re: Wife just had 2nd child and he is a big one.

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gestational diabetes. that kid lived in a candy store for 9 months.

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Not sure if you are asking but no, she had a totally regular pregnancy. No high bp or diabetes

Congrats. My Mother, bless her soul, had 5. The smallest was 8-03, the largest 10-0. I was 9-5. All natural...whew.

Hope Mother and son are both doing well.

My second daughter was 9lbs 7oz. She was born naturally. My wife's beaver didn't turn to roadkill.

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No they aren't. Now that they cut horizontally instead of vertically its not bad at all.

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I think the point he was trying to make is that a c section is still surgery. And any surgery always has added risks on a person. I mean....they pull out the woman's organs during the c section and flop them on her belly so they can get to the baby...pull the baby out...then shove the organs back into mom through a small incision. Your body will need time to recover from that and you shouldn't be expected to just jump out of bed the next day and go about your normal routines as soon as you are released from the hospital.


The recovery period after a c section is gonna be longer than if the woman delivered vaginally. And the woman now has other concerns related to surgery to worry about (infection at incision, etc).


I'm guessing his point was that people don't always consider a c section as a "real surgery" when it is.

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Any of you baws had bigger new borns than that?

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4 Kids, 9 even, 9/6, 9/9, and.........10/8. So, yes.

Note: No C sections at all.

Both of mine were >9.5 lbs and a couple weeks early.

Big babies are awesome. Everybody is suprised when you tell them their age. It's hilarious.

C Section

That's big baby. Congrats!

I was a half ounce away from 10 lbs..

Biggest my wife had was 9-11..natural with no meds..