Hey, I'm 7 weeks post partum and life has gotten very hard now that my partner is back at work. Before if I needed help, he was around and I was able to get someone to help me. Now, I'm by myself and I'm having an issue with hand pain. When the nurse was putting in my IV during labor she missed several times and I was screaming so much another nurse got so upset she fixed it. Since then carrying my baby has been extremely difficult. My left hand is basically useless. It hurts when I hold her for longer than 5 minutes. When my partner was at home, he would help carry her a lot and hand her to me but now it's all on me. She is around 9 pounds and it hurts me to not be able to carry my child without fear I will drop her. My hand is recovering very slowly and the doctor said some fluid might've leaked out leading to the discomfort and pain. I asked if they could extend my disability because my hand is not healing quickly and I have to carry around a 10 pound backpack at work. He stated that was fine and asked me how much time I needed. I told him I didn't know probably a week? It was healing well until I didn't have my partner to help and had to hold her myself. After the week, I called back to extend it and the lady that does the paperwork stated that she knows it wouldn't count and I should use my PFL. I told her I was saving that for the holidays and right now, I can't go back to work with my hand getting worse now that im lifting her. She stated that was too bad but it wouldn't count as a disability and if i wanted more time i should just use my PFL. Idk about disability and how that works but I can say that IV really fucked up my hand. I've had moments where I've cried to my partner because I can't carry her for to long without it feeling like I'm going to drop her. I don't know if its the post partum hormones but she just really pissed me off, because I felt invalidated and shrugged off. I understand why the birth rate is declining. The time off is not sufficient enough to recover and women are expected to return to work so quickly after going through body trauma. Had i known about the IV, I would've rejected it. I didn't end up needing it and overall it caused more harm then good. 😔
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