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redshoegirl
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reason #157824 that you don't want twins
redshoegirl
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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...)
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Re: reason #157824 that you don't want twins
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.
Jaime & Brent
Oahu, Hawaii | Sept. 9, 2005
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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.