A Mom Survey: joint pain
When I was pregnant, I would often hear about the pain of labor, the sleepless nights, the exhaustion at the end of the day, and many other of the trials of being a new mom. But no one warned me about how much my body would hurt. Prior to having Pearl, I considered myself a fairly healthy young lady with not much to complain about. Now, not yet three months later, two-thirds of the major joints in my body are bothering me, and two of them (left ankle and left wrist) are sometimes too stiff, weak or painful to use normally.
I have to wonder: is this one of the complaints all moms have but none mention, or was I so out of shape that a little baby is too much for my weak self?
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My lower back has always had aches, but now when it aches, it seems worse than before I had Savannah. Maybe it's just the memory of back labor?
Other than that, my joints haven't given me any more trouble.
Joint pain is definitely worse for me after having children. It usually takes my body about six months to get more or less completely back to normal after a baby. The first two to three months are definitely the worst.
I don't remember any joint pain until all of my episodes of sickness that happened when Laura was 2, & even then I don't remember anything other than shoulder pain (my first bout with a frozen shoulder, my right side). The doctor told me I had arthritis & I either said, or thought to myself, "I'm too young to have arthritis". I must have been 32, & in some ways I don't think it is any worse now, or either I have just learned to live with it. And whatever I have waxes & wanes, so I do have good days/times & bad days/times.
I've had joint pain since having kids, but always figured it was from the strain of all the extra weight I have.
I spoke about joint pain among the nursing mothers last night & several said they had it. One in particular said her doctor told her to get more sleep, & after getting 1 1/2 hour more per night, she felt much better, but still had ankle pain.