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

Out Of The Night

I was around 9lb when I was born. I was a chubby baby. I remember my mam referring to me as 'a great feeder'!:D. I am now about 5'3 or 4 and around 8stne 5lbs. So my birth weight had no bearing on my current size. My brother was 12lb and there's not a pick on him!

MAMMY GIVE MEEEE SAUSAGESSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Battered Mars Bar

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Out Of The Night

Out Of The Night wrote: »

I was around 9lb when I was born. I was a chubby baby. I remember my mam referring to me as 'a great feeder'!:D. I am now about 5'3 or 4 and around 8stne 5lbs. So my birth weight had no bearing on my current size. My brother was 12lb and there's not a pick on him!

MAMMY GIVE MEEEE SAUSAGESSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reminded me of my lil bro who was a very chubby toddler sitting in his highchair at breakfast shouting "GIMME LAMMI!" (Salami - leaving this open to god knows what kind of abuse!).

dave3004

I was 10lbs 4, my younger brother was 10lbs 9 !

We are both in our 20s and not a pick on either of us.

Poor poor mother. I'd say it was like a car crash outside a butchers down there after she was done having us !

grenache

9lbs 2oz. I'm now 5'9 and thin. So no.

carbon nanotube

Deleted User wrote: »

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

has anyone actually said 'ohhh what an ugly baby'

Battered Mars Bar

carbon nanotube wrote: »

has anyone actually said 'ohhh what an ugly baby'

Very tempted sometimes

carbon nanotube

carbon nanotube wrote: »

has anyone actually said 'ohhh what an ugly baby'

Behind the mother's back, nearly every single time!

I don't get the whole "babies are cute" thing. They're not. Lambs are cute, kittens are cute, puppies are cute, babies are things you raise for three years before you get any sense out of them, then they start to become cute. And little people. I don't want to be responsible for a little people!

1ZRed

I was nearly 10 lbs and really chunky!:D
I'm nearly 6' now which is good considering both my mom and dad are 5'6.

1ZRed

1ZRed wrote: »

I was nearly 10 lbs and really chunky!:D
I'm nearly 6' now which is good considering both my mom and dad are 5'6.

Lucky. My parents are both average height but I am and always was a shortarse.

1ZRed

budgese wrote: »

1ZRed wrote: »

I was nearly 10 lbs and really chunky!:D
I'm nearly 6' now which is good considering both my mom and dad are 5'6.

Lucky. My parents are both average height but I am and always was a shortarse.

It may be luck or just mean I'm the milkman's son:(

some random drunk

I was a big baby.....and some people say I still am.

1ZRed

1ZRed wrote: »

It may be luck or just mean I'm the milkman's son:(

How tall was the milkman?

1ZRed

budgese wrote: »

1ZRed wrote: »

It may be luck or just mean I'm the milkman's son:(

How tall was the milkman?

6'. It's just coincidence though right? RIGHT?!

1ZRed

1ZRed wrote: »

6'. It's just coincidence though right? RIGHT?!

I dunno, there seems to be a lot of tall guys around your age in that neighbourhood?

Mick990

I was 3 weeks premature and weighed in at impressive 5lbs I'm now 6'1 and a little over 16 stone . I just can't get passed that coming premature bit

danniemcq

Think so, my ma did ask the nurse if i looked ok to her,

then as i started getting older i was "lovingly" refered to as "the drip that never dropped"

6ft 2 now and 10 1/2 stone so still thin and lanky

Abi

Prematurely born by nearly a month, underweight at just 5lbs. My parents were scared to hold me because they said I looked so fragile, I was in an incubator for some time as a result anyway.

I'm a towering 5"2 now

BunShopVoyeur

I don't think it has much bearing on what size you'll end up. I was a small sickly baby, I think about 7 pounds. Now 6 foot and 14 stone.

sunflower27

I was about 6 lbs with long legs. Average height now 5'6 and long legs

Andy Carroll

Andy Carroll wrote: »

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

me neither, i've never cared to ask

TPD

I think I was a normal enough sized baby, and I'm 6' and around 13st now. I did have some breathing problem when I was born (turned blue apparently), so I was put in an incubator beside all the premature babies, and as such am a giant baby in everyone's memory.

saa

I've ended up being pulled into a lot of conversations about babies weight, someone says oh and the baby was 9 pounds can you believe that!
And I just stand there and nod and think wow yeah isn't that about right.

But then again if I have my own baby I'm sure I will care a bit more about the difference between a 6 and 9 pound baby.

Nothingbetter2d

i was 9lb 10ounces (the heaviest of all of my parent's kids)

im now 34 years old 5' 7" slightly overweight about 13 stone but not really fat (i have a bit of a gut but part of that is down to being bloated alot due to having IBS the other part would me not exercising enough though i do walk daily)

kylith

I was 10lb 4oz and am now 5'6" and about 9.5 stone, so about average for a woman. The smallest of my brothers was about 6lb and he's a strapping 6'5".

One of my uncles was 14lb when he was born, something I think contributed to the fact that his mother ended her days bedridden. He's not quite the shortest of his brothers, but is very fat, although the men in my family run that way.

Katgurl

A monster baby at almost 11lbs, a monster child and would be a monster adult if vanity didn't prevent it

Catari Jaguar

I was in an incubator because was such a low birth weight. Was always tiny and I stopped growing at 5 foot 1. But my Mam is my height and had the same figure... so I dunno.

starlit

It might have had a bearing on it but don't think it reflected me completely what adult size I am I think adolescence had a bigger role to play in that. Though in terms of my features ya I say my birth size and weight may have had a bearing on it but then again its from when you are a baby to teenage years, DNA/genes, sleep and nutrition have a huge bearing on it.

I was small enough at 4 lbs but turned out grand like petite, 4 ft10-4 ft 11 adult without shoes with shoes be 5 ft or more, yes but think it was more to do with adolescence than anything!

ziggy23

Yea I've always been a puddin was 9lbs 6 born. Some babies are really ugly but a lot grow up beautiful. I know everyone thinks their own babies are the most beautiful but I have to say my son was the most beautiful baby I've ever seen:D Didn't get it from his parents anyway!

Bullchomper

I was 8 pounds when I was born and I'm 5" 2.5. I think feck the weight you were born, it's all in genetics, my mother is exactly the same height. My bones are quite tiny and so are hers.