Merseyside's biggest babies - how big are Scouse…

Merseyside's biggest babies - how big are Scouse babies on average and how does yours measure up?

The weight of a newborn is one of the first questions people ask, and often, the chunkier, the better.

Between 2017 and 2018, more than 2,000 “finished delivery episodes” recorded in Merseyside weighed at least four kilograms, or more, at birth - the equivalent to 8.8 pounds.

A finished delivery episode is where at least one baby is born - so twins or triplets may be excluded from the new NHS Digital figures.

From the 17,725 finished delivery episodes, the average weight for a baby girl is 7.3lbs (3.3kg) and 7.4lbs (3.4kg) for a boy.

Last year, we looked at some of Meet the BIGGEST babies born across Merseyside in 2018 , and some coming in at an eye-watering 12llb.

Which hospital has the most babies over 8.8lbs? (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Of all the maternity units in across the area, Wirral University Teach Hospital NHS Foundation Trust had the highest rate of babies born weighing 8.8 pounds or more - one in every seven. This is higher than the national average of one in 10.

The rate was one in every eight in Southport and Ormskirk NHS Trust and one in every nine in both Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust
and St Helens and Knowsley Hospital Services NHS Trust.

Meet the BIGGEST babies born across Merseyside in 2018

Across all hospitals in England there were 626,203 finished delivery episodes in 2017/18. Some 59,678 babies were born weighing 8.8 pounds or more - a rate of one in every 10.

Below is the data for each hospital;

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust