Pains in Pregnancy: OBGYN Shares Ways to Help SPD, SI Joint Pain, Round Ligament Pain, & Sciatica

[@breannaclark4070]

I just had my baby 3 days ago!!! She was born at 2:29am your videos have helped me so much in pregnancy and after! I was laboring at home for 22 hours before I went to the hospital when I finally was seen they immediately put me in a room and 15 minutes later she was born! It was crazy! I didn’t need stitches or anything and she is super strong and healthy already showing signs of 3 month mile stones!

[@shahanaray9918]

I'm currently at week 22 of my first pregnancy, and have been seeing a pelvic floor physical therapist since week 10! They are incredible and have been so helpful in tackling each issue that develops during pregnancy, as well as the issues I had already like sciatica and pelvic floor dysfunction. Highly recommend to any pregnant woman!!

[@Nonameyyyy-i7n]

Did your pelvic pain resolve?

[@alisalaska1786]

I have had sciatica since I was 13. The best stretch for it is pigeon pose. It’s a deeper form of the stretches a physical therapist or chiropractor will give you. Randomly discovered it in yoga class and it changed my life!

[@sarahjolley8366]

As someone who is 13 weeks and starting to get little aches and pains, thank you for this info!

[@SimplySami13]

29 weeks and i’ve dealt with sciatica so bad i couldn’t walk or put weight on my left leg without screaming 😭 stretches daily helped and i don’t struggle with that as much anymore but now the front pubic pain kicked in on the right side and it’s a constant pain that doesn’t go away. still have 10 weeks to grow so thanks for this video! hoping to find relief in some way!

[@dreamy12344]

Me too, it's freaking awful

[@johannaarriola-sit6802]

Im 20 weeks, and I’ve been having so much pain in my lower back, upper legs, and pelvis. The only time i dont feel pain is when I’m walking around a lot, when i stop walking i feel the pain come back.

[@natp1877]

Perfect timing! 32 weeks over here and this was so helpful to better understand some of the aches and pains I am experiencing. Thank you much!

[@taylormoore3950]

I am currently pregnant with my second baby. My oldest daughter will be 8 next month . When I was pregnant with her I had the WORSE pelvic pain. Rolling over, opening your legs, walking- literally anything was horrific. But none of my mom friends had ever experienced that so it’s so nice to find this video where someone else has had it too and is offering advice. I will definitely look into therapy. Thank you! ❤you guys are awesome.

[@leitot]

Rolling over is so hard now 😢

[@luciw8348]

Perfect timing! I’m 38 weeks and struggling with a lot of pelvic pain. Front and back of the pelvis 😳 walking and sleeping has been a challenge!

[@acutee2]

Sarah it is like the describing the pain is causing you pain, you look like you are going to cry :-( You've got this! And all of your viewers love and support you.

[@janinedear-barlow]

She's going to be sore as she just had a baby.

[@dianasmith5303]

THANK YOU! I'm pregnant with my second and in the second trimester. All the pains are coming on much sooner!

[@karengurske]

This came at the perfect time! I’m 35 weeks pregnant with terrible SPD since 25 weeks, I feel like I’ve tried everything! I do have a physical therapist but I haven’t been doing the stretches daily.

[@snookiekat11530]

I highly recommend pilates!!! I’ve been doing it every day my whole pregnancy and also physical therapy. I finished PT so now I’m maintaining on my own. I hope I can manage it. I’m at 20 weeks now and doing pretty good so far

[@rentalsuites1294]

Pilates is wonderful! Just be sure to do pregnancy-approved movements since many of the core exercises can lead to diastis recti

[@chelseac2409]

Thank you!!! I’m 20 weeks and this explains some pain I have now, and great information for future pain I might deal with. Thank you!!!

[@niathenaillady]

Wow I haven’t been here in a while you are pregnant again. I love when you are pregnant in your videos because I am too and your videos are so relatable. Congratulations on your new bundle

[@karireitz6568]

Thank you for sharing this incredible info!

[@vvviiiiiicccc]

Currently 25 weeks with my second. I feel like I got all of these symptoms so much sooner than with my first. It sucked! Luckily I'm doing good now but I know there's more to come!

[@morhy5501]

33 weeks and I am struggling with a huge pain in my hips through the night. Thanks god that (at least for now) all the pains you described didn´t catch me yet.

[@angelaminnameyer3880]

Thanks for the video! I found that using a pregnancy/eIxercise ball to do daily exercises was incredibly helpful for my pelvic pain. I went from barely able to walk to much more limited pain (on most days!).

[@RH-rj7gy]

Excellent video! Very informative and relatable! I wanted to provide some feedback on the audio and it may just be my phone. I could hear Sarah very clearly but at several points couldn’t understand Kurt very well. It was almost like he was speaking in a hushed tone. Not sure if it was a mic problem or a problem with my phone’s audio or if he wasn’t projecting enough but wanted to let you all know just in case. Thank you for the helpful, informative content!

[@EllieMae.]

Had to call off work today because my sciatica completely took over and I could barely walk 😪 I have 6 more weeks to go and I'm very ready to meet baby ❤

[@thayerwilliams905]

I had my SI joint get out of alignment around 20 weeks. I didn't know what was happening, but my toes started going numb, and then normal multiple times a day, regardless of what I was doing. Then it spread across the top of my foot, then up the side of my shin. Then my whole foot and half of my lower leg. By the time I talked to my ob about it I was fking terrified. It progressed from nothing to that in less than a month. The si joint pain started after I was getting numb up to my knee. He sent me to a chiropractor to get my si joint adjusted and put back in place, and see if that helped. It did. It was amazing. I slept like a baby that night and got out of bed without any pain. The si pain walking, rolling over, getting in and out of our truck did come back, but the numbness was gone. He gave me exercises and stretches to do to strengthen everything connected to that joint and adjusted me 2x a week til delivery. He explained it as your body doesn't target the place the relaxin goes, so it goes everywhere. And sometimes one place will get looser than the others, your muscles feel that uneven ness, and the muscles around that joint will then try to clamp down extra hard because it feels that joint is unstable and thats the only way your body knows to keep itself safe. And a lot of that pain is from the muscles working so hard, and not being strong enough for what they're trying to do. In my case, the joint had wiggled just the tiniest bit out of alignment - not much, but enough to pinch or push on the nerves going down my leg and into my foot. And that pressure was what was causing the numbness. The adjustment that day got things lined back up, and the numbness stopped. The exercises and stretches was for the muscles trying to hold the wobbly joint in place and the pain was them not being strong enough. So the pain lasted til after birth because obviously I was getting more pregnant the whole time, so I was absolutely trying to play catch up on strengthening those muscles. The chiropractor seriously saved my sanity and mobility the second half of my pregnancy. I'm planning on finding one for pregnancy 2 just in case. I will say I never hear this talked about so I don't know how normal this is..? But the relaxin doesn't immediately dissappear after baby's born. Your joints take a while to go back to normal. For me it took a year. It honestly felt like my bones were being held together by little threads that could break at any moment, and it was scary and extremely unpleasant. It took a year before they felt normal again. I'm thinking I'm the outlier there. But I'm concerned about a repeat performance for the future siblings pregnancy

[@pamelab6743]

I felt this way and it turned out I have hypermobile ehlers danlos which is a connective tissue disorder that gets worse in pregnancy

[@Paddyjk8]

Suffering through SI joint pain and I’m just in the 2nd trimester! It is way worse than my first pregnancy, making it painful to even walk. Looking forward to my due date to not feel 80 lol.

[@Jjnnssiinngg]

Thanks for this video! I've been having bad very lower back pain and I'm only at 13 weeks. It sounds just like SI pain. I have a connective tissue disorder already so my joints are already extra hyper mobile, I hope I can do some exercises that will help so I can survive this pregnancy haha.

[@lianakarpova2466]

Amazing as always! Thanks so much. Best team ever ❤

[@atruegem7579]

I have been watching you all since I found out I was pregnant with my first son! I got so much helpful information from you all and I really appreciate all you both do! Now I am pregnant with my second son! I swear you guys are pregnant the same time as me! I have an 11 month old this week and I am 19 weeks! @TheDoctorsBjorkman

[@chantellsenekal2641]

29weeks - SI joint pain. I agree with everything you said. When I stand or walk for longer than 2 hours at a time it kicks in, and only gets better with laying down. So far so good😁

[@reneeirena]

23 week pregnant and dealing with some back pain. Some of it is sciatica which I've had long before being pregnant, and some of it is from travelling so much in the last month. I definitely don't want to travel further than 2h at a time for the rest of this pregnancy.

[@Nikki30288]

I am on my sixth child. 4th back to back pregnancy. Make sure your stretch out! That is what helps. My core luckily hasn't been to bad but my neck has been awful. So I have to do bird dogs. But wow my body has been through hell. I was 120 lbs 4 years ago and I am right now 165 lbs in my third trimester. I will probably gain 10 more lbs than 3 months post partum I will be back to 150 lbs. What a crazy time.

[@jessicapratt5758]

You need to get Kizik handsfree shoes!! They slip right on without having to touch them! I live in them every day while pregnant and even when I’m not pregnant because I love them so much!

[@marquis101]

With my first pregnancy 6+ years ago, in the last 3 months I couldn't work or do much because of how severe my sciatica was. Now I'm 20 weeks with my second pregnancy and so far no sciatic pain but from 2 months in I have been dealing with round ligament pain. It's awful, and the further I get, the worse the pain is. It is constant, no matter what time of day or what I'm doing, the pain is there, on the left side of my pubic bone. It's excruciating. I cry myself to sleep because of it some nights. And my obgyn just said "it's going to get worse until after birth"

[@astridquarry1248]

I am so sorry to hear this! Internet hugs if you want them. I'm having rough round ligament pain as well - I cant move from sitting to standing without it hirting and can't walk for long before it hurts. It's so frustrating because it's the one pain that the professionals don't have any solutions for 😔.

[@KatGrga]

I've been doing stretch yoga especially for my hips and sciatica, everything was well until pregnancy week 22. I am paralized for days, sciatica pain is horrible. Going to start physiotherapy next week and hopefully will walk again. 😢

[@rachelrak4502]

I'm not even pregnant and have experienced SI joint pain and mayyybe RLP (during PMS). I'm trying to get back into strength training and it seems to help (specifically I am loving Plus+1 so far, I'm in TTC Block 2).

[@paolaloera9934]

I’m doing plus 1 too! Currently heading into 34 weeks pregnant. 😅

[@scovianathon6185]

Very helpful tips, thank you guys for sharing ❤

[@msneed86]

Can you talk about having fibroids while pregnant. 🙏 I am 25 weeks and found out I have 2 fibroids and experiencing pain. And my baby is breech currently. I found rest and taking Tylenol helps with the but would like to know more information about it.

[@eaglezero78]

My biggest pain issue has been stretching of my upper ab muscles, but I haven't been able to find anything online about that.

[@SonyaEthelMUA]

Have been experiencing numbness and tingling in my upper legs, cramps in my calves and general discomfort and pain in lower back 😩

[@zephyrsantander]

The amazon affiliate link is broken :/ I'd love to know what the specific belt is that is mentioned in this video!

[@PriPicz]

When I was pregnant I dealt a lot with sciatica. I found some online videos by PT's on stretches which helped and made my husband really dig in and massage this one spot that would relieve the pain for me. by the time of birth I made him do it 3 times a day 😂

[@janinedear-barlow]

Pain in my SI joints started about 6 months after delivery and still sore now nearly 6 months later. Knees are still bad as well.

[@bmoreesperanza]

Drs. You both are so cute...you even finish each other sentences. Im 31 weeks with new pain in tailbone and groin. I also experience gait issues as my center gravity is very off

[@justbe.yogameditation7873]

My pregnancy has been pretty cruisy so far, I was teaching 3 yoga classes a week up until 32 weeks. Now I'm 34 weeks and have developed a pinching on one side of my SI joint when walking. Very frustrating!!

[@kaylakinker7823]

My SI joint pain is so bad that I am currently boohoo crying. It's always worse after I lay down for a bit. It's so bad that when I try to get up to walk, I am not even confident I can take a step. I finally broke down and took some Tylenol. I've been waiting to get in with PT for 6 weeks already! I work out at orange theory about 3-5 times weekly and the pain is not present during exercise, it comes after rest.

[@sherylynsworld1244]

Thanks for this video. I thought I was the only one feeling these back pains. Can I request a topic for future video content? More of a pedia question I guess. Can you show us how to give your newborn their first bath? Do’s and Don’ts. Im in my 2nd trimester and it’s really giving me anxiety because I have no idea how to bathe a newborn and how often? Thank you! Your channel is a big help for me!

[@theresagiesen4079]

I have varicose veins in my legs that hurt! They are way worse with my second pregnancy than with my first. When looking for compression leggings, I'm overwhelmed by what's available online.

[@faryyyyyy]

SI joint cracks are the only way I get relief in pregnancy week 31 if I don‘t crack it once a day I can‘t move properly. let‘s see how long I can grab my knee and rotate on the floor before my belly gets in the way

[@melandrirheeder2102]

Is uterus hardening/contracting at week 15/16 ,normal

[@LUISABAKES]

Currently 30 weeks pregnant with round ligament pain since week 20! Just a quick question: which slip on shoes would you recommend? Your amazon link does not work

[@sunnyrainbowLTA]

I thought that lightning crotch was the sensation you get at the very end of pregnancy when your baby "drops" and you're getting more of that pressure on your cervix.

[@nonamehi]

I gave birth 4 months ago and my knees are completely shot. I can’t squat without terrible pain. I gained 30 lbs during pregnancy but am back to my post pregnancy weight but my knees are suffering.

[@cambrimorris3955]

I have never been pregnant, but I've been dealing with SI joint pain for years. Is there something I did to cause this pain? I am getting physical therapy for it now, but I'm worried it will come back when I am pregnant in the future. Can you guys speak to this at all?

[@NicoleGlennie-qt6fx]

Drs please help me ,. I’ve been having “electric shock” feeling all over my bump when I use my abdominal muscles. I can’t lay on my side because of it & no one knows what it is or how to deal with it. The OBGYN just thinks it’s the abs separating. Have you ever heard of this ? I’m desperate for any help it’s like torture

[@alaynabarnhart1248]

Any tips for rib pain? I’m at 32 weeks with my first and at certain times of the day my ribs are killing me to the point of almost being in tears! The only thing that has helped so far is stretching but it’s only a temporary fix (while I’m physically stretching) and my job requires me to be very active. My OB recommended a heating pad and warm baths but neither smooth the pain.

[@angelaminnameyer3880]

I am also suffering very much from this. Nothing seems to work except tylenol, however it has gotten a bit better with time.

[@hereforit]

im only 9 weeks, but It feels like Ive had round ligament pain since 6 weeks! is that normal?

[@iteshiagriffin9030]

I’m 6 weeks now and everything is starting omg. Mind that I’ve just had my daughter 3 years ago. It’s like my body is just moving so fast.

[@juliedew6669]

The relaxin joke.... 🤣

[@dhesirish]

I thought my lower abdomen and lower back pain was due to my oncoming period and ends up I am pregnant

[@danathomas2191]

This video came at perfect time for me too. I love watching your videos! I am not even pregnant yet but I am dealing with the lower back pain and back bone. Idk if its a symptom for pregnancy. This is my first. I am afraid to take a test and it be negative. I’m sitting at 9 DPO. I am experiencing constipation, tail bone lower back pain, cramps, and snappy with my husband! Lol 😅 Thoughts?

[@marthaejueyitchie9696]

Anyone else having mild cramping? Especially when lying on your left side.

[@amyhsueh8118]

Anyone experiencing carpel tunnel syndrome? It started for me as soon as I entered my third trimester! It’s so painful that I can’t even move my fingers or close my fists in the morning 😭

[@MeganLubben]

No ma’am!!! The lightening crotch is different than the round ligament pain! Lightening crotch is when my baby kicks me right in the cervix!!!!!

[@Kudravets-Diana]

V

[@tiffanym5871]

Omggggg

[@Romina3127]

To the guy, stop turning your head, very distracting 😂

[@Jessica-tz5cl]

Right, seems like he's playing around

[@banicata]

When did you become afraid of the word woman?? These videos are now so frustrating

[@kayloraa]

14 weeks today and my sciatic nerve is hurting so bad I don’t know what to do. 🥲