>Check out the way a young woman with pregnancy/lactational osteoporosis
>was treated at:
>
>http://www.obgyn.net/pb/pb.htm
>
>                OSTEOPOROSIS DURING PREGNANCY AND
>                      LACTATION
>                           by
>               Maria-Luisa Bianchi, M.D.,
>              OBGYN.net Editorial Advisor


I'm no docter, but this story sounds familiair to me. The pain the women complains about
looks like pelvic laxity, a pain caused by a very small  fraiction in the pelvic bones, due
to the pregnancy hormones (relaxine)  and/or heavy delivery (not in her case).

In the scandinavian countries there is much knowledge about this, as is in our country. I've
learned that in angelsaksic countires this is pretty unknown.

Treatment is: combination of rest and good exercises, combined with wearing a bandage around
the hips, to give extra support to the pelvis. The choice of the exercices is important. A
lot of common exercises makes it worse.

in most of the time this condition hreals itself, but in some women it doesn't. Sometimes it
takes years, and some women suffer from it for their whole lives.

as with everything, very often breastfeedfing is blamed for it , but this is shown not to be
true.

regards,


Annelies Bon
http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/abon/bfbronnen.htm
counsellor of the Dutch bf organization "Borstvoeding Natuurlijk"

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