Brittany Mahomes, former professional soccer player, has been busy spending QT with her family after her husband Patrick Mahomes’ big Super Bowl win. But the 28-year-old just took a break from her regularly scheduled Instagram posts to share that she has a fractured back.
Brittany casually slipped the news into her Instagram Story with a Boomerang selfie video. “Just a daily reminder: Once you have kids, please take care of your pelvic floor. Seriously,” she wrote. Brittany signed off writing, “a girl with a fractured back.”
Her next story featured a shot of Patrick holding their daughter Sterling’s hand. (Not pictured: The couple’s 1-year-old son, Bronze.) “But vacaying with my homies will maybe make it better?” she wrote.
Back fractures can happen post-childbirth—but they’re relatively uncommon.
Unfortunately, this can happen after you have kids, says Yves-Richard Dole, MD, an ob/gyn with Metropolitan OB/GYN, an affiliate of The Family Childbirth and Children’s Center at Mercy. “The pelvic floor is connected to the lower back, and each of the bones are connected together by a series of ligaments and tissue,” he says. Childbirth is “stressful” on your body, and it can leave your pelvic floor unstable in the aftermath, Dole explains.
“If there is a lack of stability, it can lead to further injury,” he says, noting that you can wind up with a fractured back from doing a range of activities. Dole also says this can be especially risky for active women. Still, he points out that this is “relatively uncommon.”
