Baby size and EDD

[Anonymous]

Ladies
Maybe i am going too crazy digging too dip into my u/s reports, but....
Here is a new problem I found to worry about. From week 12 my baby was measuring 1 week ahead.
At 21 week BPD, HC, FL and AC were about 1 week ahead my EDD. At 29 weeks FL and AC are at 29 weeks and BPD and HC are about 2 weeks ahead. It kind of tells that head started growing even faster and stomac and leg kind of stowed down. I.e. there is 2-week difference between head and leg/stomac. I am now going crazy about these number. I read that 3rd trimester measurements are often unreliable, but still ..... Maybe somebody know some web sites where charts would show what is normal for what GA???

[Anonymous]

I was in the exact same boat and fretting. My OB implored me to stop because it was common for head to be measuring bigger. I was always measuring ahead. I ended up having a largish baby, but not insane. You'd think I was giving birth to an elephant the way I was measuring. Don't worry.

[Anonymous]

Thank you very much. I did hear that usually head grows faster and usually 3rd trimester measurements are not very accurate.

[Anonymous]

There are lots of gaps between measurements. It is totally normal. If you have any concerns though, you should bring this up with the doc.

[Anonymous]

Well, the doctor is not concerned at all. It is just my crazy digging into numbers... I searched inetrent and found very different information from being totally normal to potential abnormalties (like soft markers). That's what drives me crazy/

[Anonymous]

The biggest mistake is to look at Google when you're pregnant!

[Anonymous]

That is so much true. I woke up at 6am today and was thinking about the sizes, and tried to stay in bed until 8am, could not, went to google.

[Anonymous]

My Ultrasounds showed my son's head being extremely large, but it wasn't. At his first ped. appointment at 4 days old, it was only like 60th percentile (though at 8 lbs and 21 inches at birth, he was much higher in those areas). So try not to worry... The U/S measurements are not always that accurate.

[Anonymous]

The range of error the futher along you're in the pregnancy swings like 2 weeks- I flipped out a lot too.. I also thought my son would be super short legged due to his femur measuring behind- but he's not.. neither was my daughter who i also fretted about.. just try to remember than the range of error is HUGE

[Anonymous]

ladies, hank you very much for your posts, it really helps to sleep, so I am hoping to sleep more than 6 hours I slept in total last night

[Anonymous]

sweet dreams