Hip Pain while sleeping on side?

Re: Hip Pain while sleeping on side?

• arom729 member

  November 2010

  Try sticking an extra pillow between your knees for a few nights.  If it helps, then you may want to get a body pillow!  It is supposed to help
  

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• loregopar

  November 2010

  arom729:

  Try sticking an extra pillow between your knees for a few nights.  If it helps, then you may want to get a body pillow!  It is supposed to help
  

  Yes! I sleep like this every night, it helps me. Though towards the end not even that helped, so be prepared...

  The only bad thing about a body pillow (other than the space they take) is that turning with them under the covers is a nightmare (at least for me). Think about that before you buy one, maybe a king size pillow would do. HTH!
  

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• jamlsull member

  November 2010

  I posted about this yesterday & have been suffering as well!  I don't have a body pillow & normal pillows don't work between my legs since they aren't long enough to reach my feet as well.  Last night I folded up one of our fluffy couch blankets and put it between my legs.  It did help some but not totally.  But yeah, switching sides with that or a pillow under the covers sucks!

   

  

  
   

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• Neukim

  November 2010

  honeslty not much helps, prepare not to get a good night sleep the rest of your pregnancy.  Pretty soon your legs and whole side start to go numb, at night.

  

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• arom729 member

  November 2010

  jamlsull:

  I posted about this yesterday & have been suffering as well!  I don't have a body pillow & normal pillows don't work between my legs since they aren't long enough to reach my feet as well.  Last night I folded up one of our fluffy couch blankets and put it between my legs.  It did help some but not totally.  But yeah, switching sides with that or a pillow under the covers sucks!

  I use a long pillow, I guess it is technically a body pillow.  I have one end stuck down at the very end of the bed, and the top then hits right around my knees.  I really like how I can straighten my top leg on top of it.  You can find them at Bed Bath & Beyond. 
  

  Because the pillow is stuck down at the end of the bed I don't have to really move it when I roll over.  If I roll over I just yank it a little so it angles the opposite direction.
  

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• jamlsull member

  November 2010

  arom729:

  jamlsull:

  I posted about this yesterday & have been suffering as well!  I don't have a body pillow & normal pillows don't work between my legs since they aren't long enough to reach my feet as well.  Last night I folded up one of our fluffy couch blankets and put it between my legs.  It did help some but not totally.  But yeah, switching sides with that or a pillow under the covers sucks!

  I use a long pillow, I guess it is technically a body pillow.  I have one end stuck down at the very end of the bed, and the top then hits right around my knees.  I really like how I can straighten my top leg on top of it.  You can find them at Bed Bath & Beyond. 
  

  Because the pillow is stuck down at the end of the bed I don't have to really move it when I roll over.  If I roll over I just yank it a little so it angles the opposite direction.
  

  Great idea...I think I'll be trying this.  Thanks!

   

  

  
   

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• amahrey

  November 2010

  ugh.  i have been waiting with dread for this to start.  this was the worst part of pregnancy for me last time.  i could make it about 20 min before i couldn't take it anymore and had to roll over and i would do it all night.  the one positive though, is that for me it only lasted a few weeks. 

   

  i hope you find a solution and that your hips start feeling better soon!
  

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