My physical recovery

Recovering from giving birth was rough. Besides hardly being able to walk for days, and the intense back pain from the epidural and blood patch, I had the migraines to deal with. Talon had to help me in and out of bed and he had to help with a lot of other things. I'm so grateful for all that he did for me during that time. He took Leo to all of his appointments for me and really just did whatever I needed. My parents also did a ton to help us out. They cooked us dinner multiple times and cleaned our apartment and my dad even hung up a bunch of stuff around our place. All of them helped take care of Leo of course.

Those few weeks were really hard for me because I couldn't take care of Leo the way I wanted to. I couldn't stand and hold him at the same time because of the blood patch. I fed him of course, but I just couldn't interact with him at all because of the migraines. I felt bad too because I wanted to spend time with my family, but it was really hard to enjoy. The thing about post dural puncture migraines is despite the pain you're already in, anything you do other than lie down makes it worse, even sit up. I didn't look at my phone or any other screen for days because it hurt so much. Even the tiniest amount of light magnified the pain. In hindsight, I'm pretty sure the blood patch didn't worked because from what I've read it was supposed to make me feels loads better in a 24-hour time period. I probably should've gotten another one, but I guess I know that for next time, if it happens again.

After a few weeks the migraines finally subsided and it was a lot easier to get around. What lingered the most was the pain in my back from the epidural. Even to this day I still feel a twinge every now and then so I've been really careful about exercising, meaning I haven't started yet, haha. But it's been three months now and physically, I'm finally starting to feel like my old self again so I will be jumping into physical activity soon.

Of course, all of this was and is worth it because I have my Leo here with me now, and he makes life better.