Anyone with hypermobility ??

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I'm currently 10weeks and 3 days pregnant.
Back pain and cramps for the last 3 days.
I called in sick today because my back just aches and I work with children so involved a lot of bending and lifting etc.
Any experience??

Ismarah - the first one was a crash section as I was haemorrhaging and baby's heart rate was dipping. 2nd one was by agreement given what happened first time (although I was going to try VBAC as I felt I should try/experience a natural birth! - good job I didn't as consultant said I would have ruptured had I tried once he saw the mess they'd made of my uterus the first time).

So to be fair nothing to do with the hypermobility or the SPD - unless you're more prone to placental abruption with hypermobility - which I don't think is the case!

Thanks Elf that's very interesting.

Hi Everyone, this thread has been a real eye-opener for me.

I suffer from hypermobility of some joints combined with flat feet. In my last pregnancy, owing to the joint softening along with my existing problems, my knees got battered and suffered a lot of permanent damage. At the time I was not wearing orthotics as my flat feet had never troubled me at all. During the delivery I had epidural, which worked well, but left me with a horrendous headache for 48 hours. After the delivery I suffered really painful hips for several months (and never ever considered it was owing to hypermobility + pregnancy). I always blamed it on the excess fat on my hips!!!

But I have to say I had a high-speed delivery. Water-breaking to baby-in-arms in 5 hours. Things moved really fast. This time around, am told it could be faster (only owing to my history, not hypermobility).

Its all making sense now. Thanks a lot for sharing your tips.

I have HMS, I dislocate a lot, especially my shoulder and hips.

I had ds3 18 months ago, for the last 5 months of the pregnancy I was in a wheel chair in hospital on very strong painkillers. I think the gap in my pelvis was three times the size it was meant to be by 20 weeks!

The birth was 16 minutes start to finish though the downside was I didn't know I was in labour (same happened with ds2) and gave birth mostly in the lift of the hospital!)

Wow! That's really quick! Did the pelvis get back to normal after? Did you have to do special exercises?

The pelvis went back to it's pre pregnancy state which is always bigger than it should be, the pain relief was pretty instant though after DS was born. I haven't done anything other than extreme pelvic floor muscles.

I was advised though when I have more children to go straight to a chiropractor to keep the pelvis aligned to stop it happening as bad again.

Fascinating stuff, def going to speak with MW and have asked dp to cancel a trip in my last month as suddenly realised he could've been four hours away and I might be prone to early or quick labour. Yeeks. Knees and hips seem to be getting worse so will check out Pilates link