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Back pain and picking up a toddler:

middlemarch26middlemarch26 member
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Any tricks?  My lower back (sciatic nerve?) is KILLING me.  I want to cry every time I have to pick up DS, and I think carrying him around is making it worse and worse.  Obviously, I'm trying to minimize the amount I pick him up, but he isn't walking yet, so it's unavoidable a lot of the time. 

Anyone else feel my pain?  Anyone have a magical cure?  :)

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Re: Back pain and picking up a toddler:

  • howleyshellhowleyshell member

    2 pieces of advice:

    1.  Bend at the knees.

    2.  Seek treatment for the sciatica.  Chiropractic care gave me a lot of improvement.  Just be sure it's someone who specializes in pregnancy.

    It's hard stuff.

    To be frank.... by the time I was in my 3rd trimester I did everything possible to avoid picking up my toddler.

    Once we came downstairs we were down for the day because the stairs killed me and made me nervous.  I didn't want to fall/drop him.

    DH did a lot of the carrying and picking up.  

    DS #1 ended up preferring him because of it and it crushed me.

     

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  • iowagirl73iowagirl73 member
    I say check into chiropractic care if you haven't already.
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  • TrvlingbrideTrvlingbride

    I've had it twice this pregnancy (I attribute it to holding DD) and a heating pad did the trick both times.

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  • b&r2006b&r2006
    https://www.birthingnaturally.net/exercise/preg/pelvicrock.html
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  • jen5-03jen5-03 member

    There are stretches that you can do that will help - I found that both physical therapy and the chiropractor gave me the same exercises to do but chiro gave me at least a little immediate relief.  Stretch your quads and hamstring as well as your iliopsoas (the front of your hip - do a calf stretch/lunge type position but push your hips forward. If you're doing it right you'll feel it.)

    The most helpful thing you can do is sit up straight and always put a cushion behind your back. And I mean always - on the couch and in the car. Don't put your feet up and don't slouch. Slouching usually feels good when you do it, but it makes it worse.

    - Jena
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