Tailbone a bit sore since having a baby

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I gave birth a year or so ago and I've noticed that its a bit uncomfortable to sit in certain positions - feels like my tailbone is really.. bony?!

It's not all the time, or very painful, but I often have to adjust how I'm sat even on our comfy and soft leather sofa.

Is this anything to be concerned about or should I carry on ignoring it?

Birth was classed as traumatic, if that makes a difference

My tailbone began hurting during pregnancy, and continues to hurt to this day (baby is 19 months old!!). I've asked the doctor several times about it, and he thinks maybe I bruised it somehow and it just hasn't recovered. He didn't seem to concerned by it anyhow.

You may want to have it looked at, but I suspect there's nothing that can be done. My mother broke her tailbone giving birth, and all they could do was give her painkillers until it healed.

My tail bone got damaged during birth. Apparently it is quite common. I got referred to physio very swiftly by my GP after mentioning it at my 6 week check. Ask for a referral. A tip from Physio was to get a small ball and massage the area by sitting on it so it is in contact with the effected area. If that makes sense.

Mine is still not right, 4 years on. However I am managing with a lot less discomfort nowadays by avoiding sitting too long. Also my work bought me a bespoke office chair specifically made to ease coccyx pain (the seat cushion is empty under my coccyx so it floats over a cut-out in the cushion) and that has made all the difference. Before that I was on a standard office chair and moving from a standing to sitting position was tear-inducingly painful.

I avoid the chairs in doctors waiting rooms etc; it is better for me to stand. But I no longer have pain when sitting on our sofa, either because my coccyx has healed a bit or because my working day is now spent on a better chair, so I am not damaging it further.

You can buy a special cushion which has a cut out part for under your coccyx, so that you aren't putting pressure on it when you sit (even on your soft sofa your weight will be on that bone)

do get it checked, and preferably a referral to an orthopaedic surgeon. might be displaced and need specialist physio to put back. I had this and physio wasn't enough, so I had 2 lots of steroid injections and manipulation under anasthaesia, which did the trick.

I had this, was referred to an orthopaedic surgeon who could only offer me hydrocortisone injections. The x-ray didn't show anything abnormal. I went to an osteopath in the end - I know lots of people don't like osteopaths - but it was fixed by this. I had a few sessions and went from not being able to sit to being comfortable again after just a few sessions. I can't remember what reason was given for the pain, but I put it down to the fact I'd had an epidural and a very long labour ending in a c-section, and that I must have being lying in some way that hurt the muscles/tendons around my coccyx that I couldn't feel because of the epidural. Whatever - it was sorted. If you don't like the idea of an osteopath, a physiotherapist might be good - I've had great help from physiotherapy for a bad neck.