Dealing with / recovering from SPD

[MoltenLasagne]

I'm getting towards the end of my second pregnancy and yet again have ended up with SPD. Does anyone have any advice / resources that have helped them tackle it?

At the moment just keeping up with my toddler is becoming a struggle but in my last pregnancy I could walk down the road so at least that's an improvement!

I found an osteopath best for recovery.

SPD blighted both my pregancies, and I continued to have it for months post-natally after DS2. My functional fitness was still massively impacted by pain 3 months later.

First time I didn't know what it was and went to the GP after my final supermarket trip at 34 weeks because the pain was too much to repeat it again and I had to rest before staggering back to my car in a parent space. The GP brushed it off as "pregnancy aches and pains" and I ended up being unable to leave the house independently in the final month.

Second time, I'd heard of it by then and was able to manage it better by getting hold of crutches, avoiding wide leg positions, using support aids and sitting in a more supportive chair. I did struggle late on as I couldn't use a pushchair or reins for 2yo DS and had to rely on his good will to do anything... the ASD diagnosis was 7 years later...
The NHS physio referal system was so slow as to be pointless. By the time I'd done the hoop jumping from referral to getting an individual appointment for a support, I only got two weeks of antenatal use out of it! I only managed to attend the appointment because I'd already got hold of crutches- I'd never have made it from the car park to the clinic without them.

Physio - the NHS ones were good ime if you could get onto their list, but these days it might be a case of going private. I saw an osteopath and it didn’t help much, but maybe I should have tried again with someone else. Sadly it’s a contraindication to pregnancy massage, but once you’re in the recovery phase that might possibly help - although I can’t say for certain and you’d be looking for a therapist qualified to level 4 though at least. (Many therapists - myself included - are qualified to level 3, so do ask).

I had physio after giving birth too which did help.

Lots of info here too: pelvicpartnership.org.uk