According to the most up to date maternity guidelines, a doctor should not be recommending induction or planned caesarean for a baby based on ultrasound weight estimation alone. In 2005 researchers looked at 14 studies and found that predicting weight using physical exam and ultrasound has an accuracy of less than 50%.

When your water’s break and baby’s first poo (meconium) is found, the cascade of intervention begins. Around 15-20% of women will have this normal variation of labour and yet women are being treated as distress of the baby is confirmed and being told that they’re baby will absolutely inhale the sticky fluid resulting in complications (which is not true).