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I had very bad hip pain (only at night) during my first pregnancy and in order to avoid getting it as badly this time around I ordered a memory foam mattress topper - a friend of mine said it was a lifesaver when she was pregnant.


And of course I now read lots of negative comments about memory foam being toxic (either the chemicals that help it behave like memory foam or the strong fire retardants used to keep it from combusting as it's highly flammable material). We won't ever let our kids sleep on it but would you use it during the second and third trimesters of your pregnancy?


I need to google a bit more and find some research backed articles about it (so far I've only seen strong pro and anti camps online) but it would be great to get some input from a community that seems to talk lot of sense about other topics as well :)


Any opinions welcome.... thanks in advance

It's actually a mattress topper / mattress pad that I put on top of my normal mattress (to save money) but yes I guess it's (almost) the same material as the tempur mattresses. Your children certainly don't seem to have been affected by it! ;)

intexasatthe moment Wrote:

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> I used to get agonising hip pain ,only at night

> ,Daniel at Crystal Palace Rd osteopaths sorted it

> out for me.

> Just a thought.



Thanks, if it comes back (I'm ok right now but only 17 weeks) I'll go see him - I'll try anything to be able to actually walk to the loo at night without having to do five minutes of stretching first!

We have a memory foam mattress, can't recall exactly when we got it, but it was def on the bed whilst I was pregnant with my youngest and made a massive difference to my hip and back pain. We co-slept a lot at the start too and she is a 15 month old picture of health and mischief now.


Molly

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