elizlyle

Hi Emily! I’m curious if you and Dr. Fox studied the research on SPD. I had it with both pregnancies, and with my second, it was pretty extreme and debilitating – I was using a walker to get to the bathroom at night, for example. (Interestingly, the morning after delivering, I was like a new person after months of declining mobility and pain – it was unbelievable.) My doula described it like this: “SPD is to pelvic girdle pain as hyperemesis is to morning sickness”, which did a LOT to make me feel seen and understood. And miraculously my L&D nurse was 35 weeks pregnant herself (hero) and suffering from SPD, too, so she was able to help me navigate the delivery process and help the medical team to help me with being extremely careful in all the subtle ways that matter with SPD. Anyway, my question is: do you have any research on SPD, and particularly whether one should expect it to happen again if it’s happened before? We are likely to forgo having a 3rd simply because of SPD and how hard it was on my body and our family as a result. So it’s a big question on our minds!