To prepare for childbirth the pelvic joints undergo changes during pregnancy and delivery due to hormonal influences and mechanical stress. There are very few reports concerning stress fractures of the sacrum and/or pubic bone diagnosed after delivery. We wish to call attention to a very rare case of a right inferior pubic ramus fracture during delivery.A 30-year-old Caucasian, non-smoking woman with a six-year history of anorexia nervosa and normal lumbal vertebral and femoral neck bone mineral density (T score: -1) was pregnant after IVF for anovulatory infertility. Her pre-pregnancy BMI was 18 and pregnancy weight gain 14 kg.
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