Has anyone with HMS or EDS been told to have a c section and recommended not to go to 40 weeks?

[SchrodingersMew]

Basically as it says in the title.

I'm not coping with the pain and have been forwarded to the psychiatric team as they think I am going to end up with PND.

They also told me that they do not recommend I birth naturally and not to go to 40 weeks.

Does anyone else have any experience with this?

TIA.

i have HMS (not EDS) but am only 17ish weeks so not having any pain. mild sacrum discomfort and that's about it. i have had a lot of physio in prep for pregnancy... used to have a lot of pain.

no-one has said a word to me about not going to 40 weeks, and c-section has been offered (not purely because of HMS, other issues are present), but not pushed in the slightest.

certain subtypes of EDS make a VB risky... do you know what type you are?

you must be feeling quite shit, i hope you are ok.

oh my, just seen that this was from ages ago! BeachBlue if you're around we can chat if you like... fwiw i started this thread a while ago and got some replies:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/childbirth/1388264-Hypermobile-Given-birth-Please-tell-me-about-your-experience

Hi Beachblue - yup check out Oikopolis's thread. I have HMS and posted about my experiences of giving birth (horrifying and multiple birth injuries). Had I seen the uro-gynae repairing me before giving birth, he would have advised ELCS. As to not going to 40 weeks or not, I don't know. If I have another child after he's finished doing the repairs, he says he would do an early ELCS certainly by 38 weeks.

(Waves to oikopolis!)

:)