THE BIG BABY! follow up post – The third with still many more to come!
Pictured – a 39cm head circumference and no stitches for this super Mum.
Just because your baby might be bigger than average (or suspected of being) it does not take away your right to consider the birth you had originally dreamed of.
It is essential to discuss with your healthcare provider their experience in managing shoulder dystocia and what complications are associated with induction. If you are aiming for a physiological birth, you may want to seriously question the recommendation for induction without other medically confounding variables.
If induction is part of your birth plan and an informed decision-making process, then that might be the right choice.
Routine 3rd-trimester ultrasounds will identify more pregnancies with macrosomia but will not have any clinically significant effect on predicting shoulder dystocia (Moraitis et al., 2020).
BIG Babies... by Ashlee Anslow I am posting a big chunk of information on 'Big Babies' here and if it is too much (totally get it) keep an eye out for the next few posts where I will break down the info into more sizable chunks . An increasingly large number of women, due to…
BIG Babies...Part 2 by Ashlee Anslow A "Big Baby" follow up post - The second with many more to come Many women with babies identified as big are offered induction in hopes of reducing a rare but serious event - shoulder dystocia.
