I didn't realize I had HEDs, I thought the bendiness was just a cool parlor trick, I didn't start to have lots of complaints until I was much older, although looking back, it is the explanation for everything.

It can be dominant apparently, which I find very interesting as I dont see any advantage evolution wise, unless you want to raise your own Cirque du soleil troupe!

I had been under the impression that the reason my oldest was born 10 weeks early despite 16 weeks of bedrest was because of something else. So I wasn't brave. I just didn't have accurate info.

I also originally wanted to have my first at the Birthplace, which was a birthing center on Aurora by the zoo, staffed solely by midwives. But when I started having an " irritable uterus", they transferred me to one of their consulting OB/GYNs who was in Bellevue ( where we were living at the time) So I empathize with your desire to have a normal birth, with as little intervention as possible.

Im just relaying my own experience, so take from it what you will. My first was born 10 weeks early after 16 weeks of bedrest, not because I was going into labor but because she was in fetal distress. This was only diagnosed, because I had an odd feeling like her movements were diminished. So pay attention to " Odd feelings". When I called the dr, ( of course it was the weekend, and of course my dr wasn't on call, and of COURSE the dr who was on call said " don't worry about it, it's fine),