u/SinkSuch2477

Looking for people with experience here / to compare notes so I have a better understanding of my condition in the context of PP

Bullet point version as I have written this out so many times!

-no pain during pregnancy
-40 hr hour labor, 3 hrs pushing with severe back spasm on left side
- no pain but barely any movement for 8 weeks pp due to a tear injury
- started moving around again and a day into that went into severe back spasm (11/10 pain, screaming pain) and had been in and out of that level of flare up for WEEKS. Torodol shots. Flexeril muscle relaxers. PT. SLOW recovery for months. Could only open doors for myself about 4 months out… could never hold baby while standing without pain. And that pain would normally progress to spasms within minutes. Same with any lifting or placing. Basically could not do anything but have someone hand her to me sitting down.
- adding cupping at 5 months.
- weaned at 7 months.
-added pelvic floor PT 9 months, but they say my pelvic floor seems pretty okay (hypermobile but okay??)

- now 9 m post Partum. Lots of improvement but still constant pain tightness and stabbing /pinching pain with most exertion. Hard to get up. Hard to sit long. Can’t drive for more than an hr without at least mild flare up.
spasms gone for past month. Flexeril management stopped since then. Still cannot hold baby standing up without pain and flare up. Cannot lift her or put her down or do anything but be next to her on floor or have someone hand her to me sitting down.

- steroid injection failed. Diagnostic numbing seemed to be positive for a few hours but steroid had no effect overall.

I’m just looking for any info, advice, anecdotes, comparisons. ANY comments.

I’m going to see a new dr thursday. Curious about other PP women’s experience esp as I know it’s all so different depending on cause of dysfunctions

I am hypermobile also…

Our baby sleeps between us on a king size floor bed. The set up is safe and nice - I have a pretty severe back issue that prevents me from lifting her in and out of anything so this, along with a lot of unrelated emotional reasons is why we cosleep. I feel very opposed to sleep training her with any kind of cio- even Ferber ish things or allowing her to fuss for a few minutes is extremely difficult for me/ feels unnatural.

That being said, she wakes up 3 ish times a night, and with my back issues I also am having a hard time not being able to move freely in the bed. I don’t want to give up cosleeping forever, but we are also at the 8 month mark and when I hear about peoples babies waking up once a night… I envy it. All of this is also confusing because she was in a 7 time a night wake up pattern during her 6 month regression… then hit teething and crawling at the same time… so many variables.

Does anyone have any experience of transition co sleeping babies to a slightly more independent set up (crib in the room, floor bed in the room but not in bed with you??)

What are ur experiences? She also just started crawling so that’s a whole other thing… I can only imagine if she was on a bed near ours she would wake up, cry and crawl off it to come back to ours 🤣

The other part of this is… will she even sleep better??

Any thoughts would be helpful

Hi everyone - I am dealing with severe lower back pain and spasm cycles for 7 months since labor -
I thought it was bulging discs but a doctor just diagnosed me as having si joint dysfunction - worse on the left side. It’s like my lower left back is in so much pain. And I’m constantly guarding and in spasm to compensate… then the flare ups it gets even worse.

I have been doing acupuncture PT massage….i am slowly getting better but I have constant flareups and it makes caring for my baby extremely difficult. (I cannot pick her up and stand or pick her up off the ground so I can only be alone with her for maybe two hours at a time and even that is very difficult)

He ordered a cortidteroid shot for that area and is recommending I continue targeted PT.

I also just made an appointment with a pelvic floor pt.

Does anyone have any experience with this issue? And /or experience with steroid injections?

I’m very depressed and feeling hopeless about this. It’s been so long that I have had constant paint and haven’t been able to do so much with my baby. Every time I’m in a dip I feel like I will never feel ok again. Then I feel a bit better or stronger sometimes for a few days and ultimately hit a flare up again.

Looking for any hope from people who have experienced this.