What was you birth weight and has if influenced your life?

If you look back a little ajanela you will see I was 3lb 6oz and my twin died within hours of our birth. It did mean my mother tried to have me 'wrapped in cotton wool' - quiet understandably as she gave birth to six children and only two of us survived - and she knew she wouldn't be able to have any more after us. However, little though I was right up to 11, when I became average height and weight, I certainly didn't think I was delicate and vulnerable - and I don't now! (how rude )

Most new born babies average between 5lb 8oz (2,500 grams) and 8lb 13oz (4,000 grams)apparently. I seem to remember my children's birth weight passing without much comment, one was 7lb 2oz and the other 7lb 6oz. I was just glad and sad I didn't have twins. It did mean I was in early on the scans though as they wanted to check as early as possible. I don't think everyone was having scans when I had my first baby.

Very Small babies can be treated as delicate and can grow up believing they are delicate and vulnerable.. a bit wrapped in cotton wool.

I was 9 lb, which apparently was a source of great pride, added to by me weighing two stone at six months. Breast and bottle fed!
By the time I had my children, the 'eating for two' excuse had gone, and babies over 7lb were frowned on.

I was 4lbs 10ozs and my mother said I looked like a fourpenny rabbit!

I was 9lb 8oz at birth and until menopause my adult 'stats' were 5ft 6in and 7st 7lb.

My sons were both 8lb 8oz and 22 inches but comeplerly different body shapes at birth! One was rounded and chubby and the other was as scrawny as a skinned rabbit. The chubbie one is now 6ft and thin as a rake and the scrawny one is 6ft 4in and thin as a rake.

My girls were both around 7lb, one is 5ft 6in and 9st, the other is 5ft 4in and 7.5st.

After my 9lb baby, also two weeks over due and induced, was born I was told I would be tested for diabetes if I had another large baby. Number 2 arrived on due date and weighed 8lbs. I have never shown any signs of diabetes during pregnancy or since and it does not run in my family, however my tiny paternal grandmother, about 5 foot tall with size 3 feet, had 11 children most of them on the large size.

My late sister and myself were about the same birth weight, 8lbs 7ozs. She was two years older. We grew up with completely different body shapes, she was slim to the point of skinny all her life and I have always had problems with staying a reasonable weight. Didn't do my confidence a lot of good when well meaning aunts asked where I had got my figure from since both parents were slim. Our younger brother weighed in at over 10lbs and has to be very careful about his weight too. So birth weight hasn't really been much of an indicator in our family!

I was 3lb 6oz, one of twins but sadly my twin died hours after our birth. My mother had already lost one child, had my brother who survived and then lost twins at six months followed by loosing my twin.

It certainly affected my life. My mother still worries about me over-much and I am rapidly approaching 70! She was basically told to take me home but not to expect too much. I had double pneumonia twice during my first year and the hope seems to have got thinner at that point. They hadn't reckon with my mum! However, I did get used to checking with my father if my mother said I had been ill because however it affected me it made her prone to exaggerate any illness. I have a great reluctance to tell her if I even have a cold to this day. I love her dearly but I can't bear the exaggeration.

4lb (premature) but now overweight

All the babies in my family have been larger than average (8lbs up to 10lbs 9ozs) and late, except the lone boy among nine girls, who was a bit early.
My midwife daughter says babies are getting bigger rapidly because so many mothers are obese.
I weighed 8lbs 1oz at birth, exactly the same as my own first baby. I am shortish and fat, eldest daughter is tall and slim.

I was 7lbs but still size 16 now. Ok size 12 for most of my life but bigger now older.
I had 2 sons 10.5 &10.8
Both very tall but not overweight.

I've no idea what my birth weight was. I don't believe birth weight has anything to do with the size of a person later in life. What you put in your mouth does however!

I was 3lb 2 oz in the 1950's and have been large all my adult life. But a skinny child. My Mum was 10 lb at birth and 7st and size 10 all her adult life. She didn't eat, just smoked and drank tea. I eat!

I was 8lb and arrived just in time for breakfast. Never missed a meal since!!

My Mum reminds me every so often of how enormous a baby was and what a terrible time she had with me weighing in at just over 8 lbs. I know she was fairly petite, but I don't think 8lbs is that gigantic.

I do think a lot of kids today don't get enough exercise tho, my children, even tho they were really heavy babies, always walked to school, from primary to 6th form college, played lots of sport, rode horses and bikes and didn't sit around much. I think too many children today hole up in their bedrooms with their screens!!!

Daughter was 4lbs 14 though full term. Throughout childhood it was a battle to get her to eat because she was so fussy and I worried about her being underweight. In her early 20s she went through a very bad patch and comfort ate and is now clinically obese.
I get very cross when people make comments about overweight adults and assume they were over-fed as children

I was one month premature and weighed 51b. Skinny until tonsils removed (none of us had them after about seven as I recall!) and then struggled with weight until I was about sixteen - fortunately it all fell off and I was svelte until mid fifties when I fear my metabolism packed up very abruptly and I am now much heavier than in my twenties.

I was premature and very small when I was born. I've struggled with my weight for most of my life [have been on a diet for 50 years!]. However it all started with me going on a diet when I was 16 to try to lose weight off my chubby legs. Had there been better information back then with regards to 'diet' rather than 'dieting' and gyms to go to where you could concentrate on toning up various parts of your body, I don't think I would have ended up with my weight constantly going up and down; I'm sure the dieting just ruined my metabolism.

I was 51b at birth and I really believe my mum kept feeding me to 'fatten me up' - she should not have bothered I did that quite well on my own hence I've always struggled with weight! My twin DS and DD were 6lbs 7oz and 6lbs 8oz back in the mid 70's DS is like a beanpole and DD is constantly struggling to keep her weight down. All down to genes I reckon!

Its interesting isn't it but I don't think we will be publishing our learned paper any time soon.

I was 8lb 4oz at.birth and i have weighed 9st approx since adulthood. My daughter now 41 weighed 9lb 10oz and is a slim size 12..my son weighed 10lb 3oz and he is a slim 38 year old. He never stopped eating as a child but was never even chubby once past toddlerhood. He still packs away an amazing amount of food. I do think it's genetic, my father was slim all his life and never worried about how much he ate. None of use has ever needed to diet.

I weighed in at 8lbs 2ozs, but was 22 inches long!
Grew like a weed, and was a very skinny 5ft 10in eleven year old! I was grabbed for my Grammar school netball team pretty quickly!
Have shrunk height wise, but gained width wise over the years, could eat anything I wanted without ever going over 9st, until pregnancy when I gained weight at an alarming rate.
I don't blame my weight gain on my birth weight, it's because I eat too much, I'm a little piggy! ???

I weighed 4 1/2 lbs at birth, my (non-identical) twin sister was 5 lbs. I came 20 minutes after and was a breech. We were 6 weeks early and spent the same amount of time in an incubator.
Mum went to hospital due to high blood pressure and she always said that having to clamber up onto the high hospital bed brought on her contractions!
Mum as a child was a healthy and slim weight but she got middle age spread - as have my sister and I. If we did all the right things - more activity and less food no doubt we'd be slimmer BUT it would be a constant battle.

4 lb 14. I'm five foot eight, and tho skinny as a child, have had to battle with being overweight since!