I'm 22 weeks pregnant (i have a bit of a baby belly-I have to wear maternity clothes) but I still sleep on my stomach. I wake up sleeping on my stomach ALL the time. I don't feel uncomfortable sleeping on my stomach, but I HEARD it was not good. I sleep on my back and stomach mostly cause I don't feel too comfortable on my sides. Is this bad for the stage of pregnancy I am in. Could someone help with this?
2007-03-05 05:04:58 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
As you get heavier, you should try not to sleep on your back because the weight of the baby compress the arteries leading to the womb and can deprive the baby of oxygen and it will also comress the veins. As for sleeping on your stomach, you shouldn't for obvious reasons, it could harm the baby as you get bigger if you continue to sleep on your stomach, but you will also start becoming uncomfortable on your stomach as you get bigger, it would be like sleeping on a ball. You should prop yourself with pillows. For me a soft body pillow and another pillow for my back would help me to stay on my side since I am also a back sleeper. Here is a link that tells you about sleeping positions recommended by doctors while pregnant.
http://kidshealth.org/parent/pregnancy_newborn/pregnancy/sleep_during_pregnancy.html
2007-03-05 05:10:00 · answer #1 · answered by MRod 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You're fine. The day it is uncomfortable for you to sleep on your belly (and oh, that day will come), stop doing it.
It won't hurt your baby, he or she is nice and padded in there.
I really don't think you should worry (my doctor always told me not to), but you could try propping your body in a way that kind of keeps you from rolling over (use pillows to kind of wedge yourself into another position.)
While sleeping on your belly won't hurt the kid, there are some suggestions that sleeping on your back can do something, but I can't remember what... I think it had to do with blood flow.
Anyway, don't worry, sleep in any way you can and still be comfortable... sleeping in any position will be a thing of the past soon enough.
2007-03-05 05:13:03 · answer #2 · answered by CrazyChick 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I So hear ya! i had always slept on my stomach and i did still do it during pregnancy and i feel bad about it, so i would use a pillow as an anchor sorta under my stomach sleeping sideways and it worked beautifully. If i wanted to sleep on my stomach the pillow reminded me not to roll on to my stomach because it was in the way. Good luck.
2007-03-05 05:09:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have never heard you couldn't sleep on your stomach just not on your back. I slept on my side more toward my stomach almost all the way through my pregnancy. When you get further along your body will tell you if it's not ok to sleep on your tummy cause it will not feel right.
2007-03-05 05:10:32 · answer #4 · answered by meme142 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a stomach sleeper and it was hell when I was pregnant that I couldnt and sleeping on my back was painful because of the weight. I put a pillow on my belly to keep me from rollling on my stomach and a pillow on my back for the same reason so a side sleeper I became until after the birth!
2007-03-05 05:09:49 · answer #5 · answered by Countess Bathory 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well, the worst position is your back because it compresses your superior vena cava (major vein going to your heart), and makes breathing very difficult.
the only reason that experts suggest not to sleep on your stomach is purely out of discomfort. you can't "squish" or hurt the baby by sleeping on your stomach. but if you are really freaked out, or just want to ease into sleeping on your side, try laying your stomach, and proping a leg up on a pillow, making your body look like a lower-cased "h." i do this, and it is so comfortable.
2007-03-05 05:38:35 · answer #6 · answered by Just a girl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you don't want to do this anymore take some pillows and place them around you so it makes it more difficult to roll. I think that if sleeping on your stomach isn't uncomfortable it shouldn't be a big problem but it should be avoided.
2007-03-05 05:10:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i slept on mine for both my preganacy.... I slept on it the whole 9months with both. i cant sleep any other way. both my kids were healthy at birth. i think it would less healthy for the baby if u didnt sleep at all. if u really feel u hurting ur baby talk to ur doctor. good luck
2007-03-05 05:09:34 · answer #8 · answered by kitttkat2001 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
HEY I HAD THE SAME PROBLEM I COULDNT GO TO SLEEP UNLESS I WAS ON MY STOMACH AND I ASKED MY MOM THE SAME THING AND SHE TO ME WOULD YOU WANT SOMEONE LAYING ON YOU LOL YOU JUST HAVE TO GET IN THE HABBIT OF LAYING ON YOU SIDE
2007-03-05 05:13:30 · answer #9 · answered by IT WASNT ME 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i slept on my stomach for awhile to until i got big my doctor told me it was alright until it started to hurt then she told me to switch to my sides....they say laying on ur back puts a strain on the baby to
2007-03-05 05:09:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋