My baby broke my BACK in birth!

SOS 😭 I’m 8 weeks postpartum. I just delivered our 4th baby girl 🎀🎀🎀🎀

After 14 hours of unmedicated labor, I pushed for 20 minutes and there she was! But in the process of pushing, I heard cracking sounds happening inside my body! I felt pops, but honestly, the pain of the contractions was much more intense than they were. Immediately after birth, I could tell something was so wrong with my back. It took 6 weeks for a diagnosis, but it turns out my baby broke it on the way out 🤯

Instead of a typical postpartum journey, feeling better around 6 weeks after baby, I have an incredibly long road ahead of me and I’m only just beginning. I’m up tonight shedding tears about the things I used to be able to do, that I may never be able to do again because of my back pain. I am so discouraged. I’m hoping someone else has gone through this and can encourage me 🫶🏻