No heavy lifting?

Question

Can someone explain to me the reasoning behind no heavy lifting when you’re pregnant and how early on that applies? My job is pretty physical and I don’t want to be lifting things if I shouldn’t, but I’m also only 4 1/2 weeks so I don’t want to tell everyone at work yet.

Answer

It's because of the hormone relaxin which you produce in pregnancy. Relaxin relaxes all the ligaments supporting your womb which allows it to expand and grow. However this same hormone isn't just targeted to those ligaments. It affects all the ligaments in your back, groin, hips and so on. So which Every thing more stretchy and loose your chances of a injury, I.e sciatica or a slipped disk in your back becomes alot more likely as the bones are not properly scaffold by ligaments for strength and positioning as they used to be. Hense no heavy lifting as that puts more pressure and tension in those particular areas. Anyone who has had an injury like the ones I have mentioned know they are no fun when your not pregnant and can take decent pain relief. Dealing with one of those on just paracetamol is a nightmare.

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My job wouldn’t let me lift anything heavy after 6 months. Went from working in grocery and dairy freezers to standing in the deli and on registers only.

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In some cases of you dont lift properly and strain your abdomen you can risk tearing your uterus from what Ive heard. Which can be fatal for mom and baby.

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I told my job straight away because I had to have a risk assessment, it might be early days but better to be safe than sorry.

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I think it depends on every individual pregnancy,  honestly. 
My 4th pregnancy I did power lifting 4x a week. My doctor gave the OK to continue up to 175lbs. (Which was a cut back from the 220 I was doing) I had a perfectly healthy pregnant and baby.

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If you are used to heavy lifting I think it fine to continue doing so if dr. Says it’s ok. I went to the gym with pregnant women who continued to lift while pregnant. I couldn’t because I had placenta prévia.

No heavy lifting?

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