What should I do if my waist hurts during confinement and breastfeeding?

During the confinement period, mothers often need to breastfeed their babies. During this process, they often experience back pain. At this time, you need to find the cause based on your own situation. First, it may be caused by calcium deficiency. Another reason may be excessive fatigue. In particular, it is likely to be caused by factors such as incorrect posture for a long time. You also need to consider the occurrence of postpartum diseases, etc. Therefore, the most important thing is to find the real cause of the disease so that you know how to solve it.

What should I do if my waist hurts during confinement and breastfeeding?

1. Adopt the correct breastfeeding posture: any posture that makes your waist feel relaxed and comfortable is fine. It is better to sit on a low stool. If you sit in a higher position, you can put one foot on a footrest or lean your body against the chair. It's best to place a pillow on your lap to elevate your baby and also to support his weight.

2. Pay attention to preventive work in daily life: ensure adequate sleep and appropriate activities, which are beneficial to protecting the waist. In addition, do not wear high heels too soon after giving birth to avoid adding pressure on the spine. New mothers should wear soft-soled cloth shoes. Don't do too much housework on a daily basis.

3. Avoid squatting or standing for long periods of time: The crib prepared for the baby should not be too low or too high, so that the mother often has to bend down to pick up or put down the baby. It is best to buy a crib that can be raised or lowered, and the height of the stroller should also be considered to make it easier for the mother to take care of the baby. Avoid bending over every time you lift or place your baby in the crib or stroller.

4. Appropriate calcium supplementation: If the cause of the new mother’s back pain is calcium deficiency, then you should pay attention to calcium supplementation. Eat more foods high in calcium. If the calcium in the food is not enough to replenish the calcium lost by the body every day, new mothers should take some calcium tablets or calcium oral solution in moderation. Of course, when taking calcium tablets or oral liquid, new mothers should first go to the hospital for examination to determine whether the low back pain is caused by calcium deficiency.

The following exercises can also help relieve postpartum back pain:

1. Maintain correct posture, including walking, sitting, lying, breastfeeding, and holding a child;

2. Often stretch your waist, squat and other movements to exercise your waist muscles. Do anal lifting and abdominal tightening exercises regularly every day to exercise your pelvic floor muscles. You can also do back physiotherapy or massage to relax your muscles.

3. Strengthen abdominal muscle exercises to restore the loose abdomen as soon as possible;

4. Do more waist rotation exercises to train the stability of the lumbar spine and restore the normal curvature of the lumbar spine.