What makes a baby have a birth weight of 7lbs vs 10lbs?

What makes a baby have a birth weight of 7lbs vs 10lbs?
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Well, you probably already know that of babies born to the same woman, later ones tend to be bigger than earlier ones. I assume from your post that you’re considering ‘high’ to mean more than 10 lbs? So if a woman had a first baby close to that weight, later ones would likely be higher than that…
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