Pregnancy and Hypermobility: The Must-Know hEDS/HSD Pregnancy Guidelines with Dr. Sally Pezaro

About this episode

This episode discusses essential pregnancy guidelines for individuals with hEDS or HSD, featuring insights from midwife Dr. Sally Pezaro.

Pregnant with hEDS or HSD (or thinking about it for future)? In this episode, I’m joined by midwife and professor Dr. Sally Pezaro to talk through what hypermobile people REALLY need to know about pregnancy and birth. We break down👇 Sally’s 3 key recommendations for anyone pregnant with hEDS/HSD how to share the guidelines with your doctor or midwife to improve your care and advocate for yourself why collaborative, person-centred maternity care matters so much for hypermobile people everything you’ve wanted to know about C-sections, vaginal birth, IVF, epidurals, tears, and more (and what we can say from research so far about how these affect people with hEDS/HSD) This is a practical, compassionate conversation for patients, clinicians, and birth partners alike. THANK YOU for watching, and remember: incurable does not mean untreatable! ❣️ 📚 Join the waitlist for pre-order information for the April 2026 release of Help! I'm Hypermobile (and get your free PDF companion guide in the meantime): ⁠⁠hypermobilityhq.com/book⁠⁠ 📸 Follow me ⁠⁠@hypermobilityhq⁠⁠ and subscribe on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Tiktok⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠Youtube⁠ ⁠ ⭐️ Follow Sally on Tiktok at ⁠@SallyPezaro⁠ and Instagram at…

People in this episode

Host: Alexandra Orfanides

Guest: Dr. Sally Pezaro

Topics covered

• pregnancy
• hypermobility
• hEDS
• HSD
• maternity care
• birth options

Keywords

• hEDS
• HSD
• pregnancy guidelines
• maternity care
• birth options
• C-sections
• vaginal birth
• IVF
• epidurals

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Help! I'm Hypermobile, hypermobilityhq.com

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