Dear LORD, just HOW much more can my crotch hurt?? FFS! [angry]

[Luxmum]

Sigh, I'm 18 weeks with DC no. 3, and my nether-regions are just ACHING. I'm hobbling round the office like a ancient crone here, and I'm NOT ancient.. I KNOW it is just my ligaments down there stretching, but after 2 huge babies, you'd think they can't stretch any more. It's like well, just effing aches. I just wanted to whine really, it's not like my childless colleagues or my caring but incomprehensive DH can understand.. so, you're my only venting outlet. Vent Vent Vent.

[Pinkjenny]

I'm 14+4 and I feel like someone is stabbing me in the crotch. I thought my dh was being sympathetic, until I saw a sent text message on his phone accidentally on purpose to his cousin, saying second time around he, "doesn't know what all the fuss is about".

[Luxmum]

SPD?? What's that? Great, I AM falling apart.. And yes, you're right Pinkjenny. For the first I was (well, relatively of course) spoilt. Now it's like 'can you mow the lawn tonight darling, I'm going for a drink with some friends. Oh, and cook dinner and put the kids to bed too, and then there is the laundry and the general pig-sty of our house to sort..' . Ok, so it's not THAT bad, but that^s what it FEELS like.. Vent vent.

[Pinkjenny]

I hear you. Dh was away on Monday night, got home at 8.30pm last night and away tonight. If he wasn't so tight I'd think he had another woman .

[crumpette]

I have weird stabbing pains in my nether regions, is that the same thing? It suddenly makes me go 'ouch' to mortified looks from colleagues and DH asking what I have been doing!!!

[milou2]

From me too, if it is SPD, do not under any circumstances do things which mean pushing trollies, carrying stuff, yes that is virtually impossible with a family. I know.

All my spd pain went while I spent a couple of days with my grandmother in a tiny flat, no house work, laundry, toddler care, or stairs. So I am living proof that the bl**dy hard work of being a mother at home can be crippling. The pain all came back when I got back home.

If you can collect together all essentials into one small room and basically live there it might help. I used to have to think a lot to plan what I would walk across the kitchen for, no spare footsteps at all. Seriously.

Even lifting up a cup of coffee caused a twinge of pain down in my pelvis, so weight bearing is bad.

Sex was a bad idea too btw, unless extremely careful. Delayed pain reaction to overuse of my body was another annoyance, so no immediate warning, but ache/pain some hours later.

Anyone who doesn't believe in SPD, may you hope you never get it.

I'm ok now