Hi Everyone, hope all are doing well in this heat!! And enjoying the sun!

 

I was informed at my doctors appointment yesterday that I am not 2 weeks ahead of what I thought, that I am just carrying a very large child. I am wondering if anyone else has experiencedthis. I am starting to get discouraged, I feel like this pregnancy is going on forever and I am going to be huge come the end of it, if that ever comes lol At the last ultrasound which was July 24th he was measuring 28 weeks and 6 days when infact he was only 26 weeks and 4 days and weighing 3lbs 1 oz. Help me hehe..All I want is a healthy baby hehe, but I want him out!!

Keep in mind that ultrasounds quite literally have a plus or minus THREE pounds ability to guage a baby's weight.  It has also been well documented that u/s is the *least* reliable method of predicting a baby's weight.

Eat healthy, exercise and make sure your blood pressure stays in a good range - then relax.  Your body was designed to give birth and, despite an insane amount of medical interventions, Mother Nature rarely grows a baby too big for your body to handle.

Weren't you saying earlier that your doctor said that you may have excess fluid (polyhydramnios) and that was perhaps what was making the baby seem bigger? Even though it didn't show in an ultrasound that there's excess fluid, it could still be high. I had quite a few ultrasounds with this last pregnancy and it showed having excess fluid only a couple of times, but I could feel that I had lots of extra fluid anyway. I just felt like I was carrying a lot of excess fluid, so much more so than with my first. Then I realized that when they measure the fluid, it's not really all that technical anyway. I would have one measurement that would show one number, and then have another one an hour later that was quite a bit different. So I'm guessing that probably it's just excess fluid. In any case, I wouldn't worry too much. They can really only tell so much from an ultrasound anyway and just make their best educated guess--nothing is 100 percent accurate with these things.