Avoiding SPD 2nd pregnancy - any tips

[QueenFee]

Had really bad SPD last time so a bit scared of how bad its going to get this time. Has anyone got any tips of avoiding /coping with it?

Get referred to a specialist physio asap - at your booking in appt, if possible. It hasn't cured it for me, but it has meant I've got to 36 weeks and can still walk (unlike last time!)

when I said to the dr just now I wanted to be referred to a physio and he just laughed at me and said we will wait and see how it goes but I insisted and he gave me their phone number. I will ask the midwife on fri though maybe they will be more helpfull.

What an arse for laughing! Don't ask the midiwfe - insist!
If she isn't sympathetic, ask to speak to someone else. It's not a laughing matter, and there is nothing to be gained from 'waiting to see' if SPD will kick in again. You need preventative advice asap.

I saw a physio from 16 weeks this time (took 4 weeks to get an appointment) and she has been great. OK, the SPD kicked in earlier this time and I've had some tough days, but it is nowhere near as bad as it was last time.

This website is also supposed to be a good source of advice and support for people suffering from SPD.

Sorry, don't know what happened there!

This website

Thanks for that have just spent ages trawling through the info there and it is quite helpfull. I have booked to see an osteopath so will see what she says as the NHS were sympathetic but useless last time.

I have now realised I am dreading telling people I am pregnant for fear I get the 'should you really be doing that when you had SPD before' reaction

Watching this with interest Queenfee. I had nasty SPD last time and still haven't shaken the after-effects almost 2 years later. I'm beginning to wonder if I've had an odd SI joint all along.

I got my BFP on Sunday and had a very walk-y day on Saturday. I was stiff as a board on Sunday morning so I'm terrified of SPD this time!

I have seen an osteo a couple of times and each time have felt so much better afterwards (this is post-preg). He said that there was no need to suffer again so badly and that they can reduce the symptoms, but they probably won't touch you in 1st 3 months. Not because it's dangerous, but if you do MC then so that there's no doubt that it could have been the osteo.

Hi hobnob. You must be due around the same time as me (8th July)!
I ended up in a wheelchair last time and don't want to do that again. Plus I have a funny feeling my family won't be quite so supportive this time around. I also never got rid of it completely. Strangely though I never had it with my 1st pregnancy....?
Hope you feel better - I am trying to be as lazy as possible with a 2 and 4 year old! I really don't want to start driving to school instead of walking but looks like I might have to

The Osteo did cranial work on DS making sleep like a sheer miracle so I have lots of faith in her!
Fingers crossed she will treat me. I am convinced hip carrying kids has caused some of my probs.
Sorry to be sooooo long!

I think that any sacrifices we make are well worth it for children, and I'd like to hope that others recognise that. Think of those poor souls with 9 months of hyperemesis who have more than one baby!

I also tried the NHS route last time (we have self-referral physio here) but I was given a velcro back support to wear under my bump and sent away with a few lame exercises and told not to come back unless I was crippled. It came close, but I just felt that they didn't have anything more to offer so didn't return. I bought a hip belt of the net which I felt was much better for me (another velcro strap, but it went around my hip bones and held them together - it was like a duracell battery and allowed me to keep going for longer), in conjuction with a massive tubigrip over my bump. Just reminding myself of all this fills me with dread... That belt didn't go well with trapped wind and summer baby doesn't really go well with massive tubigrip either!

Even today my hip has become more audibly clicky. As my tiny bump grows I can feel it pressing against the SP joint and giving me (small) shooting pains. Signs of things to come no doubt.

I think I'm due around July 14th. Last time it started at around 18 weeks but actually improved in the last few weeks of pregnancy. I think the sheer weight of my overdue bubba stabilised things. But the worst pain in labour was definitely the SP joint !

I didnt notice in labour - but I would rather go through labour again than expeience the pain I was in in the last few weeks. I was given a brilliant brace and crutches from the hosp but had to get the wheelchair myself . I found it really hot also as DS was a August baby. What does the tubigrip do in addition to the brace? Was yours the 3 part brace? I tried a few but that was the only one that felt like it was holding me together!

It was literally just a skinny (inch or so) piece of velcro like this. It did tend to cut off blood supply to legs and retain fluid a bit, but the benefits outweighed this.

I'm intrigued about a 3-part brace?!

The tubi was apparently for more support. I THINK the theory of it was that it supported the bump and kept some pressure off the pelvis (it was a folded over piece which stretched from hips to top of bump). It did help a wee bit, more so in the 2nd trimester. Very cosy.

I had terrible spd last time with dd2 (didn't have it with dd1) and it started in this pregnancy at about 8 weeks. I'm now 15 weeks and I saw an osteopath about 2 weeks ago. She manipulated my pelvis and lower back and afterwards I was thinking she hadn't done much. 2 weeks later and the pain is sooooooo much better. It feels like a miracle tbh! It still hurts to do things like pushing trolleys/buggys and its uncomfortable lifting dd2 but nothing as bad as it was. So I highly recommend it. Ok I'm only 15 weeks so it could get worse but I do think its made a difference.

I assume you know all the things to do to help yourself? Such as keeping your legs together as much as possible. Not sitting on the floor. Avoiding things that hurt. Not lifting heavy things. Etc etc.

I went to see the osteopath on yesterday. She was happy to work on me if I was happy to take the (in her words very small) risk. I have to say my hips feel so much etter to day sort of smoother and no twinges walking up and down stairs.
lets hope this continues

Good for you Queenfee. Enjoy it while it lasts! I think I'm going to be left to hobble for a couple months more after what I just spent on matty jeans (trying to be organised before the Christmas rush!)

Is the small risk just a theoretical one i.e. the thought of changing anything in your day-to-day routine may be a candidate for causing mc? Or is there actual evidence that it may? I'm sure that no-one actually knows the answer to that. Sorry, I'm rambling. I'm just thinking that I got slammed with fists and elbows in my belly from a small child running around a corner at work the other day and find it hard to imagine that that would have any effect on a

She seemed to think it was to cover them professionally (to avoid being sued basically) She was happy to treat. My fembrace had 3 staps but the new one looks like this fembrace
which looks just as good. I am just left with a cliky hip at the moment to heres to a trouble free pregnancy [optomistic icon!]