What's the average sized baby these days (your personal observations)?

Question

Back in the day when I had my first, everyone said he was tiny (6lbs. 9 oz and 21 inches long) When I had my second baby, she was 8.8 oz and 22 inches long and everyone said she was tiny too. Wish she felt tiny coming out.

Anyway, I read somewhere that the WHO average hasn't changed in 10 years and the average weight of the human newborn is 7.9 lbs or something. Well, what have you personally noticed to be the average in your neck of the woods? Where I am, it seems like everyone is giving birth to toddlers...10lb ers and above seem to be the norm, not so much as a vague look of shock about those jokers anymore.

Are they putting steroids in the prenatal pills these days or are humans just getting bigger due to evolution or something and my body didn't get the memo?

Answer 1

Yes, people are getting taller and bigger in general but this is a slow process and hasn't varied really over the last 10-20 years. Moms are getting fatter and they are encouraged to gain more weight, thus bigger babies. Also moms are older, thus more complications like gestational diabetes. And the advent of fertility treatments gives women the chance to have babies who previously were too old or whose bodies wouldn't conceive naturally.

Answer 2

I am in no pissing contest with anyone to have a big baby, and my doctor is dead set on me having a 6 or 7 pound baby, but I have noticed that everyone I know has babies that are 8lbs and up. As long as my baby is healthy then I don't care how much mine weighs but some people tell me I am so small for being 38 weeks but I think I am going to have a small baby and then have to listen to everyone else about how big their kids were when they were born. So the answer would be...I have noticed 8lbs and above...

Answer 3

I just had my first (boy) on Christmas Eve. He was 7 lbs 8 oz. My friend had a baby (boy also) 1 month before me and he was 7 lbs 12 oz. So I'd say the average is in the 7 lbs range.

Answer 4

Mine were average boys 7 lbs 6oz ( I gained 15 lbs), 7 lbs 14 oz ( I gained 40)and 7lbs 6 oz(gained 25) all natural births and no meds. Perfect! Too much fattening foods and no excercise for kids having children now days.

Answer 5

My son was 8 lbs 1 oz @ 36 weeks they estimated him to be about 10 - 12 lbs at full term.....

My neice was 6'12....My nephew 9'1, My friends baby was 9'7 and I know someone who just a 10lb 9 oz baby.......my aunt just had a 8 lb 7 oz baby

Answer 6

Mine was 8 pounds, 6 ounces. I thought that was average. But there were 2 other girls at work, who had babies right around the same time........one had 6lb 4oz, one had 7 pounds 2oz.

The average baby that I see around here weights right about the 7 pound, 9 ounce weight, or smaller....

Answer 7

I say anywhere from 7 to 10 lbs

Answer 8

when i had my son two years ago he weighed 7 13 and half ounces. everyone told me he looked so big. and just because your fat doesnt mean your going to have bigger babies im a very big big girl and my son is an average sized baby and hes almost 2 now and hes still averaged sized except being a little tall for his age

Answer 9

6 to 9 pounds is considered healthy.

My son was 6lbs 7 ounces...and he was tiny bundle.

Answer 10

Among myself and friends, most of our children were all in the 7lb range, with a couple 9 or 10 pound exeptions.

I think gestational diabetes tends to make for bigger babies, and also, hormones in meat may make a difference for those who eat a lot of it.