Carried 15kg child - reassurance please

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Worried I have done something silly - carried a small child down three flights of home stairs. He can't have been more than 15kg. He isn't my child, otherwise I would be used to carrying him and would have the muscle strength. I didn't feel any pain or strain and the weight was fine.
I am 10wks and since last night feel a spraining/pulling in my lower belly. No back pain. No bleeding. Am hoping it is general growing or sluggish digestion)
Has anyone else carried heavy things in pregnancy and it was fine. (I am a little angry at my stupidity because it took 6 years for this pregnancy to happen and what if I just ruined it . . . . . Idiot me! Won't do it again) the internet says it is fine to carry heavy things but i have a slight-average build and thin arms.
Am taking it easy today because I am terrified. Please be kind and I will be very strict with myself)

How do you think mothers with a child already get their children to bed whilst pregnant? You are absolutely fine, worrying like this is probably worse for you than carrying a child!

Should be fine. Pretty routine to have to cart toddlers around when pregnant with younger siblings.

Women work lifting things at 10wks. I know I did and I carried massive crates around. Now Ive got my perfect little boy

You can't "ruin" a pregnancy by carrying something slightly heavy one time. I carried my 15kg son all through my entire pregnancy, up and down stairs, jumping and dancing at toddler class for him, around shops etc, he is a lazy git who refuses to walk often so I spent a lot of time carrying him. It would be prolonged carrying of heavy objects that might do any damage, and the only likely damage is in injury to you as you're more susceptible because of the hormone relaxin.

You'll be fine. I'm 35 weeks pregnant and my 4 year old is about 18 kgs and I've lifted her plenty of times. At 10 weeks especially baby is very well protected.

Bloody hell. It's obviously fine.

I deadlifted 130kg a bazillion times at 37weeks with my cobsultant obstetricians blessing
Will all be fine

It's fine. You might be more prone to pulling muscles because your ligaments relax in pregnancy, but there's no mechanical reason for it to harm the baby.

I’m 26 weeks and quite often end up using my bump as a seat for my nearly 13kg 1yo! And occasionally my 18kg 5yo too. You’ll be fine OP, as someone else said, the risk is all to you anyway - injury more likely thanks to all the relaxin. Baby will be 100% not bothered.
On another note - hels I’m in awe of you! I couldn’t deadlift anywhere near 130kg even before I was pregnant!

Thank you everyone. Sorry for being silly. I suppose as long as there is no bleeding it's likely to be ok.

I think with big gaps between pregnancies you tend to forget lots of things.

I know mothers carry their older children around, but they do so everyday and have muscles trained for it 💪 But to do so all of a sudden is a bit different because my muscles have weakened since DC1 is too big to carry now - is six.

Thank you anyway.

What is it you think carrying something heavy might do? The only thing it might do is hurt your back if you don't lift right, because pregnancy loosens your ligaments. You can't hurt a pregnancy by lifting things.

Honestly, there's a reason no desperate woman who doesn't want to be pregnant tries to induce a miscarriage by lifting heavy things, and that's because it would never bloody work. You could lift one of helspopje's 130kg weights, and you'd probably bugger your back and regret it, but you'd be just as pregnant as you were before.

You feel fine, you are fine. Chill. You don't need to take it easy or cut yourself off from normal activity.

Thank you for the reassurance and for making me laugh my head off - everyone. I was worried I would have caused a strain in my womb and would start a bleed. But the pregnancy is otherwise not high-risk and I am not bleeding so fingers crossed. Will rest awhile and then resume normal activity.

As others have said you're more at risk of messing up your back than damaging baby - take it from me as someone who ended up on crutches by the end of my pregnancy
If you feel lots of aches try a bit of gentle pregnancy yoga, that helped me a lot.

I deadlifted 130kg a bazillion times at 37weeks with my consultant obstetricians blessing

< well impressed >

It’s more likely to cause you to be a bit stiff and/or sore than it is to cause any harm whatsoever to your baby - chemicals released on your body during pregnancy make muscles a bit looser and stretchier. I carried a load of heavy shopping the other week and my arms aches after it. Nothing st all to do with baby, Just my own muscles aching due to the chemical changes.

You’ll be grand.

I had a huge sort out the other week and kind of got carried away and was lifting storage boxes filled with paperwork. Etc some were really blooming heavy.. And up two flights of stairs.. It's fine.
I did ache loads the next day and thought, oops prb shouldn't of done that but like other people have said. People do it all the time x

A strain in your womb, for some reason that's given me a giggle. The womb isn't really used much in the lifting of heavy objects

Thanks everyone. As expected by you all, I seem to be totally fine, so I can stop worrying now. Plenty of other worries in the world.
Thanks for the insight and stories