Treating Pregnancy Symptoms : Exercises for Sciatic Nerve Pain in Pregnancy

Sciatic nerve paint is common during pregnancy, as the uterus can put pressure on the lower spine, but a few simple stretching exercises can help relieve much of the discomfort. Practice these sciatica stretches a few times a day with advice from a certified nurse-midwife in this free video on pregnancy.

Expert: Michelle Collins
Bio: Michelle Collins has more than 20 years of experience in the field of maternal-child health, first as a labor, delivery and pediatric nurse, and currently as a certified nurse-midwife.
Filmmaker: Dimitri LaBarge

[IceQn]

Nice, calming video with easy to do moves...great for anyone. Thank you for taking the time to make this helpful information available to anyone for free.

[tokyo]

So glad I found this video I Had to deal with this pain both my butt and legs. It's started from the forth month of my pregnancy and have another 10 weeks to go. Again so grateful for this video.

[sleepygirll]

The first exercise literally just helped my leg!!!! Omg! Thank you for showing this!!!

[matina]

i wish i could do these agree the pain is unreal and i live with it 4 months!!! every day every minute its a tragedy! i have two months until my baby come to life! i feel like a hero!

[kellyanna]

I have bad sciatic pain in my buttocks, I am only 10 weeks pregnant, hoping this video will help it ease. Hopefully it goes before I get too big!

[Purplemuslimlina]

i am in so much pain my left glute hurts to sit on the toilet, to walk, and to came in to bed. my husband is my acting maid and nurse since this started yesterday. i love my baby boy but he needs an violation notice, thank God there is 3 more weeks to go. safe delivery for all women expecting in tbe summer months and beyond.

[ThisTornadoLoves]

Thank you so much! Now I feel like I can survive my last 13 weeks!

[KortneyVieweg]

This sounds great and all but the further along you get the less space you have to lean forward. Does anyone else have some ideas that worked for them?

[brandiegerlach]

I am 22 weeks pregnant and have been dealing with the Sciatic Nerve pain for a couple weeks. Nothing seems to help but ice packs. I get a sharp pain from the top of my left buttocks all the way down to my left foot.  It is worse in the morning. I will warn you. I did these stretches and WARNING!!! the one where you sit on the floor and have the bottoms of your feet touching and stretch forward is dangerous. I did this last night and it was all good until I lean back up and I had the most excruciating pain from the sciatic that I was stuck in not only the position but the pain. I couldn't stop the pain.  Luckily, my two daughters were home and they were able to move my leg and help me get out of the position. So PLEASE if you are pregnant definitely, do not do this alone. The stretch may help you, but just case, do not do this alone.

[biancastrydom]

wow iam 15 weeks pregnant and i have experienced this problem for a couple of weeks now i went to a doctor and he gave me medication and told me that its just the baby growing i didnt even know half of this but ill try the exercises hope i feel better still have a long way to go and cant be suffering like this for the next 5 months

[justingrabowski]

Thank you! My pregnant girlfriend and I found this very helpful! :)

[سبحاناللهوبحمده-ركن]

اللهم صل وسلم وبارك على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا..الله يشفي الجميع

[praysalvation]

The pain is like a knife that shoots through my right butt cheek when I take a step. It paralyzes me in place and sometimes all I can do is to flop down into the nearest chair and just sit there. The first sign of it, I can tell that it's going to be a rough day. But then it will just disappear. I don't deal with this daily but when it comes I want to cry. I have just about 5 more weeks until baby is here :( I will be stretching at my desk.

[TheBity]

11 weeks until my baby comes and the pain is killing me... thanks for this video.. I hope it helps

[leeannmaine]

Squatting with this Odin? No, im sorry... I'll be on the floor crying

[kush_gurl]

all of these made my pain worse ugh i could barley move

[vinentselva]

hello ladies, this is for u only. yeah pregnancy is another birth for all mothers. so u must be very carefull in that time.
so watch this video carefully and get nerve pain in pregnancy. thank u.

[alejandrosmama]

I read on the baby centre site that sciatica in pregnancy wasn't caused by the baby on a nerve its just something you would have developed pregnant or not or are they wrong? Anyway I'm 15 weeks pregnant and been suffering with this in my right butt cheek and leg for 3 weeks now :-(

[davidbuiting]

The sciences has proven that a person's body have the ability to deal with sciatica pain naturally, without having to use any kind of synthetic drugs, experience hurting surgery, as well as changing your diet.

[NadineJJones]

If sciatica is left without treatment, it can bring about serious health condition.