I had it continue for the six months bw DS1 being born and DS2 being conceived and it stayed during pregnancy. I'd suggest that to get rid of it completely, see an acupuncturist.
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I had it continue for the six months bw DS1 being born and DS2 being conceived and it stayed during pregnancy. I'd suggest that to get rid of it completely, see an acupuncturist.
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I still have issues some days now when I don't "carry" myself properly, and now I have a car with a higher seating position I have caught myself getting in the car by stepping in with one leg and it causes pain right in that middle pelvic joint. I need to make careful movements and keep my pelvis even. If I don't then it's ouch!
Post birth I did find it quite a bit easier but then I had a relapse (that's what I call it) when the ligaments stiffened up and became inflexible. This was where I found pilates and physio invaluable for my pain management, strength and sanity.
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Hi Ladies,
Just popping in to see if I can borrow some of your wisdom on this horrible matter! And I'm reading some real horror stories in here...don't know how you ladies got through it!
I've had lower back issues my whole life but was surprisingly ok with my first pregnancy, but now at 15 weeks of pregnancy #2 and I've been getting pain in both of my lower back/pelvis and butt cheeks. It's on and off, some days severe and I struggle to walk and pick up my 12 month old and then others it can be almost none existent (now that I'm noticing what I'm doing and not overdoing things!). I'm hardly showing at the moment so I'm hardly carrying any weight which makes me a little concerned to how it might get as I start to pile it on (and pile it on I did with #1!!!!!). In everyone else's experience - did it gradually get worse or is it something that can come and go?
Since my DD has only just started walking I still have to pick her up a lot so there isn't a lot I can do about that, however I was considering getting a support belt to help stabilise...do these work in this way?
Any advice would be great!
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I could barely walk at the end of my second pregnancy, so I would say - get on top of it now, and get some excellent treatment before it gets really bad.
My third pregnancy wasn't too bad - I was having regular physio treatment through out.
My fourth pregnancy was by far the best pain wise - I was having weekly chiro treatments and that REALLY helped.
My "baby" is now nearly 17 months old and I still have pain - I don't have treatments though, even though I should.
The support belt never worked for me because it dug into my c-section scar and really hurt.
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Get on top of it. Despite doing everything I could in my second pregnancy, I still have problems and my physio has basically told me my body will fall apart unless we can find something that helps. I may need surgery to pin me back together. I do have underlying issues that exacerbate things though (hyper mobility).
The support belt works for some, not for others. Get it. I didn't wear it properly in my first pregnancy but did in my second and that helped a lot.
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It will only get worse. Implement a number of things listed in this thread now. I recommend getting the SRC pregnancy shorts. I still wear the recovery shorts a couple of times a week. A support belt was next to useless for me. Physio, osteo, chiro, hydrotherapy, whatever you need to use your abs and thigh muscles to overcome the weakening in the pubic bones.
Keep your knees together at all times - sit to put on undies, pants etc. Reduce lifting as much as you can or anything that has you using one hip more than the other, like vacuuming or pushing shopping trolleys. If your other half can't pick up these tasks, look at getting a cleaner, grocery shopping online, outsourcing whatever you can.
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Andi, the way the physio described it to me was that during certain weeks of the pregnancy, the hormones that cause the pelvic stretchiness are at a much higher level. So you have to be really careful to do all the right things as early on as you can, to try to prevent it worsening as much as possible. If you push through it then you can end up in a much, much worse state at the end of the pregnancy when you're carrying so much extra weight. So no, it doesn't come and go, as such, but the pain can definitely be worse on those days/after those days when you're putting strain on the pelvis.
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