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Tag: hEDS
Pregnancy, childbirth, life with a baby and Ehlers-Danlos
May is Ehlers-Danlos-Syndrom (EDS) Awareness Month, a month to shine the spotlight on a frequently under-diagnosed multi-systemic condition of the connective tissue. May also happens to be around the time when we found out that I was expecting. EDS is a rare condition and sharing personal stories matters, so rather than just sharing a bit about my…
My hEDS birth plan
As part of my “hEDS x pregnancy” series of blog posts, I thought it might be helpful to share my birth plan or birth preferences. Lots of people warned us that nobody would even glance at it, but our experience was so very different. As I laboured through three different shifts, every single midwife and…
My hospital bag (the chronic illness edition)
As preterm labour is a risk for hEDS pregnancies, my hospital bag was packed from the first time I experience Braxton-Hicks (I didn’t know that’s what they were then), which was exactly 6 weeks before Baby Lemons was born. There are a dime-a-dozen “My hospital bag” posts in the blogosphere, so don’t let me repeat…
Growning Up and Liking It 