Baby measuring small / further growth scans

I had to have additional scans as I was high risk, but at my 20 week scan my baby was in the 6th percentile. By 32 weeks they were worried as she had a massive growth spurt within 2 weeks, ultimately she was born a solid 9lb at 39 weeks.

My little girl has just turned 2. I had so many scans for her femur length. She's perfectly proportional just small. I'm 4ft 11 so it's likely genetic for us. However that certainly doesn't stop her. I remember worrying everytime at the scans. She was born around the 2-5% & still is around that. But is healthy & thriving. Hope everything goes well ♥️

You can always take the growth scans to keep an eye on babies growth, then request a referral to the birth choice clinic, which is for people who are wanting to plan a birth outside hospital ‘standard guidelines’ arm yourself with all the facts, and advocate for yourself! Sometimes they can be soo pushy! But some babies are just small! As long as they are growing week by week and everything else is healthy you should have the birth you choose!

I had this with both my pregnancies, my son was born in 2024, was told he was on the 7th centile and had short femurs, estimated birth weight was 5lbs 8ozs, was brought in at 39 weeks to be induced, 5 days later, I had my son via emergency c section, I was prepared from him to be taken to NICU, he came out 7lbs, perfectly healthy, then with my daughter in 2025 I was having extra growth scans due to a higher BMI, everything was fine until 30 weeks when I was told she’d dropped down on the centiles and was on the 4th, estimated weight of 6lbs 4ozs, through my whole pregnancy I had been preparing for a VBAC with the support of all teams, then at 38 weeks I was told she had static growth between 37-38 weeks, they tried to force me into having a c section at 38 weeks but I refused, I wanted the opportunity to give birth so they broke my water at 39 weeks, nothing happened so it ended in another c section, she came out 6lbs 9ozs again perfectly healthy, home the next day with both baby’s

What they fail to tell most people is there’s a margin of error with scans up to 15%, with my son I took everything they said as gospel and went along with it but as they were wrong I was more declined to assume they were wrong again with my daughter, it’s very hard as you don’t want to take the risk when it’s all unknown, but just trust your gut, go for the extra scans they’re offering but don’t let them force you into anything you don’t want, I refused the c section early with my daughter and instead they offered me weekly scans, but they will not offer you anything alternative unless you ask x

My little girl was in the 2nd percentile and I was in hospital almost every week for scans, pregnancy day care etc, she was and is perfectly healthy, just small! I had a c section due to her being small and she decided the last month she wanted to be breech! Had her at 37 weeks 2 days and she weighed 5lb 2oz