reason #157824 that you don't want twins

redshoegirl

My stomach has been hurting since the boys have been born. But every time I googled my symptoms, I kept coming up with answers that said it takes your stomach muscles a long time to get back to normal after having twins, and some pain is normal. So I kept ignoring the pain and just going on with life.

But it hasn't been getting any better with time - in fact, lately it's been getting worse. I spent most of yesterday fighting back tears because it hurt so much every time I had to stand up or bend over. One of the boys kicked me in the bellybutton and I actually thought I was going to pass out. So this morning I went to see my doctor, and it turns out that I have an umbilical hernia - it's more common in babies but can also happen in multiple pregnancies since the muscles are stretched so much more than in a normal pregnancy (although it's still relatively rare).

My doctor wants to give it just a little longer to try to resolve on its own and has given me a few light exercises to do ? but if it?s still hurting next month, I?ll need to get a CAT scan and stomach surgery to get it stitched closed. I strongly doubt the exercises will help, although of course I'll give them a try.

I love my boys more than anything in the world, but holy hell they?ve done a number on my body.

(Also, do I have the worst luck or what? All the complications I had during pregnancy and now this? And people wonder why I say I'm not having any more children...)

mrspresley

awww i'm sorry you've been through so much i have never heard of women getting an umbilical hernia from being PG, though i have heard that some women have their abs stretched out so much that they actually separate in the middle where they normally come together!

i know it sucks to have this hernia, but if it makes you feel any better the surgery is super simple/quick so if you do have to have surgery, at least you don't have to worry about it being a complicated procedure.

redshoegirl

mrspresley:

awww i'm sorry you've been through so much i have never heard of women getting an umbilical hernia from being PG, though i have heard that some women have their abs stretched out so much that they actually separate in the middle where they normally come together!

Yeah, muscle separation is pretty much par for the course with multiples, and takes a long time to come back together fully (I still have a couple fingers width of space between my muscles, which is weird feeling - on the multiples board there's someone whose muscles simply have never knit back together and she's going to have to have corrective surgery).

The hernia is a bit more unusual - I'm just lucky like that.

MrsNJSwimmer

oh, that's awful!  I hope the exercises work, but if they don't, I hope the recovery from surgery isn't too bad (or, you know, Ben will have to take care of them by *himself* for a week alone! )

SanHawaii08

ohh, i'm sorry Lisa - your body has really taken a beating with this pregnancy!  hopefully this is the last of it...   hope it gets better (either by itself, or with surgery) quickly! 

inamra

Eek! I didn't get a chance to catch this post earlier. So sorry to hear you have this and are in so much pain =( I hope it gets better soon! Hugs and vibes your way!