did your birth weight reflect your overall growth and adult size?

Just had a chat about this on FB, a friend was a heavy baby and is a tall and very well built lady as an adult, normal sized as a kid.

I was 5lbs at birth and really, really tiny and scrawny as a kid, I'm short now as an adult (5'3") and very slim build.

Both my brothers were very average weight and are both about 6' and slim build too.

I don't think there is a relationship between birth weight and length and childhood growth and eventual adult height/build?

I could google the science behind this but it's more amusing to see what AH comes up with!

Larianne

I don't know what I weighed as a newborn, maybe 8lbs? But there's a picture of me a few days old with really long legs. I still have really long legs.

drunkmonkey

Pics or GTFO

starbelgrade

Babies have a habit of getting bigger.

Don't all babies look the same? :pac:

iguana

Nope. I was a normal sized baby and remained average until about 3, at which point my growth slowed down and eventually halted at 5ft.

castletownman

Unless someone is actually Benjamin Button, I'm expecting the generic answer in this thread to be the same.

i.e "I was a small baby, only average height now" or "I was a big baby, even bigger now!"

iguana

iguana wrote: »

Nope. I was a normal sized baby and remained average until about 3, at which point my growth slowed down and eventually halted at 5ft.

Yep, this is interesting to me! I also know people who were born very small (not premature) yet were tallest in their primary school class!

I was just always a weedy yoke! Still am!

starbelgrade

Deleted User wrote: »

Don't all babies look the same? :pac:

Some are really cute and others are really ugly.

castletownman

castletownman wrote: »

Unless someone is actually Benjamin Button, I'm expecting the generic answer in this thread to be the same.

i.e "I was a small baby, only average height now" or "I was a big baby, even bigger now!"

That's only if they can't understand what the thread is asking.

John Doe1

you were adopted OP:p

starbelgrade

starbelgrade wrote: »

Some are really cute and others are really ugly.

Haha, all the same to me!

Seriously. They really do look all the same to me. Red, and small, and waily.

John Doe1

John Doe1 wrote: »

you were adopted OP:p

I wish. Then I could stop blaming my parents for my height/eyesight/temper! :pac:

starbelgrade

Deleted User wrote: »

Haha, all the same to me!

Seriously. They really do look all the same to me. Red, and small, and waily.

Much like the population of Cork then.

John Doe1

starbelgrade wrote: »

Much like the population of Cork then.

burn!:D

Polloloca

I was a little over 7lbs. Definately grew.

Cheeky_gal

Black babies are the cutest little things

Cheeky_gal

Cheeky_gal wrote: »

Black babies are the cutest little things

That's actually true, a friend of my housemate brought over her newborn, I usually hate babies but that thing was like a little doll! She was sooo pretty! White babies look like overriped tomatoes.

KittyeeTrix

My lightest child was 3lb 13oz and he is at 15 taller and much heavier/stockier than his brother who is 18.

My heaviest child was 9lb 10z and he is as thin as a child can be. He is gonna be really small frame as he gets older:)

blindside88

I was 2 pound 2(but I was premature), fairly short and stocky now. Just had a **** and it must be over my birth weight, should have weighed myself before and after who says child birth is tough

I think people are missing the word "reflect" here.

Cheeky_gal

Deleted User wrote: »

That's actually true, a friend of my housemate brought over her newborn, I usually hate babies but that thing was like a little doll! She was sooo pretty! White babies look like overriped tomatoes.

Golly dolls Have them all over my room

Dudess

starbelgrade wrote: »

Red, and small, and waily.

Much like the population of Cork then.[/Quote]
One has just quite literally lolled. :pac:

KittyeeTrix

KittyeeTrix wrote: »

My lightest child was 3lb 13oz and he is at 15 taller and much heavier/stockier than his brother who is 18.

My heaviest child was 9lb 10z and he is as thin as a child can be. He is gonna be really small frame as he gets older:)

Yep, further proof that birth weight has no relationship on your growth and eventual adult size!

Cheeky_gal

Cheeky_gal wrote: »

Golly dolls Have them all over my room

Are you that girl from Extras?

Jesus Wept

I dunno what I weighed as a baby. :-/

Andy Carroll

Andy Carroll wrote: »

I dunno what I weighed as a baby. :-/

I only know cause my godfather had this plate made up with my name, DOB and weight on it! And it's only cause of that I know my brothers were normal sized babies, cause my mother said so.

starbelgrade

Cheeky_gal wrote: »

Black babies are the cutest little things

"Oh Wayne, I'm the only married woman on the estate - it's not fair on our kids, they get teased at school: 'You've got a daddy! You've got a daddy!' they all shout. I wanna be a single mum, Wayne - and I want a brown baby - all the other mums have got at least one brown baby and I want one - and for that I need a big black man, and that ain't you. You'd best leave, lover . . ."

Battered Mars Bar

There's too much "cute baby" talk here for my liking ffs. Ugly fat bald things, eating, pooping and making noise then, nightmare like.

starbelgrade

Battered Mars Bar wrote: »

There's too much "cute baby" talk here for my liking ffs. Ugly fat bald things, eating, pooping and making noise then, nightmare like.

But they smell of baby & baby smell is the nicest smell in the world.

Orim

starbelgrade wrote: »

Some are really cute and others are really ugly.

And some of the babies have suspicious hair growths...in fact, if you take this baby's facial hair, this baby's moustache and this baby's sideboards, I think you'll get...I think you get Pat Mustard!

Cheeky_gal

Deleted User wrote: »

Are you that girl from Extras?

No idea what you're on about ..

discobeaker

My Grandmother told me a story about when she seen me in the hospital for the first time,afew hours after i was born. In her words,and i quote.

"you were a miserable looking string of piss"

Eh.... Cheers nanny.

I am told I was a giant baby - I am taller than average now but am by no means exceptional.

Cheeky_gal

Cheeky_gal wrote: »

No idea what you're on about ..

Ah, sorry, it was a joke from the show Extras. Darn. Joke fail.

jluv

My friends baby was born weighing 5lbs.She was upset as she had taken good care of herself during pregnancy. Another "slightly overweight" friend visited her in hospital and told her to stop worring as she had been 5lbs at birth and been going to weightwatchers ever since!

jluv

jluv wrote: »

My friends baby was born weighing 5lbs.She was upset as she had taken good care of herself during pregnancy. Another "slightly overweight" friend visited her in hospital and told her to stop worring as she had been 5lbs at birth and been going to weightwatchers ever since!

Hey, my mother used to get sh*t from other mothers in the hospital and later at the clinics or whatever when they weighed the babies and stuff, because I was so small and scrawny!

Screw them, anyway, I grew up just fine!

Sindri

My brother weighed more than me at birth and he's still a fat bastard. :pac:
He ate all the food that should have went to me so when I was born I had to be put into an incubator.

My twin weighed more at birth than me and was quite stocky and was always taller than me when we were younger and he still is. (Fat bastard). My older brother weighed quite a bit at birth, and now he's about 6' and 15 stone. He was always taller than most people his age when he was younger and he's quite stocky now. (He's a fat bastard too). :pac:

Battered Mars Bar

Battered Mars Bar wrote: »

There's too much "cute baby" talk here for my liking ffs. Ugly fat bald things, eating, pooping and making noise then, nightmare like.

I am with you. I can't stand babies.

I thought my housemate's kid was cute cause it was like a tiny black doll wrapped in a blanket, and I only had to look at it for a second.

Once kids are potty trained and able to eat without getting it all over themselves, and stop dribbling, then, I have loads of time for kids.

But not before that. Can't stand them, never wanted one, never think I will want one.

Sindri

Sindri wrote: »

My brother weighed more than me at birth and he's still a fat bastard. :pac:
He ate all the food that should have went to me so when I was born I had to be put into an incubator.

My twin weighed more at birth than me and was quite stocky and was always taller than me when we were younger and he still is. (Fat bastard). My older brother weighed quite a bit at birth, and now he's about 6' and 15 stone. He was always taller than most people his age when he was younger and he's quite stocky now. (He's a fat bastard too). :pac:

I think your family might have more of an issue with diet than genetics

I was in an incubator too, but it was because I was misdiagnosed at birth with a much more serious condition than the one I have. My low birth weight is probably related to my condition, but the fact that I was a tiny little kid (and adult) is not related to it! That's just bad luck

Radharc na Sleibhte

I was born 2lbs.
Still tiny.
Im like that wee fella off the voice show!

Radharc na Sleibhte

Radharc na Sleibhte wrote: »

I was born 2lbs.
Still tiny.
Im like that wee fella off the voice show!

Wee fellas make up for it in other areas.....

Generally personality.

Sindri

Deleted User wrote: »

I think your family might have more of an issue with diet than genetics

I was in an incubator too, but it was because I was misdiagnosed at birth with a much more serious condition than the one I have. My low birth weight is probably related to my condition, but the fact that I was a tiny little kid (and adult) is not related to it! That's just bad luck

To clarify fat bastard is a term of endearment, yet they still eat all my food! fat bastards

Battered Mars Bar

budgese wrote: »

Once kids are potty trained and able to eat without getting it all over themselves, and stop dribbling, then, I have loads of time for kids.

What's that then, 13 years?

saa

Not this again, my boyfriends mother and friends were talking, I wasn't paying much attention until they turned around to me and asked so what did you weight when you were born?

"I don't know..?"

......awkward silence

"oh.."

.... everyone throws looks at one another

.... changes topic.

KTRIC

I was a very large baby. Now a very large man

Thanks Mammy.

Battered Mars Bar

Battered Mars Bar wrote: »

What's that then, 13 years?

Nah about 3, maybe 4 if the child is awkward?

Sindri

Sindri wrote: »

To clarify fat bastard is a term of endearment, yet they still eat all my food! fat bastards

Yeah I get ya

Me and my brothers were bottomless pits, still are, will eat anything left unattended, and we're still skinny as! I might blame my parents for many genetic faults but that one is a nice one

profitius

I was a fat baby but I'm lacking body fat now. 6'1" and only 13st.

profitius

profitius wrote: »

I was a fat baby but I'm lacking body fat now. 6'1" and only 13st.

You sound like my little bro, he was a really puppy fat toddler, really chubby, but as a kid, in his teens, and now as an adult, skinny as they get... can't gain weight!

Tall guy too.

We all tried milkshakes as teens to gain weight, older bro cause he was paranoid about his appearance, me because I was sick of being accused of being anorexic, and lil bro cause he wanted to make the soccer team and wasn't built for it. We used out-of-date Ensure my parents brought home (pharmacists) and bananas, milk, fruit, anything to mix with the vile Ensures, and not one of us gained a pound. I started mixing chocolate chip cookies into mine, my mother gave out to me, but I still was underweight!

Only since I was 28 did I get up to a normal weight. Dunno about my bros, they look healthy but we don't exactly sit down and talk about weight!

Guess it goes to show, I was a tiny baby, they were normal weight, but we all struggle to gain weight as adults!

hcass

I was the biggest of all my bros and sister. 8lbs 13ozs and I turned out to be the skinniest and shortest of us all.