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Big Baby Trial gives more options to pregnant women
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Big Baby Trial gives more options to pregnant women

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Last updated: May 7, 2025 8:10 am
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Published May 7, 2025
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Big Baby Trial gives more options to pregnant womenWhat is a shoulder diastosia?Additional holiday for children’s parents prematurely ‘giant’Hospital recruits five young children to studyBabies spared shoulder injury by pioneering deviceBig baby trial

Big Baby Trial gives more options to pregnant women

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Amy Cole
BBC Midlands Today
Shannon Headley
BBC News, West Midlands
BBC Eve Morgan, a gray vest and small pendant necklace smiling on the cameras. She is sitting in a garden area with grass and trees behind herBBC
Eve Morgan participated in the ‘Big Baby’ trial in 2018, gave birth to his son 10 days ago

Pregnant women with older children have been given the option to choose how and when to give birth to the child to reduce the risk of injury.

The purpose of the “Big Baby” test is to find out if it is less likely for infants who have appeared large in the womb by starting labor before 38 weeks, to be born with dystocia of shoulder, where the shoulders get stuck during delivery.

Researchers stated that the findings of the study between 2018 and 2022 reduced the risk by giving birth 10 days before a week.

It is expected that ÂŁ 2.5M cooventry-based test data will give doctors and rights more confident in facilitating natural births.

Covantry Nurse Eve Morgan attended the study 2018, when his child could reach 9LB (4KG) after surveillance.

Ms. Morgan, who developed a pregnancy diabetes when he was pregnant, made a cervical sweep to help bring her choice of natural labor.

As a result, he safely distributed his 7LBS 8oz Boy (3.4 kg) 10 days ago.

“He said () The child grows a lot in the last week,” he said. “I am quite beautiful myself. He said that he would have grown up for me.”

The trial was led by Cionbie Qanbi, who was in partnership with Bermingham, a professor of maternity at Warwick University and a university hospital, Consultant in the NHS Trust and the University Hospital Coventry and the University Hospital.

Results were collected from 2,893 women in 106 hospitals in the UK, who agreed to be allocated randomly for induction or standard distribution.

What is a shoulder diastosia?

Shoulder Dystosia 150 occurs in 1 in 1 in the vagina, delays birth and leads to potential complications, including a stretching in the neck of the infant’s neck.

NHS says that the situation occurs more often in older children, but how often there is uncertainty.

It is estimated that it can affect 1 of 25 women with a older child, who have vaginal delivery.

NHS stated that large infants are defined as those who weigh more than 90% of other infants.

Two women sat in a doctor's office. The doctor is wearing a pink shirt, black trousers and brown shoes and watching the patient. The patient is wearing brown hijab, brown top and blue jeans.
Professor Cibbon Queenby said that the trial liked women how and when they are older children

Prof. Queenby stated that the findings of the test empowered women to decide “how and when they want to distribute their child”.

Testing data showed that infants did not suffer much damage if they were later distributed. It was also shown that the first delivery reduced the requirement of emergency caesarean section and did not increase the risk of tearing.

“Whether you are inspired in 38 weeks or do you choose to wait for a natural labor, the child’s results in both groups were the same,” Prof. Cunbi said.

“Both groups had a risk of shoulder dystocia, it was really slightly more. If you were naturally waiting for labor – but infants did not do anything bad if you naturally wait for labor.”

He said that all infants were born in an NHS hospital, where employees were trained to give natural births.

Komal is sitting on the bed in a doctor's office, smiling on camera. She is wearing black glasses, a brown hijab, brown top and blue jeans.
Komal Mehmood, who is pregnant with a baby in a 38 -week womb, who appears big in the womb, said the test figures assured her

Komal Ghumud from Covantry is 38 weeks pregnant with his second child, which is measuring as big.

He said that he found the test results helpful while deciding his birth plan.

“I mean this is a natural process at the end of the day,” he said. “I consider the child to be big, but I am confident that waiting for a normal birth should not be a problem.”

Asked whether the data assured him that he said: “Surely it does.”

The test was funded by the results published in the National Institute for Health and Care Research and Medical Journal, Lancet.

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