Help with PGP

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I’ve developed terrible pelvic girdle pain. I’m currently 29 weeks and am terrified of 11 more weeks of this getting worse. I’m limping terribly and at the end of each day I can no longer walk, I’m literally crawling on hands and knees round the house. Has anyone got any physio through the midwife for this recently? Or is it even worth me mentioning it given lockdown and the pandemic?

You can ask for a referral but atm the trusts are a bit behind so you may have a long wait.

You can buy support belts. Try a pillow between your legs at night.
Best thing I found was to limit range of motion. Shorten your walking stride. Take steps 1 at a time. Getting in car, sit then swing both legs in/out together. Rest as much as you can.
I've had it in my last 3 pregnancies, 2 large singletons and a set of twins.
Already feeling it starting again but only in my gym sessions thankfully, 10+2wk.

A gym/birthing ball has helped me lots with this. Had really quite intense pelvic pain in both pregnancies and being able to just sit and bounce or do gentle exercises on the ball does relieve the pain. If you Google it there are lots of instructions for exercises you can do to help. My midwife this time just said ‘pendulum swing’ with your legs when getting up and down/ in and out of cars etc and paracetamol.

Two things:

Pelvic partnership website (google it). This is your new religious text; study it. Learn it. Live it.

Osteopath or chiropractor with experience of pregnancy. A list of recommended practitioners is on the pelvic partnership website but there are other amazing ones out there too. I promise any expense is well worth it.

You are unlikely to get an nhs physio referral through before the birth. Most nhs physios won't touch you and no amount of exercises will get your pelvis functioning properly.

Ok third thought: get some crutches. They don't have to be prescribed. Get them from eBay or something.

Hi, I am really suffering with this too. (27 weeks). There are two things that I have changed that have made enough difference that it is now bearable.

The first is sitting down to put on and take off shoes, socks, pants, bottoms! Any standing on one leg makes it a hundred times worse the next day.

The second is I usually sleep on my side with one knee pulled up higher than the other. I read this was a no-no and so now sleep with both knees together. The nights I wake up in my usual position I am always in more pain the next day.

Following this to see if there's more that can be done as it's not fun!