27/04/2026
To those who have experienced unwanted intervention after being labelled with a big baby, we see you and we’re sending you so much love and seeing the strength required of you.
What happened to you matters and you don’t have to make sense of it alone. Our multidisciplinary team is here to support you in processing your birth experience whenever you feel ready.
And to those who are currently pregnant and navigating these conversations, you don’t have to figure this out alone either. Our team can walk alongside you to help you find the decisions that are right for you and your baby.
Have you been told you’re having a big baby? Or have you had this conversation with someone in your care?
If you’ve been told you might be having a “big baby,” it’s worth knowing:
Ultrasound estimates of weight can be inaccurate ∞ A suspected LGA label can significantly influence your care pathway
You have the right to ask questions and be part of
the decision.
If you don’t feel safe raising concerns directly with your care provider, you can ask for someone else, even if that means writing it down and handing a note to an admin assistant rather than saying it out loud.
For the clinicians here:
this study adds to a growing evidence base questioning the benefit of often routine LGA screening at term.
The authors found evidence of a labelling effect, where the diagnostic label, not fetal size itself, was the primary driver of increased obstetric intervention.
We need to be having better conversations with each other around this.
A note on the numbers shared in this post: these are relative risks. They show how much more or less likely something was to happen in one group compared to another, not the total number of people affected. But the pattern is clear and consistent across every outcome measured.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000293782600195X
