Sleeping on your left side also takes the pressure off your liver and your kidneys. This means more room to function properly, helping with swelling issues in your hands, ankles, and feet. That review showed equal safety with sleeping on the left and right sides.
You may have heard that your sleep side indicates the sex of your baby. This is just an urban legend. There are no studies to suggest that sleep position has any correlation to the sex of your baby. Sleeping in any position is generally fine early on.
But if you want to get into the habit of favoring your side, try simply slipping a pillow between your legs. This may ease discomfort in your hips and lower body. If yours is too soft, you might consider slipping a board between your mattress and box spring. You may also want to look into pregnancy pillows. They come in U or C shapes and wrap around your entire body to help with side sleeping. You position the pillow so that it runs along your back and then hug the front while simultaneously slipping it between your knees.
Continue using a pregnancy pillow for support. If you find them a bit cumbersome with your growing belly, investigate wedge pillows. You can stick them under your belly and behind your back to keep from rolling. Wondering if you can sleep on your stomach during pregnancy? You sure can — at least for a while. Stomach sleeping is OK until you reach about weeks 16 to At that point, your bump may be growing a bit bigger, making this position less and less desirable.
The uterine walls and amniotic fluid protect your baby from being squished. To make this position more comfortable, you may consider purchasing a stomach sleeping pillow. Some are inflatable and some are more like a firm pillow with a large cutout for your belly.
Whatever one you choose, the idea is that you get some shut-eye on your stomach while giving your baby and you plenty of room to breathe. Related: How to kick insomnia in early pregnancy.
After that, you may have heard that studies link sleeping the whole night on your back to stillbirth. Before you get too worried, understand that the studies are small and there may be other factors like sleep apnea at play.
There's just so much of you. But can some sleeping positions be harmful for you and your baby? This is Dr. Kirtly Jones on The Scope. Jones: A recent British study suggested that women who sleep on their back in their third trimester of pregnancy are at increased risk of stillbirth. This shouldn't be complicated, but it is. And here in the studio to help us understand the strengths and weaknesses of this study are not one, but three specialists in high-risk pregnancy from the University of Utah, Dr.
Martha Monson, Dr. Lauren Theilen, and Dr. Karen Gibbins are here in the studio. Thanks for coming, all three of you. Does that mean you disagree? Jones: Well, this is good news. So you all agree that there's some problems here about either sleeping on your back or this study. So let's talk a little bit about that. I actually understand that the entire division, some 15 specialists in high-risk obstetrics have said, "Wait a minute, there's a problem with this study.
What is stillbirth? Theilen: This is Lauren Theilen, and we define stillbirth as the death of a fetus within the womb that happens at or after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Gibbins: In the United States, we currently estimate that stillbirth happens in about 1 of every pregnancies. So that comes out to about 26, stillbirths in a year. Jones: Well, then, what are the causes? I mean, are they all the same cause, or what's going on here? Monson: This is Martha Monson here, and there are multiple causes. We can go over that. So problems such as preterm labor and multiple gestations, so this would be like twins or a triplet pregnancy, and placental abruption, so that's when the placenta starts to separate from the uterus prematurely, are thought to cause about one in three stillbirths, especially those that occur before 24 weeks.
Other causes such as placental insufficiency, and this is when there's placental failure that leads to poor baby growth, is thought to be the cause in about one in four stillbirths, especially those that occur after 24 weeks.
Of course, there are birth defects or are genetic syndromes, and these are thought to cause about 1 in 10 stillbirths. Infections of the baby, the placenta, or a mother are thought to cause about 1 in 10 stillbirths. Jones: So that means about. Jones: Or fewer. Okay, so well, then, but the problem if any, if pregnant women sleeping on their back, how many people are we talking about who are sleeping on their back and how did they get this number?
Gibbins: So that's one of the problems with the way the study was conducted. The best way to find out what is happening during a pregnancy is to collect it when it is happening. However, that's very difficult. So stillbirth is a very rare occurrence, thankfully.
And so the way that these researchers collected this data is they asked women to recall how they were sleeping during their pregnancies. And sometimes they asked women to recall this multiple weeks after the stillbirth and the delivery had occurred. We do not endorse non-Cleveland Clinic products or services. You take your prenatal every evening like clockwork. Heck, who are we kidding? Someone else can do that one permanently! But how bad is it really?
Zanotti explains. Researchers in New Zealand found that there was a potential increased risk of stillbirth for women who slept the entire night on their back. But Dr. For instance, the studies looked at women who spent all night on their backs and never got up to go to the bathroom.
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