surely not true?..........

[madremia09]

my mother....you know what mothers can be like..........told me off for reaching up to the top shelf in the cupboard the other day because apparently you shouldnt stretch upwards when pregnant as this can cause the umbillical cord to wrap itself around the babys neck..........old wives tale? never heard it before but sounds ridiculous!

absolutely not true

hmm i am not sure about the umbilical thing, but i know you shouldn't stretch up for stuff. am sure i have read that, and in my last job I was banned from doing it while pregnant

Ok, I'm really short and have to stretch quite regularly at work. DD was born with the cord around her neck twice!!! and now I'm quite spooked. Someone tell me to get a grip

not scientific but here

you shoudl be careful not to stretch because it is easy to over reach and hurt yourself when PG beause your ligaments etc are loosened

nothing to do with the umbilicial cord

and again here

guess my employers were just nbeing overcautious! lol

Not sure why but my mother also told me not to reach up when pregnant. I'm guessing she was told not to. She couldn't tell me why I shouldn't though...

just read second link,feeling better now thanks thisisyesterday

Yeah, my mum's always saying that too. I point out that a) there is nothing internal linking your arm and your uterus and b) I'm always being told to stretch in ante-natal yoga, but she still hates it when I do it...

that wives tale was started to prevent women from overdoing the stretching i read on myth site.