flossie1983
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I was wondering if anyone else has any experience of this...
I am about six weeks pregnant and the week after I ovulated I fell and landed hard on my coccyx. Ever since then I have had pain when I move and it I can feel it popping in and out of place. I cant have an x-ray because of the pregnancy but to me its pretty obvious that it is dislocated. I am being very careful and using a special cushion and I can live with the pain but I dont know what it will mean in terms of giving birth
I know that it can take months for an injury like this to heal normally, but given that the muscles relax during pregnancy, there will be increasing pressure on this area as the baby grows AND Im having to spend my days keeping up with an energetic two-year-old, I very much doubt that it will have the chance to heal fully by the birth, if ever. I know that its quite common to injure or even break your tailbone during labour and I would assume that Im now at an increased risk of a far more painful long-term injury if I have a natural birth.
The problem is that the doctors dont seem to actually know whats best. Ive read posts from the US where women would automatically be told to have a c-section under these circumstances but in the UK doctors are still very much against elective c-sections and its very difficult to get one. I know that it means a longer recovery period, but it would still be much shorter and less painful than dealing with a broken tailbone (which can leave you in pain for years).
Before I had this injury I had been planning a home-birth but now Im really scared of being in pain for years as its already quite debilitating now. Has anyone else ever given birth with a tailbone injury or been allowed a c-section because of one??
Thank you xx
I am about six weeks pregnant and the week after I ovulated I fell and landed hard on my coccyx. Ever since then I have had pain when I move and it I can feel it popping in and out of place. I cant have an x-ray because of the pregnancy but to me its pretty obvious that it is dislocated. I am being very careful and using a special cushion and I can live with the pain but I dont know what it will mean in terms of giving birth
I know that it can take months for an injury like this to heal normally, but given that the muscles relax during pregnancy, there will be increasing pressure on this area as the baby grows AND Im having to spend my days keeping up with an energetic two-year-old, I very much doubt that it will have the chance to heal fully by the birth, if ever. I know that its quite common to injure or even break your tailbone during labour and I would assume that Im now at an increased risk of a far more painful long-term injury if I have a natural birth.
The problem is that the doctors dont seem to actually know whats best. Ive read posts from the US where women would automatically be told to have a c-section under these circumstances but in the UK doctors are still very much against elective c-sections and its very difficult to get one. I know that it means a longer recovery period, but it would still be much shorter and less painful than dealing with a broken tailbone (which can leave you in pain for years).
Before I had this injury I had been planning a home-birth but now Im really scared of being in pain for years as its already quite debilitating now. Has anyone else ever given birth with a tailbone injury or been allowed a c-section because of one??
Thank you xx
