My Back Hurts

[devilwhiterose]

After 19.5 weeks, I'm throwing the flag in. Unless I am laying flat on my back on the bedroom floor, I am absolutely miserable. I work 8+ hours a day and switched 3 chairs. It's like the center of my back, a little below my shoulderblades. I feel like a sissypants...but it's a burning aching pain. I don't know if I need more support or something cushy. What do you big-busted, pregnant mommy's do?

[princessgwynn]

Originally Posted by devilwhiterose After 19.5 weeks, I'm throwing the flag in. Unless I am laying flat on my back on the bedroom floor, I am absolutely miserable. I work 8+ hours a day and switched 3 chairs. It's like the center of my back, a little below my shoulderblades. I feel like a sissypants...but it's a burning aching pain. I don't know if I need more support or something cushy. What do you big-busted, pregnant mommy's do?

Sometime in the next crazy two weeks lets get together for dinner again and I will bring you some of the exercises my physical therapist gave me to help with that, the pain is really common for people who work at a computer all day (big boobs or not) and only gets worse with pregnancy. For now try this-

- make sure your knees are level with your hips when you sit, if they are not 90 degrees out from your body then they pull the muscles and can cause a lot of problems

- when you cross your legs always cross your right over your left (or the opposite if your left is your dominant hand)

- sit with your feet slightly elevated

- stretch!!! make sure you are standing up and stretching at least every 45 minutes during the day

- reach your hand around behind your back like you are trying to put it into your opposite rear pocket and let it relax in this position for a minute- this will relieve the pressure on the nerves that are causing that pain

- walk backwards up stairs when you can (and I know you have a ton of them!!) to help strengthen your glutes which will relieve the strain on your upper back

- make sure when you are sitting up at your desk that you are not curving your lower back forward, it should be held as tight to the back of your chair as possible

I have a lot more stuff I can share with ya' also!

[devilwhiterose]

Oh you are awesome. I need a new chair. Or a 2x4 to put on the back of it! These ergonomic chairs are crap. We should get together again! Hope, Ladonna and I were thinking about getting together after the holidays... Interested in something like that too?

[princessgwynn]

Originally Posted by devilwhiterose Oh you are awesome. I need a new chair. Or a 2x4 to put on the back of it! These ergonomic chairs are crap. We should get together again! Hope, Ladonna and I were thinking about getting together after the holidays... Interested in something like that too?

Count me in as long as the sea-monkey doesn't decide to arrive early!

[Cornbread]

This is good info, my back's been killing me too (it especially didn't like the airplane/airport seats all day yesterday and today)

[leftover]

You need to go to the old person store and buy a support belt. SRSLY...