PGP help

[mamablondie]

I’m currently 19 weeks pregnant with baby 2 and the PGP has ramped up with a vengeance. I suffered with this late in my first pregnancy but this time seems worse and has begun much earlier.

With the covid situation I’m reluctant to ask to go to hospital to physio etc so just wondered are there any products people could recommend to help?

Hi. I've got this and the physio in my area has shut down and unable to help. So I bought a maternity band from Argos which straps around the back and slightly under the bump and it's helping! 💐

Hello,
My LG is 5 months old and I suffered severely with PGP from 19 weeks so I understand.
I found having a warm bath each evening really helped...and I’m not a bath person!
I also bought a dreamgenii pillow which helped me at night.
Other than that it was constantly moving position and obviously limiting walking which helped...so tough as I loved walking. I honestly feel for you and hope you get some relief.

Ive had PGP in both my pregnancies and had physio both times. Implementing the advice early the second time round has helped reduce it though, and it’s only now st 40 weeks I’m really beginning to struggle. Here’s what I’ve been doing/can remember

-sleep on your side with a pillow in between your legs, it needs to reach from your knees to heels so a pregnancy pillow is good.

• sitting on a sofa/chair with a pillow behind you and a rolled up towel at the curve of your spine. Don’t sit curled up.

-If you have to sit on the floor to play with a toddler then sit in your knees with a pillow between your bum and heels.

• Rolling over in bed/getting in and out of car keep your knees together (put a plastic bag under your bum for getting in and out of the car so you can slide on it).

• Get a birthing ball to sit on and do some exercises like pelvic tilts. Also google PGP exercise and there’s loads you can start. It’s important not to let the muscles get too stiff, you need to be using them, so light exercise and short walks can help. Just take regular breaks and stop when it becomes too much.

• When you get aches you can use a hot water bottle/heat pack, just not on your bump, on your hips and back only.

• Don’t bend over to load washing machine/dishwasher etc, sit on a chair to do it.

And as pps said, warm baths and support belts help. If you try to implement as much as possible then you can prevent it getting much worse. Mines only really bad now when I get up of a morning and when I’ve sat in one position for too long, but I think it’s mostly due to babies head being so low now