Can't offer any solutions, I'm afraid. But you do have my sympathies - I've been putting up with it too. I meant to ask my OB yesterday, but she was called out to a birth so we had a really rushed appointment and I didn't get a chance to ask her.
I've been getting them too, I find that if I flex my foot up it eases them (if you point your toes it makes 100 times worse!), that's all I've been doing, hopefully someone else has some more ideas!
Try taking an extra calcium supplement. I bought the Blackmores Calcium with magnesium, and a few days of taking those my leg cramps settled to a point where they were more comfortable, and I could stretch them out easily.
Make sure its the blue coloured one, not the green (I think the green one is less sweetened?) - Very very sweet, but it worked.
Its been a while, but I vividly remember the leg cramps, and they were hell
Its a remedy my mum used and so have heaps of my female relatives.
It has to be the tinned juice, though - I remember Mum saying to me that she got normal pineapple juice and it didn't work.
I mentioned it to my OB when I was pg with Luke - he actually ended up recommending it to a few of his patients
I think it works because of something to do with the pineapple in the metal...???? Don't know, but it was my saviour
I just had a big glass every morning, and they just went away... I remember a few times towards the end of the 3rd trimester I had to have a couple of glasses... but that was very close to due date as well.
Good luck girls... I hope it works for you like it did for me
I remember those awful leg cramps from DS2. I found the best thing for me was to stand on a really cold floor. As my bathroom was the closest room, I would stand on the cold tiles for a few minutes and the cramps stopped. I do't know how or why this worked, but I have recommended it to a few friends and they have found it helped them too.
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