Spd weakens pelvic muscles => harder labour??

[laura2109]

Hey all,

I'm going on 33 weeks and has spd since about week 28, gradually got worse. Initially I just thought I'll manage the pain using home remedies etc.. But I'll take it to the next level and search for spd pain relief exercises on YouTube, if that fails I'll go to an osteopath who deals with this stuff.

Anyway, the pain is such that it makes me worried that it'll weaken my pelvic muscles and make labour more painful, longer and possibly need intervention?!! It's quite bad this morning, I think it's due to my shopping trip yesterday. Turning over in bed is a major project now lol, so it taking the stairs or even just a few steps. So ladies, does spd make labour harder??!!

Not for me personally, in my second and third pregnancies I had increasingly painful SPD. It wasn't crutches bad but it was hurt to walk/stand/sit/rollover bad, I had 1-1 physio in my 3rd which helped and also wore a tubi grip and belt. Many people will have had far worse SPD I'm sure so perhaps it differs, but SPD was not a factor in either of these labours.

I did have an epidural with my second but my third (worse spd) just gas and air.

I had SPD and my labour was 6.5 hours with vonteuse. I don't think there's necessarily a correlation. Good luck!

Not at all in my experience. Try to stay as mobile as possible and you'll be fine. It can stay with you for months after birth so work on strength training ASAP after delivery.
I've had spd with pregnancies, 2 singletons and a set of twins. All have been big babies which explained why my body was prepping that way. The singletons were both easy to deliver, 10lb12oz boy took 15 mins pushing and 9lb10oz girl just 3 pushes to get out so not bad at all. The twins were breach and transverse so had to have c-sec at 38 weeks, turning in bed with them was a real mission as I was huge lol (they we're 17lb combined at birth). I had diastasis recti, unstable hips and a bad back for years after them but fixed it all with powerlifting in the gym.

Not at all! I had severe pgp from 16 weeks, on crutches and barely able to walk. My ds arrived quickly (3cm to born in under two hours, first baby) naturally at 38 weeks! No correlation...I'm a midwife and have never seen this correlation either x