I was in a similar situation to you, with my twins born before my eldest was 3.5 years (and another child inbetween). My SPD had me in a wheelchair with the twins and whilst I felt heaps better as soon as they were born, I was still in a lot of pain for a while and still suffer now to a certain extent. My advice to you would be
1) don't do anything about it yet. Your baby is really little now and your hormone levels are high. There is plenty of time for recovery
2) see your physio. All the time and do what they tell you. You will be able to exercise soon, but now is too early
3) swimming. Once you are ready this is a great exercise
4) Keep wearing your pelvis support, so if you have a girdle or stretchy bandage then keep wearing it now.
Thanks ladies. You are all right. I really should focus more on how proud I am of what my body has achieved and give it time to heal more before putting more stress on it. And I really AM proud of what it's done. Us woman are amazing. It would just be nice if all births came with a magical tummy tuck afterwards, hehe.
I'm going to stick with just the pelvic floor exercises suggested by the physio, and perhaps just a few gentle tummy clenches like 'surprised' mentioned. When I go see my Ob in a few weeks I'll get his advice then about taking the kids for walks. It would be nice to be able to even just walk them around to one of the local parks. Although I'll admit I'm nervous how I will handle three at a park now lol!
Pelvic floor is all thats important at present. Plenty of time to exercise!! (wish I had your drive I am so over weight and DS2 is 2 i actually probably weight more now than the day he was born!)
Let me know if you want some company 1 day as can come for a visit! DS1 has speech on thurs so over your way allready so could come over if it suits you for kids to play.
Hun don't be too hard on yourself!! Remember you have just had THREE babies in under 3 yrs!!!!
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