Help! Back pain and a 22lb baby!

[Rosieeo]

Has anyone any advice? I've never had any back pain before but my lower back/bum is really sore, with shooting pains in my left leg. It is constantly uncomfortable but when I pick up my hefty 9 month old, it goes into spasms.

I will visit a doctor on Monday but has anyone got ideas for handling said baby and a busy 4 year old until it improves? How to pick him up/hold him etc? It's really starting to annoy me, I daren't put him in the bath!

Anyone? Have just put the kids to bed and am really feeling it

cant really offer any advise just sympathy i'm afraid :/

I did my back in from picking up my 6 month old daughter out of the cot and my back just went.

I left it for about a year, as at the time it wasnt so bad, but then it kept going into spasm. Finally got to the doctors and they put me in for some physio (was for over a year in the end) which helped to a degree but even now (4 years later) it still goes into spasm without warning.

The only thing i did was just avoid where possible picking her up. do you have any help at home?

Your spine needs to rest, and i am sure the doc & physio will say the same ... so will include NO lifting for a while. I had to avoid it for 6 months which was really hard to do, but it was that or a back operation ... i chose the former :p

hope you get on well at the docs

If its not too late one of those belt/seat things really helped me, hippychick

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How long do the episodes last Dillie, a few days? I thought that avoiding lifting would be the thing to do, but I just can't fathom how I can do that DH helps when he's here, but he works shifts so tea/bedtime is mainly my job. It's so frustrating!

Batteryhuman, I'm definitely going to look at the belt, the support should help. At the moment I'm kind of holding him up near my shoulders iyswim, if I carry him anywhere near my waist I can hardly walk.