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This is a blog I wrote midway through my pregnancy as I was experiencing a very weird condition making it near impossible to sleep. Oh goody, sleep deprivation before <\/i>the baby\u2019s arrival. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Anyway, wanted to share as I\u2019d never heard of it and consequently didn’t find anyone else in my preggo circle who was suffering from it\u2026<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m writing this at 23 weeks pregnant, beginning of Feb 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

For months now I\u2019ve been suffering a burning, ache deep in both hips, flaring up mainly at bedtime.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now when you\u2019re preggers, and some sources will recommend even from as early as 16 weeks, you should be sleeping on your side, preferably the left. It goes some way to protect baby from being stillborn apparently. Ok, I\u2019m in. No question. Wrap and tuck that heavenly pregnancy pillow all up in my grill and off I\u2019ll drift to the land of nod.<\/span><\/p>\n

But what\u2019s that you say? Here, have some agonising pain that makes sleeping on your side near on impossible? GREAT TIMES.<\/span><\/p>\n

Again, caveat, caveat; I am THRILLED, AMAZED and ALTOGETHER STILL IN A STATE OF DISBELIEF that I am pregnant. I haven’t fully crossed over to the other side yet, the next level of the game where I\u2019m all \u2018look at me, I\u2019m pregnant and I really believe it\u2019. Hence not even blogging (well, publishing) it until post baby arrival. But in all honesty, I am not having an easy, glowing pregnancy. That\u2019s just how it is. So I\u2019m sharing my truths.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m on tenter hooks all the time. Just yesterday I got what I describe as \u2018that terrifying pain again\u2019 that creeps around from on top of my left arse cheek and sweeps around under my bump on the left. It quite honestly renders me too scared to move, unable to speak and if I can move I straddle my yoga bolster and rock until it passes. I\u2019ve had this maybe 4 times now, the first time happening on New Years Day 2018 in the shower where I literally fell to my knees. It is debilitating. I\u2019ve spoken to the midwives and have been told that again, if I can feel baby move (I HATE THAT QUESTION) and there\u2019s no other symptoms like a loss of fluid or blood then it is *probably* intense round ligament pain. Probably. That\u2019s reassuring.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway the hip thang. I mentioned it to my midwife and was told it was just everything loosening up. Cool. Then mentioned it to my GP and he didn’t know what it was. When I ended up in a&e the other night because (in an unrelated turn of events) I couldn’t breathe because of the most incredible stitch under my right rib, the docs there didn’t know what the hip thing was when I mentioned it to them too.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then I went to yoga. My Sunday morning preggo yoga class run by Rhyanne Hall of Living Yoga London. Each week before we start stretching and shifting our blooming bods, we go around the class saying how many weeks we are and any new or reoccurring symptoms we want to share. I mentioned the hip thing and Rhyanne just casually said \u2018that sounds like Bursitits\u2019. <\/span><\/p>\n

Never heard of it? Same. I then made appointments for Physio and learned that basically in different areas of our bodies we have \u2018bursa\u2019 which are like shock absorbers. And in pregnancy when the relaxin hormone is doing the rounds, some things give more than others and end up getting inflamed. For me, in my hips. YAY.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ok Ms Physio, fix me yes? No. Well, via some weeks of massage and manipulation things did start to ease but I was told that because I\u2019m pregnant the normal course of action can\u2019t be followed; steroid injections or ultrasound therapy. <\/span><\/p>\n

So while I\u2019m still being sick every 2-3 days, that\u2019s actually a piece of puked up cake compared to this condition. Sleeping is a mare. I will start on my left side, side straddling my glorious pregnancy pillow. We start off well. I go to sleep. A mere 2 hours later and I wake due to a deep deep hot burn in the hip I am resting on. No probs, I simply turn over on to my right but with the left still fizzing with pain. Then 30 mins later the right side kicks in and there we are, this spells out the remainder of my night tossing and turning, just wanting to sleep on my back but too terrified to because of baby. <\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m still working obviously, so to say I am groggy at work is a huge understatement. I joke about it but in all honesty I am fucked.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am trying various remedies at home; icing the area (probably not enough) to aid a reduction in inflammation, rubbing magnesium gel on the areas and taking baths with epsom salts. I prop myself up in weird and wonderful ways atop various wedges and pillows to try and take the pressure off my bottom hip. And I am not a fan of painkillers, especially with a teeny bub inside me.<\/span><\/p>\n

So there really isn’t a conclusion to this blog I\u2019m afraid, but wanted to share as I have been endlessly googling \u2018hips burning night time pregnant help\u2019 and nothing is returned. So maybe if your hips are hunks of burning love during pregnancy, welcome to Club Bur-shite-is.<\/span><\/p>\n

Vx<\/span><\/p>\n

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The products\/tips I turned to to try and ease those burning painful nights…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although nothing apart from eventually having the baby actually cured the condition while I was pregnant, I still tried the below, to varying degrees of success. I must’ve looked absolutely bizarre at night as I would have the full pregnancy pillow bridging over my body while the little wedge pillow would be sort of trying to create a gap for my bottom hip. It was NOT fun. If you’re suffering with this, I really feel for you…<\/p>\n

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  1. Pregnancy pillow<\/strong> – god I miss this guy<\/a><\/strong>. Why did I pack him up in the loft after baby was born? Anyway, using this pillow that you can literally rest your head on, straddle on your side or butt up against behind you is nothing short of heaven, even with bursitis. One way I would use it to try and take pressure from my hips was to, with one leg straddled over it and therefore one hip on the mattress burning up a fire of pain inside, I would rotate a little more into the pillow, as if I was going to lay more on my tummy (but of course the pillow doesn’t allow that and it’s unsafe obviously). But if you can imagine manourvering as if to roll over more to your front, straddling the top leg over the pillow and letting the bottom hip move further away and resting more of your front thigh on the mattress instead, you might get some ease for a while. BUY HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Wedge pillow<\/strong> – this was an addition to the mega one above. Still using the one above but in a different position, I would be resting my back more on the pillow \u00a0behind me rather than straddling one in front. I would then slip the wedge pillow high up the thigh that was on the mattress (so jamming it between leg and mattress) and would stop just before the hip started so that a tiny little gap was created, therefore less hip was in contact with the bed. BUY HERE.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Yoga<\/strong> – I mean, it was my yoga instructor that bloody diagnosed me so I turned to more yoga at home in the later stages of pregnancy with the aim to strengthen and stretch out my hips. Cat\/cow pose was good but also a variation on this where with a neutral spine on all fours, you then sort of circle your bum down over and around your heels then back up to neutral. Both directions.<\/li>\n
  4. Osteopathy<\/strong> – I would sometimes hand my aches and pains over to someone else to try and help with. My local osteopath would do gentle stretches and massage on me to help support the hip joints and related muscles.<\/li>\n
  5. Heat packs and ice packs<\/strong> – inflammation responds well to cold compresses but heat is also good for pain. So I would alternate, some days heat and some days cold. I would use the ice packs (below) for about 10 mins at a time – then 10 mins off – over an hour before bed. For heat, I just used a few mini hot water bottles like these<\/a><\/strong> tucked into my knickers. BUY ICE PACKS HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  6. Magnesium foot soaks or baths<\/strong> – transdermal magnesium is perfectly safe during pregnancy and is known for its soothing and restorative qualities on our bodies, which for the most part are usually deficient in magnesium. I opted for regular baths or simple foot soaks (sitting on the sofa in front of a documentary or listening to a podcast), with my feet soaking in a warm bowl of water with magnesium flakes in. BUY HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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