I'm 166cm and have size 5 and a half feet. Added to that, I'm a bit of a pinhead and I've yet to meet anyone with smaller hands than me. But I'm not short.

Anyhow, before I announced I was pregnant, someone in the office started saying how small feet means small pelvis and how if I ever got pregnant, maybe I would need a caesarean. How I laughed, thinking "yeah right, that's got to be an old wives tale for sure."

A bit of Googling later suggested that maybe this wasn't as daft as I first thought so I asked my obstetrician expecting him to knock it on the head. But he also said that although there's not a direct correlation, it's something that could indicate a small pelvis "and I'm guessing you're about a 5 and a half shoe size." I was mightily impressed that he was so accurate and he said that's something he does look out for.

Now, my obstetrician has the lowest rate of caesareans in Melbourne apparently and he is not going to send me off for pelvic scans or any of those unreliable things that medical people sometimes do. He is happy to take a let's see how you go once you're in labour approach which I'm very comfortable with. So I don't want this to turn into a debate about how to avoid being pressured into a caesarean on the basis of a 'maybe'. I won't be.

But, I would like to hear from other women who have small feet (compared to their height) and how their birth went.

Cheers

Fiona