Once you find out about the pregnancy - intuitively you cease to sleep on his stomach, and right! But here's how to sleep better during the later stages: on the side, or can still be on the back? We understand!
pregnant not to be envied: to sleep on your stomach will have to forget even for 9 months. After birth, the breast is filled with milk, and mommy again not be able to sleep on his stomach 2-3 years old. But darling baby born - and there will be joyful trouble!
How can pregnant women sleep
- As for sleep during pregnancy, then you will have to sleep on your back or stomach. In the 3 trimester sleep on their backs is not recommended: this situation can harm the fetus.
- After 28 weeks, there is a rapid growth of the fetal baby, thereby greatly increasing the woman's abdomen. There is the so-called "inferior vena cava syndrome" - a compression of the pregnant uterus large venous vessel, walking along the spine. He appears just as the woman lies on her back (under the weight of the uterus leans back). This leads to impaired blood flow in the mother and fetus, insufficient oxygen supply to the heart and brain.
- The woman may appear shortness of breath, dizziness, weakness. And the child hypoxia will be expressed in violation of the heartbeat and locomotor activity. Even if the expectant mother does not feel discomfort while lying on his back, it does not mean that they do not feel the baby.
- Oxygen starvation during the later stages can cause growth retardation and fetal development and nerve damage. Leaning back, the uterus can disrupt operating functions close to the kidneys and colon.
- Sleep is considered optimal for the position on the left side. It promotes proper rest, relaxation of the spine, relieve tension on the internal organs and improve circulation.
On the back or on the side: how to sleep during pregnancy / istockphoto.com
To the baby in the tummy enough oxygen for the development of
That after or during sleep to restore proper breathing in the later stages will help equipment of different types of breathing. Thoracic and abdominal, superficial and deep, full, jog, rhythmic - that you teach in a school moms or yoga sessions for pregnant mothers.
- If you practice breathing exercises from the beginning of pregnancy, it allows the body to better cope with stress. Breathing with a delay helps to relieve pain during labor, reduces tension, relaxes the muscles of the abdominal and pelvic muscles, relieves neck opening.
- Held the following day. Starting with 5-10 minutes and extending the time to half an hour, but no more. When oxygen supersaturation can dizzy, pressure drop. For classes should not be contraindicated (interruption threat, bleeding).
- Optimize the performance of all internal systems and organs after sleep will help bathing, douche.
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