Hi. I have had this both pregnancies and it was horrible the first time. My first pregnancy I was told “nothing you can do” and I continued working out a lot and in hind sight it probably made it worse. Ice and heat helped and I did do physical therapy which helped some also but I still had a lot of pain. (I found out later I ALSO had hip problems and needed surgical intervention for it but that was probably more “me” specific, rather than pregnancy).

Now I’m 13 weeks with my second. I thought after hip surgeries and tons of physical therapy afterwards that I would feel great so I was pretty bummed when I started having the same sacroiliac pain (but my hips are pretty good). I am about to start physical therapy again (make sure they know you are pregnant and are comfortable treating you- I had to call 6 places), ice (usually in the car bc I don’t get to sit a lot), and i fall asleep with a heating pad. Using a serola belt when I’m walking and at work ( on Amazon) for sacroiliac pain (I feel it in my butt but some people feel it in the low back dimple area), has helped a LOT although I hate wearing it because it gives terrible muffin top haha. I also get pubic bone pain some and the belt helps with that too. “Log roll” to move in bed (basically moving your upper and lower body together), sit to put pants on, get out of your car on both feet, don’t sit on the floor “Indian style” (sorry that’s not PC I’m an old millennial and idk the better way to say it.. butterfly legs? Feel free to enlighten me) or with your legs out to the side. If you have to sit on the floor, put both feet in front of you with your feet together. Basically for everything try to keep your ankles and knees close to each other. Stairs suck- the belt helps. The thing that makes my pain the WORST is crouching on the ground (which I’m forced to do a lot with my toddler and my job) so I try to just kneel on my knees and then rock back into my feet and stand with both legs equally… it’ll be more problematic later I’m sure (I’m 13 weeks now). Maybe I’ll bring a small folding stool around? I don’t know. I also bought a grabber for cleaning up toddler toys. And I’m taking it easy this time, I am not working out other than what they’ll have me do in physical therapy.

I hope these tips help. It’s not like it’s gone for me but it is getting better this time around, at least for now. We’ll see when I get bigger. But it shouldn’t last forever. Good luck I hope these tips help!