Hyper mobility during pregnancy

Yeah! The heartbeat was the first thing I noticed, before I got a positive test! That was my first sign something was different in my body and it was a bit spooky to literally be able to see my heartbeat up and down through my chest.

Now I'm 5 months postpartum and I have that as a really fond intimate private memory. My body was making all this extra blood to make a home for my little daughter.

As for hyper mobility (me too), I say lean in to your super power here. Few things are more valuable (besides mindset) in a vaginal birth than flexibility. Do you do yoga? I did deep stretch yoga particularly for hip mobility most days all through my pregnancy, so I was able to do yoga during labour which my midwife loved and helped a lot to get my daughter out as cleanly and smoothly as possible.

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As for panic attacks, the hormones have a lot to answer for. I had a few emotional meltdowns early doors. 🤗

I wasn’t diagnosed until after both pregnancies but so much makes sense now lol by 20 weeks I’m convinced my hips weren’t even attached anymore. I had terrible pubic disfunction and even just putting shoes on was awful. I had so many weird heart rate things that got worse (likely pots but not diagnosed luckily after my last pregnancy I haven’t had any issues). Things that saved me was meditation to calm myself and a yoga ball for pain. It is never too early!