I have had a great homebirth before and an uncomplicated vaginal birth in the hospital before that. this time I’m over 35 so I got dual care with an OB in addition to my midwife just to keep an extra eye on things…everything was super reassuring-good results on NIPT, baby head down, no gestational diabetes, no pre eclampsia, great anatomy scan, spine looks great literally all the extra stuff I got that a midwife wouldn’t do was just reassuring that it’s all good. BUT they just kept being like you have risk factors bc you’re over 35 and the baby is big (I know thats just how the medical model is but it’s still annoying). So any way the baby is big she was already 5 lbs according to them like a month ago and I’m 36 ish weeks now
but 1. my last baby was 8lbs 6oz and out in 3 pushes in basically a free birth (midwife didn’t get there on time we were home alone when he was born!)
the baby before that’s was 8lbs even also an uncomplicated vaginal birth
Those measurements are wrong ALL the time.
But still it kind of freaked me out and just felt overly negative so I actually stopped the dual care because I felt that I got all the tests and stuff I wanted and I’m almost full term plus constantly saying something bad could happen isn’t really care? My midwife is NOT concerned about the size of the baby.
But it still got in my head about the size of the baby and so I’m trying so hard to do anything can these last few weeks to prep for a good birth and avoid shoulder dystocia so any knowledge tips or resources or tips for helping prep for that please pass along!
Sorry that was sooo long