How do they measure baby’s weight?

Question

I don’t think I’m getting another ultrasound before he’s born and yet everyone is saying at their doctors appts what their baby’s weight is at..:/ I’m confused. My next appt is at 30 weeks next week but there’s no ultrasound scheduled

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Every Dr is different! Wth my first, I got an ultrasound in the first trimester for a dating scan and one at 20 weeks! That's it! But this time my placenta is low lying so tomorrow I have my 4th one. So they measure in there and tell me how big they think he's measuring. But otherwise I wouldn't know either! 
But I know lots of offices who do an ultrasound at every appt even not high risk. So it just depends on the office.

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I get an ultrasound every 4 weeks since I am having twins. It is the easiest way to check that the size of both babies is still 20 percent within each other and check heart beats. 
I bet a lot of the moms are high risk and get frequent ultrasounds.

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most of the time they measure your belly to make sure your within the right measurements and determine how big the baby is

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Same! Everyone talking about percentile and what not and how much is their weight.... and I’m over here “I got nothing” 
I had an appt today at 27 weeks and I asked my obgyn why haven’t I gotten an ultra sound and she said it’s not necessary and only done when you’re high risk... made me mad. I think it’s BS.

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I got an ultrasound only at 12 weeks and 20 weeks with all 3 of my kids but they were able to guess the weight from about 36 weeks+ with my past 2 kids. They were measuring big and they would guess for example 6 lbs when I had about 4 weeks left. It's a guesstimate though.

How do they measure baby’s weight?

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