I’m 21 weeks pregnant with achy hips??

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I’m 21 weeks, I am sleeping on my sides but it is absolutely unbearable. I find my self waking up from numbness and achy hips in the middle of the night. I have to walk around, stand for 10 minutes or so and stretch it out. My pregnancy pillow arrives tomorrow hopefully that will help? What else can I do? Anyone else have this problem and have a solution for it?

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Had this problem form 20w-40w4d when my babe came. I had pillows between my legs and that helped. Every time I got up to go to the bathroom I’d switch sides

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Not much to do but just try to have a bunch of pillows to help make you feel comfortable. The farther along you get the more uncomfortable you will become. No matter what I did or what position I slept in I was still in so much pain and uncomfortable at night.

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The pregnancy pillow will help! Also get a memory foam topper to add to your bed. I have bad hips and had the same problem you're experiencing with my first pregnancy. It helped soooo much!

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I had this with my previous pregnancy and now. The pillow does help. Also stretching before be. I have just now started putting a really squishy pillow under my hip at night too.

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I had the achiest hips, I totally feel your pain! Do you do yoga? I found that pigeon pose was super helpful in stretching out my hips and piriformis muscle, I would sometimes wake up and lie in pigeon on each side for a few minutes (or reverse pigeon when I got too big to do regular pigeon) and it helped a bunch. Also, having my husband press in on my hips really hard felt good too.

I’m 21 weeks pregnant with achy hips??

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