeks in advance oughta do it.

epidurals to make it all go away. Just stay in shape and do your "special" exercises. Oh and enjoy your sleep, lack of sleep is really much harder do get through than childbirth. IMHO :D

even if the kid is big you will be fine.

Even if the drugs don't work quite right, you will be fine.

Welcome to motherhood. :hi:

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she'd say, "Too dang much!" I think I was 8.7 but I was 22 inches long. The very first thing my dad said when he saw me was, "Dang she's got big feet."

I was a long and skinny. Now I'm long and fat. Go figure.

LeftyKid was 8 lbs 6 ozs at 44 weeks gestation.

4 lbs, 6 oz. My twin sister was 4 lbs, 9 ozs. We stayed in the army hospital for 2 weeks until we finally reached 5 pounds each.

was 9lbs 7 ozs. Full term and my blood pressure was out of control.

There's a reason she's an only child!

My mother had five children; I was the third. All of her children got progressively bigger (which isn't unusual).

My kids were:

8 lbs, 1/2 ounce
9 pounds, 8 ounces
10 lbs, 9 ounces

lucky 7's
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As if I needed another. ;)

same height now....do we weigh the same too? :D

115

I weigh 130 but am only a size six :D

I know I was over 8.

My birthday is in a few days and I'll post a pic of baby me then for your viewing pleasure. :hi:

Of course, I am a twin.

arrive four weeks early.....

I weighed 5 pounds 8 and 1/2 ounces, and was 20 inches long!

It was the last time I was skinny.....

My girls were much bigger and healthier: My oldest came in at 8 pounds, 13 ounces, and 22 inches long.

My youngest came in at 10 pounds 6 ozs, and was equally long as her sister....

And, no, she was not a caesarian section! I did some mighty pushing, though!

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I'd like to see some of these misogynists do that :D :D

It WAS extremely hard work.....I never pushed like THAT before, or since!

She was worth it, though......my beautiful baby girl....now she's 33 years old, married with a son and a terrific husband.....

*sigh*

:D :D

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Yes, she was! My friends all thought I was having twins.....rofl!

When my neighbor came over to bring a gift and admire her, she said: "It looks like she's ready for meat and potatoes, and something for dessert!" And I was nursing her.....no supplements...

Neither one of my girls ever looked "new.".......

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but he was a full month late so his head didn't mold very much. Luckily I'm a strong girl, it took me 23 hours to dialate enough to push him out but just under an hour of pushing.

When he was born he looked like he'd have crawled out of the room if you set him on the floor, he was so big and robust and alert. (I assume this was because he was so late- if the kid had taken any longer he'd have come out with a backpack and a lunchbox.)

He was a chunky one, too. From his birth thursday evening to his first checkup Monday moring he went from 8 lbs 5 ozs to 12 lbs. :wow: All on breastmilk, of course. :D

I got the twins thing a lot too, probably because I put on 45 lbs. :blush:

:woohoo: for mommies and nice fat babies!

... but the doctor decided to induce labor, because he was leaving on a 3-week vacation. (This was back in the day when this was not only done quite frequently for reasons of convenience, but he felt he could actually admit this to my folks!)

As mentioned earlier, I did come out a bit small ... I guess we'll never know how much of this (and my struggles with bronchitis, etc.) may have been connected. Luckily for me, I was born in Canada rather than 30 min away in Buffalo or Fort Erie ... and Medicare had been introduced a few years earlier ... so my dad didn't have to rely on a novice teacher's salary to pay my medical bills.

especially with my youngest - he was 10 lbs, 9 ounces.

I did not have a C-section, and in fact, despite his weight and his big ol' 14.5" head, he was the easiest to birth!

For the record that is HUGH!!!1111. I mean that is one SERIES-ly bi baby. ;)

I'm glad it went well for you. :hi:

when you say no?

There's only one place that train of thought leads.

I was born at home. No scale.

I looked like a skeleton. Gee, I wonder why doctors now tell mothers that they shouldn't smoke during their pregnancy?:sarcasm:

OTOH, my daughter was a ten pound baby and 20 inches long. She looked like a butterball turkey.

I was a little un.

I've grown since then.

You were a premie, I'm guessing?

You certainly turned out well, though.....

:loveya: :hug:

Yup, two months early.
But I ate my Malt-O-Meal! Guinness didn't hurt, either.

When people say I am a 'survivor', they usually refer to the childhood horrors most kids don't even have to think about, never mind endure. :)

I think that just about says it all

I was a month early.

and I don't remember how *tall* I was.:shrug:

Our family doctor used to worry that my mom would be prone to diabetes because I was so big when I was born. (Apparently, the weight of your kids is a factor.) When I hit 5' in the 4th grade, he figured I was simply meant to be bigger than average.

I was 2 or 3 weeks early.

The other night I was going through a bunch of stuff that my mother had saved and found my baby book.

They don't know exactly how much, because they kept me in an incubator for the first 2-3 days, since I "looked kind of small".

I wasn't "born" so much as "grown" in a vat of gelatinous embryonic fluid.

I was the butterball turkey, but I was a lucky baby. My Dad says that was the first time he ever won in Vegas was after I was born.