hey,
i know exactly how u feel, it has been happening to me alot the last few weeks
i woke up to a horrible ache feeling in my hips and now i get it in my side its driving me nuts.
i dont get any relief from the pillow between my legs, it just comes and goes. i asked my doc and he said its just part of lat e pregnancy ( yay us lol)
Hiya Rach, I could have written your post...I'm exactly the same and have just gone for an appointment with an osteopath two days ago and although I'm still waking up once or twice with pain it's not as frequent or as severe so it might be worth ago. It is a horrible burning pain isn't it, just horrible.
While I was at the appointment I got her to check my tailbone which I hurt when I gave birth to my daughter and it is so damaged and bent the wrong way she couldn't find the end of it so I'm terrified what implications this will have on this birth, so now I have to worry about that as well.
Well I hope things get better for you, cheers Missy
Rach and others, I'm hearing you. This type of pain is really common - unfortunately the hips, lower back and pelvic joints all start to cop the brunt of our bubbas growing and moving down low in late pregnancy.
Seeing an osteopath who is experienced in pregnancy would be a good idea - they can give you some exercises that will help strengthen and realign the joints. Pilates based exercise is also fantastic. If you're sitting on the lounge at night put a pillow under your knees to take the strain of your lower back and sacral joints.
Good luck I hope it doesn't get too bad for you.
x Lolly
Gosh, I'm experiencing this already and I'm only 25 weeks! I had my first night of pelvis pain about a few weeks ago and another bad night last night. I actually had pain in my groin last night along with the pelvis pain so I'm a bit worried about SPD. Thankfully for me it's not a constant pain yet, just a couple of random nights of discomfort at this stage.
I've had A LOT of hip pain for months and it got so bad I couldn't handle it anymore. After being told 100 times by the doctors it's just normal pregnancy stuff and all I can do is live with it, I got some acupuncture done and although it didn't cure me, it's so much less painful. Maybe worth a shot?
Same thing happening here, but... I swapped my body pillow for a thinner cushion and that seemed to help. I'm seeing my Chiro today and hopefully he can work out if I have done something odd to myself! See someone sooner rather than later... the longer the pain is with you the longer it hangs around after treatment...
I recently had my son 7 weeks ago via c section and I had the hip pain and pelvis pain(spd). The best relief for me was the pool as gravity naturally took the pressure off my hips. I found the days that i went to the pool, the better my sleep was that evening. There was no swimming though, it was purely just hanging onto a kickboard and floating (helped me too with my swelling).
What ever you decide, try not to let it go untreated. 7 weeks post my baby being born I am still having a lot of pain.
Ohh and more support under my bump rather than the pillow between my legs seemed to help a little too. Good luck
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