A young mom came to the clinic today, recently plagued by back pain, and after an X-ray examination, she was diagnosed with a herniated lumbar disc. She looked puzzled; I’ve just been holding my baby for a month or so, how come I’m so tired? He wasn’t tired, he just had a problem with the posture of holding the baby. As a new mom, anyone would like to hold their lovely children more often, but due to the unscientific posture of most people holding their children, not only does it damage their spine, but also affects the normal development of the child’s spine. Because of the love of the child and other reasons, some mothers pick up the child is not put down, a long time fixed position to hold the child, will make the new mother’s chin unconsciously raised, one shoulder will be shrugged, which will change the normal physiological curvature of the cervical vertebrae, a long time not only prone to cause cervical strain, but also make the cervical spine joints are misaligned, affecting the blood supply to the brain, so that the person dizziness, headache. What’s worse, often this way to hold the child is also easy to make the new mother’s wrist and fingers due to excessive fatigue caused by repeated friction of the tendon, and then tendon sheath hyperplasia and adhesion, affecting the normal activities of the tendon, and ultimately lead to tenosynovitis. If left untreated, the pain in the wrists and fingers will worsen, and they will be afraid to move around, seriously affecting the quality of life. There are also some new mothers who are used to arching their backs and bending their backs when picking up their children from the crib, which can cause a huge load on the lumbar spine. We said earlier, when people bend directly to the ground when the heavy objects, the lumbar spine to withstand the load than the usual increase of several times, and hold the child is more to increase the burden of the lumbar spine, at this time, if you do not straighten the back, and still maintain a bowed posture, will make the body gravity line forward, forcing the lumbar vertebrae like a bowstring to bear the enormous tension, over time will cause lumbar muscle strain, which induces lumbar intervertebral disc herniation. Therefore, when holding the child we should pay attention to two points, one is not to fix a position for a long time to hold the child, should be more to change the position, to prevent the spine from being tired; the second is that when you hold the child up from the low, do not bend over directly, you should first bend the knees to squat down and hold the child to stand up to the use of the joint strength of the lumbar muscles and the muscles of the legs.