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!