Is there a "child bearing (right word?) weight"?

[Anonymous]

The hips of a woman determine if she has "child bearing hips" or not, but we all know her hips are dependent on her weight.

Is there a certain "child bearing weight"?

Like a specific number...? or look

[LauraMarx]

well I think there's definitely probably a precise scientific level of fat & muscle that is optimal for nurturing children in the womb & for delivering them, probably. I think it'd be different depending on each person, though. Depending on their body type, 'natural weight', height, hormones, even the way their womb is. I don't think such things *really* have much of an effect on the health of the child, though. I mean I think that's just one of those old wives tales (old bachelors tales?)

[Asker]

Lets say everything is kept constant for every girl. Would there be a specific weight?

[LauraMarx]

well, no, because everything isn't kept constant for every girl? what kind of a question is that?

[Asker]

Hypothetical, stop thinking so literally

[LauraMarx]

yeah but. Like, it's just not possible. If I'm gonna make it a constant across all girls I have to talk about one single girl and center her to the exclusion of all other girls, utterly arbitrarily, and it will be a weight only valid to her and it'll be nonsense. The point of my answer that it's gonna be varying from girl to girl drastically. You can't say 'yeah but what if it didn't' c'mon. Talking nonsense to me

[Jasmiini18]

"Child bearing hips" are just wide hips. Wider hips allow for more room for the baby and can make for an easier birth. Weight doesn't really have anything to do with it. I know women who have child bearing hips, and their weights vary. There is one who weighs 110 pounds, and there are some who weigh 160 pounds. Size /shape does not= weight. (Though I think that thicker hips may be a better support.)

[Asker]

Weight def. affects size and shape. Gravity

[Jasmiini18]

Well I'm going by the people I know. My sister in law is about 5'7, has a wider build, and a good curvy shape. She gets that from her mom. However, she is also really thin like her dad. She's only about 110-112. She's healthy. It's just her natural body to be thin. She has little bones, but a wide frame. Bone structure(size/shape) does not ="a certain weight." I'm not saying that weight does not = a certain size/shape. That's what I was trying to say. Does that make more sense?

[Asker]

What I'm saying is, do you have to blow up to a certain weight to have "child bearing hips"

[Jasmiini18]

That's what I was trying to explain. Child bearing hips just refers to wide hips because it's easier to carry a baby with wider hips."Child bearing" and "easy bearing" are synonyms, in my opinion. "Child bearing hips" is just a reference used to say that a woman has a good structure to carry a baby because she has wide hips. Because she has wide hips, it gives the baby room to grow and be born. It doesn't really have anything to do with weight. My sis in law has "CBH"& she's skinny.

[TedStar]

There is. If women are under age or overweight they will have a harder time falling pregnant because of the endocrine imbalances associated with those states. More importantly body fat percentage plays a bigger role. Women with "low" fat% (< 18) usually have irregular cycles if they have them at all. It is a defensive mechanism to try and discourage preganancy as the body can't provided the energy store for both mom and baby.

[pickledxtofu]

Body fat percentage isn't the same as weight. I think he's asking about there being a universal weight, in terms of numbers. As in a woman has to weigh 120 lbs(for example) in order to get pregnant and give birth

[Asker]

Body fat is influenced by weight though

[TedStar]

*under weight

Thanks Pickledxtofu. There is no set weight for all women. Too many variables for that

[sammy_31]

The weight I have not heard of but 'child bearing hips' I have I guess as long as you are not too heavy 'obese' or too light and practically bones. If there is I have no idea what it might be.

[Anonymous]

I don't think so...