After having my daughter my libido has been in the negatives. When the husband and I finally do get around to getting down, it's been too long and I feel like I have to go through a bunch of different steps just in prevent injury. My lack of libido means that my husband is lucky to get sex once a month and extremely lucky to get it more than that. With that being said, I do go through phases of a huge peek in hormones and we'll do it every day of the month or at least damn near close.
A few days ago we managed to squeeze some time out of the day to do the deed while the kids were busy. It was so random that I didn't get to stretch before hand and ended up pulling a muscle close to my right hip. Because of the place of the pain it's moved up to my lower back. The first day it happened I went out shopping with my bestie and all the walking around and chasing after my kids made the pain in my back even worse. Bestie massaged my lower back for a brief moment and gave me a little relief (I'm sure that was fun to watch on the secruity camera in Hobby Lobby), but before we left the pain came back 10 fold. I could barely stand or sit; there was just no comfort whatsoever. She dropped the kids and I off at home and I laid in bed with my heating pad and got a lot of cuddles from my kids.
The next morning (Thusday) I couldn't even move. Husband had to come upstairs and help me get out of bed. I made my way downstairs some how but decided that I just couldn't handle it. Going back upstairs wasn't as difficult as coming down. I laid in bed for a while, it turns out that husband had called bestie and she came over just to massage my back and help me with picking up O from school.
I was able to lay there for a few hours with a little relief before the pain poured back in. I went to bed feeling worse than when I woke up and with throbbing pain all down my back and right leg.
I woke up early with the kids (because what else do I have to do?) and decided that I couldn't just do nothing all day again. I started stretching and doing yoga. It was so hard the first few poses, but then I had O come over and help me. He's 4 years old and has just enough strength to help push and pull on my back and legs when I ask. And to know how much to push and pull. I felt amazing after 30 minutes. 97% of the pain was gone and I just had a small tickle on the outside of my right hip.
Every time the pain would start to flood my back again, I stopped what I was doing and would bust out some yoga. O got to the point that he just didn't want to help anymore, so getting deep into the stretches became difficult and being a chubby female, I couldn't just do it myself. Through all of this, the only thing that has helped has been yoga.
Years ago before I even knew Husband, I was really into yoga. I would do it when nobody was around because I always felt like people were judging me (man, was I dumb). Now, I really want to get back into it and start doing it every day. I need to join a class and take care of it that way rather than just doing it at home.
Here's hoping I'm able to get my flexibility back! Use it or lose it is always 100% true. At least it is for me.
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