OH baby! New research has shown that shorter mums have smaller babies but Irish News readers are not giving weight to such notions.
Northern Ireland mothers are defying the new Scandinavian statistics.
Our story reported that shorter mothers have genes that increase their chances of giving birth to smaller or prematurely born babies.
A study of 3,485 women and infants from Finland, Denmark and Norway found that every centimetre of extra height increased the length, weight and gestational age of newborn babies by 0.05 centimetres, 10 grams and 0.34 days respectively.
However, Irish News readers who got in touch said their experiences mostly went against the findings.
Janice Taylor-Clarke, who is five feet two inches tall said: "My first child was 8lbs 7 ozs, second child was 10lbs 11.5 ozs and third child was 9 lbs 9 ozs."
Five-foot tall Marie Curran, whose husband is 6ft 3in, said: "My first son was son was 8lb 6.5oz and second son was 8lb 4.5oz - big babies."
And despite being a size 8, Sonya Ui Dhorchai said: "Absolutely not - my babies were 8lb 6oz and 8lb 3oz.
Reader Emma Louise McCrory also got in touch to tell us: "My first baby was 10lbs - I am 5ft 2 and a size 8-10 so definitely not true in my case."
And standing at 4ft 10, mum Marie Malins told us on our Facebook page how her first baby weighed in at 9lb 4oz.
Meanwhile, Mary Murdock,said her baby boy was 10lb 7oz, and she's only a petite 5ft1in.
However, Deborah Pedersen, who is 5ft 9in seemed to back the findings, said: "My kids were 5lbs and 3lbs - both premature."
