so now my back hurts when I wake up...

[cicely_m]

Any of you ladies have this problem already? In the morning, your lower back is achy? Short of spending $50 on one of those fancy snake pillows, how have you best coped with this annoyingness?

[guestmama9972]

Yes, my back hurts every morning when I wake up. I hobble out of bed like an old woman every single morning. I think it is the weight of my belly pulling down toward the bed as I lie on my side. I have tried putting a pillow there to support my belly but it hasn't helped. The pregnancy before this one I did try an expensive body pillow for pregnant moms and it did not help, either! I figure that I will just have to live with an aching back for a few more months!

[True Blue]

You need pillow support. I have the Snoogle, and it really helps. I find that if I sleep in it ALL night, I'm sore from being in the same position, but if I use it part of the night I feel better. Last pregnancy I mostly used a wedge pillow. There is one at Babies R Us that is a wedge for under your belly but also has another piece to put behind your back and support you there that works really well. Eventually, you really need something under your belly bc the weight of it pulls on your back when you lie down. If you got a wedge (or maybe a soft pillow) under your belly, something behind your back, and a pillow between your knees you will likely see some improvement. Mind you, I say "some" bc it won't all go away til the baby is born!

[GreenRose]

i have one of those pillow with the gap in the middle .. so, two pillows connected with cloth so they don't move.. it's good, but not helping my aching neck and shoulders.. that's where I'm suffering. don't know why. bigger boobs?? lying on shoulder all night?

[True Blue]

Probably lying on your shoulder all night...I would try using a thicker pillow than your used to or two pillows, or a contour pillow. I feel better sometimes when I use DH's contour pillow, I think it keeps me from crushing my shoulder!

[Steady101]

I sleep with at least 7 pillows and some nights I am good and some nights I still wake up with an ache somewhere.

[smokeylo]

Yes, I ache every morning and am having a harder and harder time finding a comfy sleeping position. Sides = hip/back ache, back = a lot of uterine pressure and feels like way more tension (although I can feel the baby better this way!), tummy = too much uterine pressure, like sleeping on a grapefruit. And I'm only 19w, . I need to start doing some yoga and getting some massages!

[cicely_m]

so if you just had one extra pillow, say, it would be better to put it on your tummy side, rather than your back side?

[True Blue]

I think you'd have to experiment with what works best for you...it would depend if you tend to lean more into your belly (so your belly rests on the bed while on your side) or if you lean back more. Also, you could change throughout the night...I find myself making adjustments.

[AlwaysByMySide]

I have just started having this problem too. I have one body pillow on each side, a regular pillow at my feet and two on the top, and still wake up a big ol' mess. I think a lot of my problem is that I'm normally a stomach sleeper, and I use the body pillows more to support my one knee that needs to be up on something.

I'm thinking of getting two featherbeds, sewing up some kind of "pillowcase" type thing for them, and sleeping on that. Except then I would probably never get out of bed!

[applecore]

Ugh. Me too. With each pregnancy I've had serious problems with my hips. I get unbearable sciatica- to the point where I feel like I'm really going to go crazy if the pain doesn't let up. I'm trained in medical massage/manual therapy, so I have done just about everything I can think of, but to no avail. Visited the chiro during the last one which helped, but I had to go 3x a week for it to work. I just can't afford it now because we moved away from the place I used to go to and got a discount. Icing helps a bit if I do it quite often, and I just got this nifty thing that covers my whole low back and sacrum. It has elastic straps that velcro and it wraps around my belly to keep the ice pack in place. So now I can ice while I'm still moving around. It was the best $10 I've spent in a long time!

[trizzle]

I make a pillow nest and move around within it...and I still limp out of bed each day..That shooting pain around the hips is the most intense...gonna try seeing a pregnancy-specializing physical therapist, so I will let you know how that goes and what her advice is. With you sister!

[Gunter]

i really liked my body pillow last time. it was only $10 and a great help even after ez was born. sleep is a bit restless but we ask for extra pillows when we stay in hotels. at our house, we had four pillows bwn the three of us and just shared. i am still sleeping on my belly some but flopping around from side to side most nights. i am really looking forward to chiro care and a decent massage wherever we end up next.

[Writerbird]

Snoogle fan, here. Before the baby, I slept on my stomach with no pillows. Now, of course, that's very uncomfortable. The snoogle's curly end is just right for my head, the middle part is flat enough to go under my belly enough to feel supported, and the end... is admittedly useless so I put a real pillow between my knees.

The only part that sucks is that we try not to use AC or heat unless we MUST. So at the beginning of the night I'm too hot for blankets, but by the wee hours it's pretty cold. Trying to wrestle me, the snoogle, and the other pillow under the blanket without opening my eyes, waking up, or waking up my mate is worse than trying to wrestle an alligator.