Do taller women have easier pregnancies?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Since the weight spreads out more? Or is that bullshit?

Who cares about pregnancy, wait until labor & delivery!!

Pregnancies are hit and miss, for if have annoying issues in whichever trimester.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the point of this thread?

To answer the OP who is curious. What is the point of your question?

She is obviously short.

Nope, 5'9". I don't care about weight, just curios about the third trimester and sleeping. MIL said that tall women don't have as many issues because "the baby has more room". Sounded like bullshit, just curious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the point of this thread?

To answer the OP who is curious. What is the point of your question?

She is obviously short.

Nope, 5'9". I don't care about weight, just curios about the third trimester and sleeping. MIL said that tall women don't have as many issues because "the baby has more room". Sounded like bullshit, just curious.

Depends on your proportions. I am 6 ft with freakishly long legs and a freakishly short torso. This fact did not give anyone a roomier ride in the final months of pregnancy.

[Anonymous]

5' and one easy pregnancy, one hard the second half. Easy births though. Thank you, child bearing hips!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think they're less likely to have issues with shortness of breath.

Or acid reflux

[Anonymous]

I'm 5 8 with a short torso but a deep one, if that makes sense. How much room does the baby have? Well, it depends on the father too. My pregnancies have been pretty easy despite a big father and big, wide babies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the point of this thread?

To answer the OP who is curious. What is the point of your question?

She is obviously short.

Nope, 5'9". I don't care about weight, just curios about the third trimester and sleeping. MIL said that tall women don't have as many issues because "the baby has more room". Sounded like bullshit, just curious.

Yes it's BS. I'm 5'9" and honestly I DREADED bedtime. It was the worst part of my day. First of all whichever side I lay on, the hip on that side would be in so much pain after an hour so I'd have to turn. But I'd have to wake up to turn to the other side. Can't use my abs to pull my body around so I'd literally have to wake up, sit up (using my arms to push myself up) and somehow haul myself around to the other hip. I also used a pillow between the thighs and knees and this gave me a lovely heat rash on my inner thighs. Not to mention the baby kicking up a storm at bedtime. Sometimes she'd jolt me awake in the middle of the night. So yeah, not easy either way.

[Anonymous]

Yeah its easier more room for the baby

[Anonymous]

At 5' 10'' I think I showed less and later - so there's that. (Though by, say, 8+ mos. pretty much everyone is huge...) But I had terrible back/hip/pelvis issues, particularly in the third trimester, with my first. I wonder if that is related, since I've had multiple doctors tell me and family members (we are all really tall), that back problems (non-pregnancy related) often go hand in hand (or are exacerbated) by height/ body mass.

[Anonymous]

I"m 5'4". Had an incredibly easy pregnancy except for the last 2 weeks when I was constipated and had reflux at night. I also carried the baby high and weird. When I went to the hospital in labor, the first nurse thought I meant I was miscarrying because I only looked about 5 months pregnant.

[Anonymous]

It's BS. It's not like being tall means that you have all this extra space in your torso just waiting to be filled with a baby--your organs get squished just like a short woman's. I slept for crap my last trimester and I'm 5'10". Maybe the torso length is cancelled out by back issues. I had a hyperextended lumbar curve and my back always hurt.

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I'm 5-11 and had a super long baby. Big suprise...he's tall like us. So even though he had more room because I am tall, he took it all up and then some. So I guess I think that you have the baby that fills up the space you have, if that makes any sense? I don't imagine a lot of 5-2 women are having super long babies.

[Anonymous]

5'4" and I had a great, easy pregnancy and a long but uneventful natural labor.

I slept like a baby during the third trimester. Something about my hips made it easy for me to carry the baby well and they never hurt. I also never had to get up to pee like most of my friends complained about -- my torso could accommodate a huge baby and a full bladder . I guess I'm "roomy" in there even though I'm shorter.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think they're less likely to have issues with shortness of breath.

Or acid reflux

Well I am the exception, I guess. I am 5'9 I had acid reflux from hell, so much so that even during deliver I needed several different meds for it. Always disappeared right after birth, though. I carried fairly high and never looked huge, possibly because of my longer torso. But I also only gained 24, 19, and 22 lbs during my pregnancies, so I didn't carry a ton of extra weight around either, which certainly helped my back.

[Anonymous]

I think women with a long torso have a easier time carrying the baby. I don't think height has anything to do with it. A short woman with a long torso could have an easier time than a tall women with a short torso