How much do newborn babies weigh?

[samoth]

Like, generic probabilites and ranges.

I need to make a karma bookie thread, and googling "baby weight" doesn't yield much in the first couple pages.

 

[Scotsman]

AVG used to be 7.5 lbs not sure if it still is.

Cheers,
Scotsman

 

[puddlemonkey]

You should be fairly safe with 6-13

 

[bw1]

80 lbs

 

[needtogetaas]

all my kids were over 9lbs

 

[samoth]

AVG used to be 7.5 lbs not sure if it still is.

Cheers,
Scotsman

That sounds about right from what I can remember.

So making entries of 5, 6, ..., 10, 11 pounds in integer increments would suffice? That's seven choices. Okay.

Now I need to find some site that gives some numbers of decent-sized survey.

 

[samoth]

You should be fairly safe with 6-13

Okay, 6-13 pounds.

Now what's the relative frequency of such births...

 

[Lestat]

this might help

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Birth_weight_chart.png

 

[Scotsman]

That sounds about right from what I can remember.

So making entries of 5, 6, ..., 10, 11 pounds in integer increments would suffice? That's seven choices. Okay.

Now I need to find some site that gives some numbers of decent-sized survey.

When I was born (1977) I was an exactly average baby for the time 7.5 lbs and 19 inches in length.

Try looking up birth size stats or maybe newborn everages or some such.

Cheers,
Scotsman

 

[samoth]

this might help

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Birth_weight_chart.png

Perfect! I was looking through http://www.dphhs.mt.gov/statisticalinformation/vitalstats/1999report/99birth.pdf.

Now I have something to go off of.