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Pregnancy bring a new meaning to the concept of beauty. It is a period of immense joy coupled with excitement. The physiological transition from being pregnant women to becoming a mother means an enormous change for each woman both physically and psychologically. It is a time when each and every system in the body is affected and the experience, though unfortunately not joyous for all. The overall prevalence rate of physiological lower leg oedema during pregnancy is 8.5%. Leg massage is an example of an intervention that can be used for specific conditions such as leg and foot oedema as it moves extravascular fluid without disturbing intravascular fluid. Materials and methods used: The quantitative research approach was used; the study was conducted at selected hospitals. The research design adopted for study was experimental two group pre-test post-test design to assess the effect of leg massage on physiological lower leg oedema among antenatal mothers admitted in antenatal ward of selected hospitals. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 60 antenatal mothers among that 30 samples were for control group, 30 samples for experimental group pre test given to both group and intervention was given to experimental group, for 4 days on 5th day post test was taken. Erin Oedema scale was used to assess the level of physiological lower leg oedema. Data was analysis by using descriptive and inferential statistical. Result: The mean post test score of control and experimental group shows that reduction in physiological lower leg oedema score, this is statistically significant as evidence from p= <0.0001 at 0.005 level. Conclusion: The findings of this study leg massage was effective in reducing physiological lower leg oedema among antenatal mothers.