Postnatal PGP / SPD woes - anyone else?

[LightminTheQueem]

DD2 is 6 months. I had such high hopes for this period, vowed to start exercising at 2 months, maybe running. As it is I'm in pain every day, walking hurts, and just about the only exercise I can manage is swimming, but we have to all go as the baby won't have a bottle so it just never happens. It gets me down, I feel fat and low and like it's never going to improve. All through the pregnancy I promised DD1 if be able to run along with her again. Nope. It's just rubbish. Anyone else?

Hi, sorry you are suffering with PGP. My son is now 16 months and I am still not fully recovered BUT I am much better than I was.

Like you, I thought I would spend my maternity leave out with my jogging buggy, instead I was struggling to get to the local shop and couldn't even bath my baby without help.

At about 13 months I thought I was over it and decided to start running again, building up very gradually. It was a big mistake, I was fine at first but then it came back all of a sudden. It's been a big setback and it's hard to stay positive.

Are you getting any treatment? I'm happy to tell you more about things that have helped me if that helps.

I would recommend looking at the pelvic partnership website and the PINS website if you haven't already.

Thanks for starting this thread, I hope that you and some others reply as it would be great to hear from other people going through the same thing - most people I know in RL have given up asking how I am now .

Stay positive and enjoy your LOs as much as you can!

Bit late to the party, but did a search and this came up. Still having problems 9.5 years after my twins were born. Pilates keeps it at bay, but I have to do it every week or it stops working.

Lightmin, if swimming is aggravating your condition (even just a tiny bit)- you have to stop it. Sorry to be so so blunt, but any fluid build up or inflammation can really take an age to calm down if keeping active means that it hurts in the long run. There is another thread running at the moment with my in a nutshell history on it (Won't bore you here..) but I had to take things extremely slowly and learn to accept I wasn't going to be able to run again...for a long time. My DS is almost 4, and whilst I cannot yet run, I am much much more stable than I was. BUT, I had to see a physio for over a year...then specialist private body work called rolfing, and then some pilates, now some yoga...but it's been a long journey. If anything, I have learned how not pushing myself actually helps my recovery.
I second the PINS too, and any online assistance you can get. Unfortunately not all woman bounce back after birth and it can take a while, but there is light at the end of the tunnel. Please, go easy on yourself. Bending down and being on my knees, stairs and weight lifting (anything greater than my dinner plate!) were huge no no's for me for a long time, but avoiding them as much as possible assisted me in the long run.
Sorry it's long. I am sending love and hugs xxx go easy xx