3rd Trimester

Big Hips=Easy pregnancy

I have always been very hippy as a teenager and even now. I have always received the comment "you will have an easy pregnancy with those hips". Now that I'm getting closer I'm wondering if this is true. Any big hip second mommies around here?

Re: Big Hips=Easy pregnancy

  • I'm VERY interested in answers to this. I'm assuming I'll be able to handle a bit of a bigger baby because my pelvis/hips/etc. are bigger than average. Not just that I am fatter than normal, but because my actual bone structure is large also. I hope you and I are right! LOL
  • I was told at my birth class that big hips have nothing to do with it, because teh bones that you want to have spread far apart are lower in your pubic area. I have big hips and was hoping for a break too :(
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  • I marched in Drill Team for 4 years and my thighs are very huge muscularly (is that a word), will that work?

    I'm trying to gain some points here.

  • Hmm....I am a "hippy" girl and I don't feel that way. My hips have hurt me ever since I hit 28 wks.
  • I sure hope so!

     My sister is really skinny but has big hips and was in labor with her first child for only 4 hrs, start to finish.  Im hoping i take after her!

    Audrey- December 2009
    Owen- April 2011
    Olivia- Due December 24th
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    I have always been very hippy as a teenager and even now. I have always received the comment "you will have an easy pregnancy with those hips". Now that I'm getting closer I'm wondering if this is true. Any big hip second mommies around here?

     Sorry, but it has nothing to do with the width of your hips. It's all about the size of your pelvic inlet, the hole in your pelvis through which the baby travels.  There are women who have very wide hips, but a narrow inlet who have problems birthing small-normal sized babies.  And there are teeny tiny petite women who can vaginally birth huge babies.  

    And an u/s can't tell you anything either.  The only way to find out for sure is to have someone do a specific u/s to look and measure your pelvis and its inlet... and you'd have to visit a specialist to do so.

    So really... there's no way for you to know until you actually give birth!!  Sorry!! 

  • Hehe, I always got the "you've got child-bearing hips" comment too. Too bad it doesn't work that way Stick out tongue
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  • Not true. I have no hips at all and have had an easy pregnancy.

    Do you mean labor? Still not true. The size of your pelvis has very little to do with the size of your hips. Look at a picture of a human pelvis... it doesn't matter how wide your hip bones are, what matters is the size and shape of the pelvic opening itself. Scroll down to the bottom of this page:

    https://www.brooksidepress.org/Products/Military_OBGYN/Textbook/LaborandDelivery/labor.htm 

  • I have wider hips and pushing was a breeze for me with dd! I only pushed 2-4 contractions and she was out :)
  • Hmm, interesting thought, though I can't say I think there's a whole lot to it, as you'll find women with smaller frames who have easy pregnancies, and women with larger frames who have it rough.

    For myself, I have very average hips, and super easy pregnancies and an easy delivery with dd. Good luck!

  • Strangely enough - I always thought this would be the case for me - I am not a "large" girl per se, but I am definitely "bottom heavy" and don't have tiny hips by any means.  It turns out that the size of your hips has way less to do with it than the size of the opening in your pelvis.  Our baby was 2 weeks late, weight only 7 and a half pounds, and wouldn't fit through my pelvis - ending in a C-Section. 
  • I have the widest hips of anyone I've ever met.  Scary wide.

    I had an easy pregnancy until 8 months, it was all downhill from there.  My delivery was an absolute nightmare that I wouldn't wish on anyone.  My baby was 2 weeks early, weighed 9 lbs, and was face up, and I pushed for 3.5 hours after my epidural wore off.  I screamed so much for 3 hours straight that I'm sure I horrified people in nearby neighborhoods.

    So to answer your question, no.  lol

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