Wait until you see this: The case of the dancing pregnant belly
She is only the fifth pregnant woman on record to experience the movement disorder, characterised by involuntary oscillations of the abdominal wall.
As if going through labour was not enough, a young woman had to endure hours of belly dancer’s dyskinesia while heavily pregnant, in a case reported by doctors in Ethiopia.
The rarely encountered movement disorder is characterised by waving or oscillating movement of the abdomen caused by rhythmic, or semi-rhythmic, involuntary contractions of the diaphragm, they say.
“It resembles a belly dance, hence the name ‘belly dancer’s dyskinesia [BDD]’,” the doctors wrote.
In their case, the patient was an otherwise healthy 19-year-old, who presented at 38 weeks’ gestation with an eight-hour history of rapid, semi-rhythmic involuntary movements of her abdominal wall with no precipitating factors identified.
