I wouldn't worry too much as measuring with a tape provides no definitive as to size, only a guide. The only true way to check growth for dates is to scan. My bump has never been measured with a tape, the consultant feels by hand.

apparantly doing it with your hands is the old way they used to do it - mine did it both ways last time to show and they were pretty much the same - i guess it depends when they were trained as to how they prefer to do it x

they do always have a feel to c what way up he is but no chart.id like one as i think it would b good to c how he is growing

maybe il ask them on tues

mine are measured and put on a graph in the middle of green notes as well. she also has a feel to se what way up he is, dead quick and quite reassuring. why not get the tape measure out at home and see what is says?

mine are the same as the one below.

I'm really surprised by this.

mine has a poke and a feel and measures fundal height with a tape measure, she also does some sideway measurments and diagonals to check her height measurement, then she plots it ion to a pre-printed graph which shows a min, average, and maximum expected growth curve. This is somewhere in the middle of my green notes, it was added by the hospital at my first scan (10 weeks-ish) and was calculated to included my then weight and height. My notes have a description of what the midwife is doing when she measures, how she measures and how she will plot the measurements. Measurements and the graph start at 24 weeks (and go to 42) and mine have been done fortnightly since then.

Just goes to show how different care can be in different areas.

ive never been measured with a tape measure, they just feel the the way the baby is.On my notes they just put the number of weeks i am in the fundal height column, they do this when i get checked at the hospital as well. i had a scan at 33 weeks and got told the baby is large and ive got to go for a growth scan at 37 weeks but the midwifes just say its a nice size. i dont tend to take much notice of midwifes anymore.

yeh thats what mine does,just rights a little dash thingy....

maybe il ask on tuesday just incase,it would b nice to have a chart tho.

Hiya, my midwife always just pokes about with her hands too. She writes =D in the box for fundal height which stands for equals dates. I just assume she knows what she's feeling!

Did she not write anything in ur notes, think its on the first opening page. Didnt know they can measure wiv there hands. Maybe you will get it done on tuesday when u have ur growth scan but other than that i really cant help ya. Soz

help??anyone

my mw never measures my fundal height with a tape,only with her hand like guess work,i also have no chart

is this normal?should i ask her for a chart?

i have a growth scan on tues which has been booked since the beginning of my pregnancy (no real reason why i need one but im not complaining)could this b why they rnt bothering with tape measurments?