Mum Danielle Lincoln reveals she needed 200 stitches after giving birth to huge 5kg baby
Mum reveals she needed 200 stitches after giving birth to five kilos: ‘I haven’t been well since’
- Mom needed 200 stitches after baby was born
- Her first two babies were small and average – her third huge
A mother of three has revealed that she needed “200 stitches inside and out” after the birth of her last baby, who weighed a whopping five kilograms at delivery.
Danielle Lincoln revealed she spent 24 hours in labor with her third child, a boy, claiming he “split her front and back” on her way out.
The British mum had given birth twice before, with much smaller babies, and was told he would be a bit bigger – but had no idea of the painful reality of that.
“Given birth to a toddler the same height as the hospital crib at 42 weeks, a head the size of my hand and a double chin,” she said.
At her 40-week ultrasound, she was told to expect a slightly larger baby than her previous one, with doctors estimating an arrival weight of 3.6 pounds.
The diminutive mother, who is only 155cm tall, said her first babies, both girls, weighed 2.9kg and 3.4kg respectively “and still got stuck.”
A mother of three has joked about the birth of her third child – which was extremely traumatic
But the birth of her son was nothing short of traumatic.
“I almost bled to death and they damaged his collarbone, the poor baby could only have his head one way for months,” she said.
“My legs and hips and other things have never been right. If there had been communication, I would have had a C-section at 40 weeks.”
A year later, the mother can finally make fun of it – she recently made a video showing how far she had to be opened to give birth.
Danielle acted out her birth scene from the point of view of her midwife, who had never helped deliver such a big baby.
She was very shocked when she realized how big her baby was
“We saw the whole thing dude, first you were like woah, then we were like woah, then you were like woahhh,” she said, lip syncing to a popular Finding Nemo scene.
In the clip, Danielle held up a dilation ring for the first woah, a larger ring for the second woah, and a trash can for the third, showing how far she had to dilate to get the baby out.
The funny video certainly caught the attention of her audience with dozens of moms popping their own “massive” babies.
‘This was me too! The midwives kept putting my daughter on and off the scales thinking they were broken! Never again,” said one mother, dismissing the idea of having more children.
Her son would be slightly taller than average, but she didn’t realize he would weigh more than four kilograms
‘Don’t even lie, my first weighed 4.6 kilos and we didn’t get a second one alone. I felt like a circus performer,” said another.
A mother whose baby weighed 4.3 pounds described Danielle as a queen and said she “wanted to die” while giving birth to her own larger-than-normal baby.
Others revealed they were thankful their babies “came early.”
“My son was born at 38 weeks and weighed (of course) 10 pounds, so scared to think what he would have been if he was 40 weeks or more,” said one mother.
Most babies born full term in Australia weigh between 3.3 and 3.4 kilograms, with babies over four kilograms described as “big”.