Before I got pregnant, I already knew I had a herniated disc at L5-S1. When I learned I was expecting, I naturally wanted to know how the two conditions would interact.
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My Upright Birth Story, Part 2
There’s a difference between making a medically sound decision, and being okay.
My Upright Birth Story, Part 1
I wasn’t sure how giving birth would affect my sciatica, or how I would manage when I couldn’t sit down. This is my labor story.
I Have Chronic Sciatica and a Sitting Disability. Here’s How I Prepared for Childbirth.
No one could tell me how childbirth would affect my chronic sciatica. Nor did I know how I would get through labor when I could neither sit down nor lie on my back.
I Can’t Sit Down. This Is What My Pregnancy Was Like.
I did not care for pregnancy. Especially not with sciatica and a sitting disability. But I liked the prize at the end.
Women’s Spines Are Made for Pregnancy
Since my existing back problems are hard enough to manage, I wanted to know what exactly would change with pregnancy. Would it exacerbate my existing problems, or put me at risk of new ones? Was there anything I could do to prepare myself?
5 Things Nurses Know About Standing (That You Should Too)
Sure, I may have acquiesced to standing at work, but I didn’t exactly suffer in silence. I can pour more eloquence into describing the pain in my knees, calves, feet, and heels, than I could into a love letter. But yesterday I learned I had something to be grateful for – at least nobody’s going to die because I’m uncomfortable. That isn’t necessarily true for nurses assisting in surgical procedures. It’s not like they can just pop out of a delicate operation and lay down because their feet got tired. And if their exhaustion gets the better of the them…