My sister texted me earlier, her water broke woot!

Only 8 days overdue, I think little mini man has a hefty dose of genes from our lazy side of the family

Wehey, keep us posted!
Hope all goes well.

ohhh good luck to her! let us know how it all goes, so exciting!!!

my impending nephew is apparently going to be bigger than his bro who was 9.5lbs. eek...

OUch Astarte, i think id rather not know if i was expecting a large baby.

Hope the labours are as easy and stress free as possible.
.....and congratulations in advance

My friend has just had her baby. The midwife said that she had to go for regular scans as the baby was quite small. 9lb 14 1/2 ozs small!!!!!!

i know, sounds awful doesn't it? my sis is determined that shes not having a section though! and at least this one is in the right position, kai couldn't decide if he wanted to be breach or not...

That is how much my first child weighed, no diabetes in the family or anything.  My second was just a bit lighter at 9lb 9oz.

Congrats to your friend!!!!

Guess with everyone chatting about bigger babies, guess my mom had it easy with Michelle being 4lbs 8 oz, and me being 4 lbs 9 oz  when born.  She says the delivery was easy, but the raising of twins was the hard part! 

My largest was 10st 14 1/2lbs, so glad there were never twins for me.
Karen

Good grief, tears to the eyes.

LOL....I have a size 8 (42) shoe so think I'm built for big babies....
Karen
Laughing even louder now:)   
I did mean pounds and ounces!
Karen

Hadn't noticed that you had put stones. My eyes are still smarting from the pounds and ounces.

Oooh, big babies all round then!!

She had the wee man last night, 10lbs and 55 cm Doing fine, although she lost 2 litres of blood through a difficult birth so they want to keep her in for at least 3 days.

Woot!

Gosh Karen, how did you deliver a baby that size!!

great news...welcome to the world little man.
Karen

wow! chunky babies! i have heard that various studies have shown that the bigger a baby is at birth (unless they have diabetes or another problem) they tend to have a longer life compared to people who were smaller at birth, which is good for your pair

I have 4 children and two of them were over 10lb, tested for diabetes on each occasion but I appear to be fine, Hannah was 10lb 6oz the heaviest and the last!

ouch. i think i will make the sensible choice and skip kids all together and just have dogs. far less hassle all round... not pregnancy, no labour, will eat what their given, if your careful no probs with unsuitable boyfriends/girlfriends, don't need to worry about how their doing at school...generally far more practicle

10 stone 14 1/2 pounds Karen????????????????? thats a   bloody big baby - do you mean 10 pounds 14 1/2 ounces?

Yeah....I....know, I did correct it though!
Karen