Hip pain when sleeping

I have been sleeping on my sides as per recommendations but every night throughout the night I wake up multiple times because my hips feel like they’re bruised from laying on them. I have a pregnancy pillow and whilst it is comfortable I feel like it’s doing nothing?! Any recs would be great please

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Problem and I feel it triggers sciatica for me - following for recommendations

I have a heated sheet that I find dulls the pain

Try pillows of different sizes between your knees and ankles. You really want to get your hips aligned straight before going to sleep. I also then have one of the 1/2 moon type pillows that I can wedge under the top half/side of my hip and this hugely helps. Then if you are able to do some gentle yoga stretches, 10 mins a day I find that also helps me. I use Pregnancy and Postpartum TV on YouTube and she has good 10 mins yoga videos. I had this same issue with my first pregnancy and never got it to be better so ended up sleeping practically upright which resulted in terrible sleep but no hip pain. This pregnancy I'm doing a lot more to actively reduce the pain and most nights i get a 4+ hour stretch before any pain starts so then I just flip over and go on my other side which tends to only last 1ish hours before hurting

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