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I am suffering SPD (for the second time) and just need to vent without driving everyone else on my pregnancy thread mental. Not that they aren't supportive but I still have 20 weeks to go and I don't want to ruin their pregnancies by talking about mine!

Please come and join me so I don't feel so alone, and feel free to share tips if you have any....

mrsM sounds like a lovely day, weve been in the garden too this afternoon, football with the kids running around in pants!!

chinese for dinner, the family have been doing a fantastic job at keeping me busy and distracted today, planned BBQ tomorrow, just wanting the days to go by, pains been pretty bad today, but the distractions have helped

mrsS lol i live in a seaside village, so seagulls are usually the problem, sometimes they wander a few steps in the rooms but never go rumaging around, they usually stay around the rubbish. shame the seagulls are protected is all i think some mornings at 5am!!!!

yeah, exactly that, not better, less down today. still crabby and snappy with everyone this morning, but a bit better for knowing that ive got a busy day tomorrow, even if its only a BBQ in the garden, at least i can wheel myself around the tiled bits.

morning everyone. Was ok when I woke up and then went upstairs to do my teeth after breakfast and spent too long looking in the mirror flossing(can't do it without a mirror and pg women are supposed to floss) and bending forward and then awwwwwwwwwww. Had real trouble getting down stairs and making it to the sofa. No more flossing for me, at least not using our stupid low down upstairs mirror. Now I'm ok sitting on the gymball and lying on the sofa but seem to have completly lost my steering when I walk.
Crocs don't fit me either but I realised I could take the back strap off my Tevas and get them on easily, I walk so slowly that I don't need the strap on and whilst being the 2nd ugliest shoes on the planet they have got great arch support. I've had part of my legs out as I'm in short leggings but I think part of the problem is that I shaved my legs in the bath on friday night.Should've sat on a chair and done it carefully before I got in.

Birds are not my favourite things at this time of year either.We can't sleep with the windows closed for much longer but the blackbirds wake up and start singing at about 4.30.

looloo yeah, im finding even leaning over a sink to clean my teeth a problem, the angles just arent favourable!
your lucky with your legs, i havent been able to do my legs in weeks, lookin forward to getting them waxed when the baby finally is here and i can finally move about a bit!

BBQ this afternoon, everyone is taking the kids and the cards to the jetwash carwash place, should be good fun for them, and also im hoping to have a uninterrupted lie down whilst they do that. my patience is running thin at the moment, snappy pregnant woman doesnt cover it!!

Hello fellow SPD Sofa dwellers!

Readng through todays posts, it seems everyone is a bit more cheerful which is what we like to see isn't it? Must be the sun (although the heat at night is a killer isn't it?).

kt Having the end in sight appears to have done you the world of good! I might try and talk to my doc about a cut off point to induce me because I'm turning into a right miserable, sleep deprived hag!

Also I love your hedgehog adventure! What a thing to see sniffing around your biscuits!

LooL00 and MrsM I hope you've both been taking it easy after over exerting yourselves with flossing and car hoovering!! Isn't it insane the way the smallest thing can send you into excruciating pain spasm??!

MrsS If you do weeding you are actually a hero or insane! I couldn't even contemplate something so strenuous! I'm a big wimp!

FIL did a bbq this afternoon which was fab. So sat outside and had yummy food which cheered me up no end!

Well, I did manage to get through my shift at work, but after having a good couple of days painwise (havent been at work for a few days) I was amazed when I was waddling round in pain after about half an hour there!! Consequently no weeding for me when I got home... DH had luckily started it anyway. SO I just sat in the grden revising for my exam on Wed. We had a mini bbq and I'm now installed on the sofa - DH is snoring next to me!! Hee hee - he's not used to hving to do the gardening, that is definately my domain!!

kt hope your bbq went well and you got to have some fun without too much come back.

LooLOO you'll have to get used to flossing with no mirror - who knew that was such a dangerous activity hey?? Have you tried those ready made flossing instrument things you can use with one hand so you could hold a little mirror in the other??

LeoniPoni glad you are enjoying the bbq weather too. Saw you on the Little Amy thread, I couldn't bear to post anything myself. I did NO revision tht day was so busy reading pages of posts!! What happened to the thread though?

Now, Other than my usual pelvic pain (mostly left SI joint) I have been having some more dull achey type pains a bit like a stitch, on the left again but more like inside me rather than my bony pelvis as such. Bearing in mind I am only 18 weeks do you guys think this just sounds like normal ligment/uterine stretching/growing type pains?

xx

MrsS Sounds like stretching ligaments to me! When I started getting those stitch type pains it wasn't long until I popped!

Yeah the LittleAmy thread got out of hand fast didn't it?? I couldn't stop reading but it was actually stressing me out a bit! I think in the end LittleAmy requested it was deleted.

It was mental. I was convinced she couldnt be for real which is the only way I managed to stop myself posting but she has posted on other threads and seemed much more 'normal' whatever that is?! I think perhaps she is just having a hard time??

Popped as in got a big bump? I just feel fat at the moment - but my usual wobbly bits are much less wobbly. I can't wait to have a proper noticable bump. It'll give me an excuse to do the waddling walk which I already have to do when my pelvis is bad!! People won't jsut think I am mad any more, or have a bad ankle or something which is what most people ask... if only!!!

Yeah, I was trying to not be too judgemental as I've said my fair share of stupid, thoughtless things in my time and it would be a shame for her to alienate a group of people that could offer her such support.

Yeah I popped and it seemed like overnight I was a real waddling preggers lady!

I was delighted when I got my bump! It made everything so real, and it was so much easier to feel him move!

leoniponi the sunshine definitly helps a lot

mrsS sometimes things just take a hell of a lot more out of you than you realise, best to take it easy than to regret it later. then again im completely a do as i say not as i do type person when it comes to advice!

mrsM hope your doing alright out there and youve had another nice day

todays been not too bad, DH and mum took the kids to the car wash and the park around lunchtime, so i got to have a rest in the quiet (massive headache today) before they all came bounding in again! no more hedgehog adventures, but the MIL and FIL are bringing down their sofa down to us tomorrow (was £3000 new, leather!) so im going to have to be all happy clappy and not too depressed lol.
another night of non sleep tonight, its fairly warm still but ive had the doors open all day

hopefully we all wont be kept up by the heat and we can get all the kids to school ok in the morning

Hope you get some rest tonight kt. Not long to go now!!! Hecky thump. I am very jealous - not of the horribly hard time you have had obviously, jsut 22 weeks seems such a long time to wait. I'll still be on here talking about my flamin hips and you'll have a 4 month old!!!

I really am trynig to take it easy and mnaging to at home, its work thats the problem (well, only about 1 day a week of my word). I'm working 3 night shifts (12 hours) next weekend and I am actually frightened about how I will cope.

Anyhoo... happy positive thoughts!

x

mrsS ooh night shifts, seems like thats going to be very difficult. i would take the rest wherever you can get it so you can survive through work as best you can.

2 days to go....MIL and stepFIL are coming down today to offload their sofa around lunchtime, got a mate buying my Wii and Wii fit off me as well picking it off after lunch, busy lunchtime. planning to get dave to take me out for a ride in my chair this afternoon to go and sit outside in the winebar drinking pineaplle juice....will see when MIL leaves...

hope everyone has good days, enjoy the sunshine if you can, and take as many painkillers as you need folks, take it easy

Morning all.
Glad to hear of some cheery weekends - we went on a lovely picnic with lots of other families. Kids paddled in a stream. I sat under a tree on a camping chair with my feet up on a cool box. bliss. First time I've been anywhere other than home / parents' house since October last year! (husband very ill late last year...)

I'm officially due at the end of this week, but desparate to get the baby out this week as would love my husband to be home with us for half term next week. I've been having BH all night for days so sleeping v badly, but they never come to anything.

Anyone doing anything interesting this week? Apart from you, KTW - you're having a baby!

Feeling a bit better after some serious rest yesterday. When I get shooting pains in my back I can hardly walk whereas though the ones in the front don't seem to stop me putting my feet down in the same way.But when things start to get worse again I freak out a bit as there's not much room for worse now with me.
I found the littleamy thread quite wierd. It's a bit of a mix on the pregnancy threads of pg women who can be very opinionated and hormonal and then a load of people who aren't pg and are feeling a bit more robust wanting to have a hearty discussion.

mrsS they do hurt those stitch type pains don't they, but they should go away and then come back once in a while.TAKE IT EASY!

Hope your headache has gone away and your sofa arrives so you can get out for that pineapple juice KTW. We had my mum 'offload' a whole lot of furniture on us when she moved house and we are now in the process of replacing it all as we don't really like it! DH works in antiques but I'm an Ikea girl at heart.

How many weeks to go Leoni?

How are you Whimsi? Very quiet!

Morning! Hope the night wasn't too horrific for everyone. I managed a good solid 4 hours, which as we know is not to be sniffed at!

Whimsi the picnic sounds lovely! It must have been such a treat to finally be somewhere other than your house or your parents. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for you to deliver this week. It would be good for your husband's paternity leave to coincide with half term!

I've got a midwife appt on Thurs and me and my fiance are going out for lunch on Fri and to pick up a moses basket. Nothing as exciting as being induced! BUT I can always pray for labour to start, its not totally uncommon at 36 +3 is it? Its considered full term at 37 right?

Hi Whimsi, didn't see your post and have been typing very slowly. Hope your baby arrives this week.
I'm not doing anything interesting this week except trying to keep mobile enough to get the kids to school and nursery and cook for them. Midwife on friday for my birth plan but I'm not going to write much on it except that no way is anyone coming anywhere near me with forceps unless I have had an epidural. My actual plan is a nice quick home birth and if it gets to the induction stage I'm writing a new plan.

Everyone's going to hver their little bbies before me!!

LooLOO I've not really got into the whole ethos of MN thing yet I don't think. It's a bit scary!!

kt good luck with the sofa/Wii/pineapple trip - hope you do mnage to make it out. Would probably be good for you - make you feel a bit more normal, not that you're not normal, oh god, you know what I mean

whimsi glad you have been enjoying the weekend like the rest of us. Keep stuffing the pineapple and curries in!!!

Leoni 4 hours sounds pretty good at 36 weeks hey? I'm pretty good at sleeping, just not so good at ignoring the dove/pigeon monster outside my window or the flamin gas men who have started digging up my road. Ah well, I should be revising anyway!! Am going to sit outside and top up this tan before it gets too cloudy.

mrsS your time will come, dont worry!

looloo i know what you mean, theres no space for things to get worse pain and immobility wise

leoni yeah 37 weeks is considered term, thats why im being induced when i hit 37 weeks. any chance you could persuade your Dr to induce you a little earlier to kick start the recovery process? worth asking sometimes

whimsi sounds fantastic, it is nice to get out and see the world. would be fantastic if the baby comes on the weekend, then you can have the whole of the half term week with everyone around giving you a hand

Oh sorry LooL00 I missed your last post. Yeah I've got about 3 and a half weeks to go. I'm so ready, it's unbelievable!

kt I'm going to see the midwife on Thurs and the consultant is always around for questions so I'm going to start leaning on her!!

Won't be long now then Leoni,I wasn't ready at all until this morning when I ordered a TON of stuff online from boots. I ordered 8 packs of maternity pads which maybe a bit OTT but with the last 2 I've never had enough and DH is not very good at choosing feminine hygiene products!All I've got to do now is order a moses basket from John Lewis and wash the pushchair while the weather is nice enough for it to dry.

well done Looloo going on line! I was crippled the day after my big boots shop (though I did enjoy getting all those points!) even though a very helpful man carried all the bags to the car.

I'm still fuming that ocado won't deliver to my neighbourhood.

Yes whimsi I knew boots would cripple me as it's got too big and is beyond my walking capacity. I can't imagine how big the parcel will be,but it won't be very heavy.

What is it with shops being so big! I totally feel for old people now.

Any advice for trying to explain this to people without it just sounding like you are being a wimp with normal pregnancy pelvic pain?

I keep just getting sympathetic looks and comments like 'it does get better you know' and 'oooh, you are a bit early for having pain' and 'those ligaments stretching are bad but you get used to it'.

When you're describing it make sure you use phrases like "I have been diagnosed with SPD" ('diagnosed' - v. important word!), "often results in total bedrest, use of crutches or wheelchairs", "my physio says..." and describe how you can feel you pelvis and hips moving about and feel like you're coming apart at the seams!