What is the reason for back pain one month after giving birth?

We all know that if women do not take good care of their bodies after giving birth, they are particularly prone to the occurrence of some diseases. Among them, back pain one month after delivery is the most troublesome symptom for many female friends. Such symptoms often cause headaches for women and they cannot take better care of their babies. In order to relieve such symptoms in time, let’s understand what is causing the back pain one month after delivery?

What is the reason for back pain one month after giving birth?

1. Pregnancy causes great changes in the endocrine system. In order to ensure the smooth delivery of the fetus during childbirth, the ligaments connecting the pelvis also become loose. In addition, the growing uterus gradually increases the support for the pregnant mother's waist, causing the sacrospinous ligament to relax, compressing the pelvic nerves and blood vessels and causing low back pain.

2. The endocrine system changes after delivery and will not return to its pre-pregnancy state quickly. The pelvic ligaments remain relaxed for a period of time, the abdominal muscles become weaker, and the uterus fails to fully return to its original position quickly, causing low back pain.

3. Postpartum mothers often have to bend over to take care of the baby, such as bathing, dressing, changing diapers, and frequently picking up the baby from the cradle, etc., or poor discharge of lochia may cause blood congestion in the pelvic cavity, which can easily induce low back pain.

4. Many mothers are less active after giving birth and always lie or sit in bed to rest; coupled with weight gain and increased abdominal fat, the load on the waist muscles increases, causing waist muscle strain and low back pain.

5. Not paying attention to rest after childbirth and making the body too tired, or often standing, squatting, sitting for a long time, or wearing a waist that is too tight, etc., can lead to lumbar muscle strain and induce low back pain.

6. Improper postpartum contraceptive methods lead to frequent abortions, or excessive sexual intercourse, which damages the kidney qi and causes low back pain.

7. Wearing high heels too early after childbirth will shift the body's center of gravity forward. In addition to causing discomfort such as foot pain, it can also affect the waist through reflexes, causing soreness in the waist.

8. Frequently adopting an inappropriate or unrelaxed posture to feed the baby will cause the waist muscles to always be in a tense state and cause damage to the waist muscles.

9. The normal position of the uterus is forward tilt and forward flexion. If uterine prolapse occurs, it will shift downward along the vagina and cause low back pain.

10. Accidentally being attacked by dampness and cold after childbirth can cause meridian blockage, leading to poor blood circulation and causing low back pain.

What to do if you have back pain after childbirth

If you suffer from postpartum low back pain, you can treat it yourself if it is mild, and you can use massage, acupuncture, physical therapy and external application of medicine to treat severe cases. Oral anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs should be taken with caution, because some drugs can enter the baby's body through breast milk, posing a potential threat to the baby's health.

Maintain correct posture at all times, and pay attention to your standing, sitting and lying posture. When holding a child, be careful not to let the child's weight press on your waist and back. At the same time, pay attention to the principle of "if you can stand, don't sit; if you can sit, don't lie down", because sitting and lying are both postures that are difficult to support the injured spine straight and correctly.

Most postpartum low back pain is a continuation of low back pain during pregnancy. As the fetus develops during pregnancy, the lumbar lordosis gradually increases, and the force on the posterior waist is greatly increased, causing pregnancy low back pain. If the body shape is not restored in time after delivery, it is easy to continue into postpartum low back pain. Incorrect breastfeeding posture and excessive fatigue after childbirth can also cause postpartum back pain. Medically, these are all considered postural low back pain, that is, low back pain caused by unreasonable posture, so the treatment of postpartum low back pain should focus on correcting posture.

The above is an introduction to what causes lower back pain one month after childbirth. After understanding it, we know that there are many reasons for such symptoms. Sometimes it is because female friends do not pay attention to rest after childbirth. In order to avoid such a phenomenon, female friends must pay attention to bed rest more after childbirth and do not let the body be in a state of fatigue.