How A Full Body Maternity Pillow Can Help You Sleep During Pregnancy

For years pregnant women have been told to sleep on their sides. Easier said then done. Some women find this position uncomfortable or manage to fall asleep on their side only to wake up on their backs. But a full body maternity pillow can not only help you sleep like a baby during pregnancy, it helps you to sleep in the correct side sleeping position.

Why does an expectant mother need to sleep on her side? Their actually are a number of reasons why the side sleeping position is healthiest during pregnancy. It mostly has to do with keeping the weight of the uterus and growing bay off of your spine and organs.

When you sleep on your back during pregnancy the full weight of the uterus rests on the spine. This leads to back aches and cramps. More dangerously is the full weight of the baby resting on the inferior vena cava. This large blood vessel is responsible for carrying blood throughout the lower part of the body. With the weight of the baby on this large vein blood and nutrient flow to the placenta is compromised.

Doctors specifically recommend that pregnant women sleep on their left side. Why is this? Sleeping on your left side keeps the weight of your baby off of internal organs. The liver, for example, is on the right side of the body, so sleeping on your left side shifts the weight of the baby off of it.

So how can a full body maternity pillow help? These large pillows are specifically designed to meet the sleeping needs of pregnant women. They are contoured in such a way to help support the growing tummy and help to position and offer support to keep the expectant mother in the side sleeping position that is healthiest for her and her baby.

Even better a maternity pillow cradles the body in cool and cozy comfort helping the expectant mother to sleep like a baby. So not only does a full body maternity pillow promote the proper sleeping position, it also can help pregnant women to sleep more comfortably.

by Just Being Myself