Hi, all.
Sorry everyone's feeling crap at the moment. Physical discomfort really does wear you down. I'm feeling very stiff, and am walking like a sailor on land. fusam, that lower-back/arse pain sounds like what I had and was referred to physio for, so please do ask your GP or midwife if there's anything they can do soon. The ball-sitting the physio prescribed is helping me so far, as are the exercises of standing straight and pulling in my stomach muscles (effectively lifting my tummy with my core muscles). There are some other things as well, but they are harder to describe, and I don't want you to do yourself a mischief, especially if they turn out not to be suitable for you. After all, my first appointment included a lot of questions to exclude various possibilities like trapped nerves, spinal disc misalignment/disc fusing, etc. She had me lie down on a foam shape with tummy cut out, to poke between each rib, to make sure nothing was broken or out of place, before concluding that I just had crap core muscles.
DH and I managed to go out last night, and I saw another woman there - December birth, too - HAVING WINE! I was jealous, especially as no-one said a bloody thing, or even pursed their lips! Wine is one of my great pleasures, and it just doesn't seem fair... I commented to DH on the way home that he had been very restrained in not saying anything, and he didn't seem to have particularly noticed.
Mind you, this just raises the stakes for my first post-baby glass of wine. It had better be a bloody good one! I'm not wasting it on Christmas champagne, either...
Shall we have some post-baby fantasies? Wine, bending over, untrammelled digestion... 