Hypermobility Syndrome & Pregnancy/Birth

hi i am Hypermobile too, (dont know about the syndrome bit, was just diagnosed by my physio as hypermobile..) was never told anything about this, they were more worried about my back, pelvis etc with the weight of pregnancy (and they were right, DD is 10 months old and ive only just stopped physio for my pelvis and lower back, but it still niggles and probably always will according to my physio.) BUT i had a perfect labour, not an issue (other than back pain/sciatica from the hypermobility but nothing dangerous to the baby etc) and DD still came at 13 days overdue lol and my labour was 9 hours active labour, 24hours all up so pretty standard for a first time birth, slightly quicker than average but definitely not rapid by any means! so no issues with any of that for me. my main thing is the pain now, if i were you id probably get your MW to hook you up with a physio as soon as you have any niggles in your back.joints etc due to your condition so they can keep an eye on it..we are deciding to wait a couple of years before TTC #2 so i can get my back and pelvis back into shape to avoid being on crutches for the next pregnancy.. id assume if your obstetrician and midwife havent heard of it, then it must not be a very common issue, or its just good old online information playing with your head lol (totally been there!) good luck for a great pregnancy and birth ahead! x

Hmmm, just read up on hypermobility syndrome and from what I read I'm pretty sure I have it too as my knees bend quite significantly backwars sometimes if that makes sense ( unless there are other conditions that cause this). Have also had wrist trouble for a couple of years and got braces and physio which didn't help at all.

I guess we'll find out about the labour part reff...

Mollycat, your wrist trouble could be De Quervains disease, which is what I have. It usually only appears in pregnant women and new mothers. have a google and a read about it and see if that describes it. That's what I have in my wrists as well as ganglions. The cortisone injection didn't make it any better unfortunately and it's just all about managing it from here. I can feel it getting worse again recently too...

fingers crossed for you jen. Hope it's not too quick though as that isn't so good for people in gerneral either.

When is do your bellydancing classes finish? Let me know and we can have a tuesday aquafit meetup :)

Or stay at home reff

I'm prone to stretch marks too. Have got them from growthspurts during puberty and from a weightgain a few years back. No doubt I'll get heaps with this pregnancy...oh well, nothing i can do about it, so whyh moan :-)

oh ok, so when I porked out 8 years ago and put on 20kg in 6 months that should've already stretched my skin as if I was pregnant, lol...I guess we'll see afterwards...

They will have a huge range of braces at the handclinic Reff (the one on papanui road), I used to go there and they gave them to me for free (mind you it was covered by ACC, so they may have covered the cost of the wrist braces) still have heaps lying around at home and may start up on one of the elastic bandages soon.

I would've thought so too regarding the stretchy skin being good to prevent stretchmarks...ah well

nup i think stretchmarks are stretchmarks, most get them, a few lucky ones dont.. i had them BAD on my belly- (despite using bio oil every single day)to the point my OBGYN commented on how bad they were! (come on- she sees preggy bellys every single day for a living, so they MUST have been bad for her to feel the need to tell me how bad they were! lol) but now DD is 11 months old almost, and they have already faded right down and shrunk to just small ones, so am pretty impressed i thought it would have taken years! oh well, no bikinis for me, but thats no big loss lol.