I haven't been to my midwife yet but will ask her of course, but until then am I supposed to not be lifting? How early do you stop lifting? I'm talking 100-200 pounds I guess transferring and lifting patients. Just got off work and realized my back is freaking killing me!
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Omg! I'd probably stop right away! Plus my back hurt me early on in pregnancy. I wouldn't add any more reasons to make it hurt.
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Right away! That is way too heavy! I was advised around 20lbs max to lift. I wouldn't lift that now though, anything above 10lbs or so I would get someone else to carry!
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Definitely stop now! I want to say I was told no more than 30lbs-ish?
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I lifted 42lbs (20kg sugar bags) on the regular up until 8 months or so & helped my friend move around 8 months too. But I wouldn't lift more than that!
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I thought the limit was 35 lbs. You should call your midwife to confirm. 100 lbs is way too heavy!
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@BabyBoecksMom: @sera_87: I was told by multiple midwifed nothing more than 20 lbs after 20 weeks.
I would not be lifting more than 50 before that.
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That's too heavy. My midwife told me not to lift more than 25-30 pounds.
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I was told by my doctor no more than 25 pounds.
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If you are working & transferring patients they will probably need a Dr. recommendation. It doesn't hurt to call your midwife in the mean time and let her know your concerns. She could easily write up a lift restriction for you now. Might not hurt to talk to your supervisor & let them know you are already having problems and see if they have any recommendations as well. I have known may women who have continued to work & transfer patients until full term. Personally I'd change to doing a two assist on the individuals that you need more help with & get a back brace now.
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I was told 25lbs as well.. which isn't a lot..a ream of paper weighs 20lb! I used to carry boxes of them but now I let other people. I'm taking advantage of not having to do any heavy lifting!
100lb is cray! Call your doctor and see if they're okay with that.
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25-50 lbs at most. I haul boxes with my job. My boss did all the boxes from 13 weeks on. I would definitely have someone else move patients.
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Wait, i missed that you are expecting congrats! I'd put a call into your midwife and discuss. I don't recall having any restrictions for lifting but I don't do a lot of it (desk job) so that is likely why.
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I was told 25 lbs.
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I was told 25 lbs. Definitely take it seriously, you don't want to go into preterm labor.
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I continued weight lifting at the gym throughout my pregnancy but that's very different from lifting awkward, unbalanced loads you can't drop. I stopped lifting boxes and things at work pretty early on. Lifting people, no way.
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I was told 25 lb, but I lifted up to 85 lb. However, this was a LIGHT weight for me.
100-200 is way too much. talk to your dr asap
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Omg! That's way too much.
I think 35lbs is the limit I was told. -
I do weights at the gym, so I'm still squatting over 100 lbs and lifting over 50 lbs above my head, and I haven't had a problem. I didn't try to go extra heavy, but I also didn't really start scaling weights till I had a big enough bump that it interfered with my ability to stabilize my core muscles. Basically, if it feels ok, I go with it, and if it doesn't, I scale back.
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25!
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I think it really depends on what you were doing beforehand and how your body is reacting to it now that you're pregnant. If it hurts, then definitely stop!!
Like some of the pp, I was lifting heavy weights before getting pregnant and I continued until one week before giving birth...about 135lbs off the ground (to my waist) and 95lbs overhead (I think I weighed 135 on the day I gave birth).
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Thanks ladies! I'm going to call the midwife later today and ask. It took me like 4 hours to fall asleep last night due to back pain Audi really don't want this to be a habit!
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