This is not easy for me. Taking it easy feels like pure laziness to me and so far I haven't done any of it. I've always been told that when pregnant you can't lift heavy things and you can't do as much as you once could because your body is more prone to sciatic nerve pain, among other things. Lately, I haven't been able to so much as wrap a Christmas gift or swiffer my floor without feeling like someone stuck a paring knife in my lower spine. The heaviest thing I've lifted lately is a 2 year old at church. I at least pay attention to what I lift... but just living every day life... I had no idea how many hings can cause back pain.
I recently purchased a cuddle pillow to help with such pains when trying to sleep at night. Overall, it works great. Last night, however... I think I finally did myself in. I sat in the floor and literally wrapped two... yes, two presents... I got up off the floor and with every step I took, I felt like I was going to collapse. So I lost a lot of sleep last night... and today I'm not any better. I am wearing a sticky heating pad to help, but I feel like I need to wrap my butt and legs in one just so I can function. To add to the nerve pain, I have a large cyst on my right ovary that is giving me more trouble than I could have imagined. I guess even in pregnancy, PCOS never ends...
I don't want to come off as complaining because I am very thankful that I even have a baby growing inside me to cause all this pain. I'll take it! It's just hard. I'm used to doing a lot, not sitting around. I thought it'd be easy to relax, but I'm too stir crazy and OCD. Now that I am approaching the half-way mark in the pregnancy, it's time to slow down a little. I admit it. I've done a few things I shouldn't have since being pregnant... the biggest no-no recently was when I ran out of the house (yes, ran) down the street after the dogs when they ninja'd their way out of the fence again. I wrestled them one-by-one back to the house... try being 5'1" and 5 months pregnant wrestling a 102 lb Great Pyrenees back to your house... when there are other dogs around distracting him from behaving... it's not easy. It was a bad move. Very bad move. I won't be doing it again.
I'm learning to take it easy and I hope I have learned my lesson enough to just stop trying to do everything like normal. We'll see...
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My sciatic nerve pain was almost unbearable at times during my pregnancy. But rest assured, it will go away once the baby comes.
ReplyDeleteYou're almost halfway there!
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ReplyDeletei thoroughly enjoyed being lazy when i was pregnant. oh wait...i still enjoy that...:)
ReplyDeletejessi, i want to warn you to be careful. true sciatica does NOT go away after you have the baby. trust me. i've messed up a disk from picking up jamie all the time while pregnant. sometimes, when it gets agitated i literally can not walk. it's crippling. you'll feel true sciatic pain shooting in your butt and all the way down your legs at times.
ReplyDeleteso even though it's hard, try to be "lazy." i didn't and i may end up needing surgery.
yeah Jessi listen to your good friend above, shes right. I messed my back up for good, and it all started with my first pregnancy and I didnt slow down like I should and I ruptured a disc in my lower lumbar, after having dd I had to have surgery to repair it, well this caused my spine to weakin and then each pregnancy after that it got worse, now I have two metal rods in my lower back fusing my lower spine together!! Trust me you will wish you were lazier after the baby gets here, haha! Slow down and enjoy the baby and the good side of being pregnant!
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