Hi im on my 4th pregnancy i suffer from pelvic and girdle pain or known as SPD that hormone that you get in late pregnancy come in about 12 weeks with me. Not only that but every ounce of weight baby is i feel tremendously. At night i get this grinding real pain full feeling on rolling i have to do a log roll to minamise it. I get same pains and lost of stinging during the day too makes movement very hard. because of the hormone that comes to early for me the uterus drops down. I find the less weight you gain in pregnancy the better but keeping within normal limits. So no great excessive weight gain. I have had to have my uterus lifted already. feel free to pm me if ya want.
Fiona Bjrose i also delivered my first on my back and i didnt want to the pain was awfull... I wanted to be on my side with my leg up but they made me roll back... Its very interesting we delivered on our back
Last edited by squidipa; June 25th, 2008 at 05:08 PM.
I actually gained nothing but baby weight. & DS was lighter than DD2.
It started at around 4 months & slowly got worse. I thought maybe he was sitting very low or was engeged coz thats what it felt like, but he was sideways - same as DD2 & didn't engage til labour.
I only had it with DS.
Yep, logically you would think that gaining a lot of pregnancy weight would have something to do with SPD but I don't actually think that's true. I only put on 6kg.
Bjrose, there's some info out there from one of the pelvic instability support groups that advises what to do when it comes to the birth. I just had a quick look and couldn't find it again but from memory it says to get someone to measure with a bit of string how far you can comfortably open your legs, then take that string with you and don't allow the midwives to get you to widen further than that. Also, it's important to try to avoid an epidural as although that will mean that you can get into the 'on back, legs separated' position without pain, you're likely to pay for it down the track.
i gained 40 kilo with my first and 30 with the second and 20 with 3rd and 13 with this one so far... i did wear a support belt too that helped to stabalise me more. Thanks for being honest enough to give me your opinions
The weight thing doesn't necc make SPD any worse, you are going to gain baby & baby-infrastructure weight but regardless of whether it's a lot or a little, if your ligaments are stretchy you will feel it.
I understand it gets progressively worse with each pregnancy HOWEVER balancing that is the awareness of how to manage it right from the very beginning.
In our case, it was the deciding factor in DH having a vasectomy. I just don't think I want to do all that pain again!
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