Hi Guys

I had pelvic instability during my first pregnancy. And despite numerous people telling me to see a physio, I just put the aches and pains down to 'normal pregnancy pain'. In fact it was not. During my labour the pain was excruciating. And now, 16 months after birth i am still experiencing quite severe pelvic instability and have been seeing phsyios ever since.

My advice is see someone straight away! And not just any physio, make sure it is someone who specialises in pelvises. I wasted months with a physio who didn't do much to help me at all but have recently found one who is fantastic. I then had to have cortisone injections to try and stop the pain - which were horrifically painful and did nothing to ease the pain!

I have been told that the pain will probably be the same, if not worse during my second pregnancy so it is so important to keep the exercises going after birth to strengthen all the muscles around the joints. I don't know all the names of the muscles, but you need to exercise your pelvic floor, gluts, deep abdominals and there are two little muscles around your sacral joints that need strengthening too.

It may be interesting to note, that my pelvic instability was especially bad after the birth, until I stopped breast feeding when my son was 9 months old. The pain reduced significantly at this time, though it still gets pretty bad around my AF each month.

Hope you feel better soon!
Sasharry