Do you still sleep on your Belly?

[mrzbaby]

I have a question....

I am a real belly sleeper and find myself waking up through the night on my belly ( belly with knee bent IYKWIM ). So I re-position and viola back on my belly again when I wake up next.
Tried a pillow to stop me but I seem to just face the other way when I wake up
I have an anterior placenta so I feel like I am completely squashing my little bub. I feel if I sleep on my back that the placenta will squas the bub and if I sleep on my belly it will get squashed by my body organs etc.

Bubs sometimes is completely kicking and going off when I do wake up! and I cant seem to sleep on my side as I end up on my belly again aaarrrrggghhhh !

Any suggestions?????
Thanks Em

[helle]

ping pong balls...
one sewn to the front of your shirt... the other to your back

[Fruit Tingles]

I slept on my tummy right through pregnancy, although towards the end I more slept on my side/belly with a triangle pillow to make it a bit more possible/comfortable.

Honestly, I wouldn't worry about it. If its comfortable to sleep like that, then go for it. Maybe ask at your next appointment, but I honestly can't say I have heard or read that its a bad position to sleep in when pregnant.

[TeniBear]

Being uncomfortable on my stomach was one of the first signs for me that I was pregnant. But like you, I'm a belly sleeper. I am not comfortable unless I'm on my belly if I'm sleeping (on my side is fine if I'm just laying down.) I sleep in odd positions too - it looks like I'm doing yoga in my sleep at times because I'll go into the "frog" kinda position and sleep with my legs underneath me. Which worked for a while. But now my belly's gotten a bit bigger and higher, that's uncomfortable too! The only way I've been able to sleep this past week is if I have all the pillows (so I have to wait til DH is out of bed before I can steal his) and have them doubled up and propping my upper body into almost an upright position with my belly hanging loose and only my legs on the bed. If DH is in the bed, I've been using him as an extra pillow Though I still can't sleep properly with him in the bed, it takes some pressure off. He's getting annoyed that he keeps waking up with me snoring half on top of him

[rhyb]

I still sleep on my belly

[TeniBear]

I still sleep on my belly

Now that's just unfair! Here I am, at seventeen weeks, never able to get properly comfortable with one bub in me, and you can still sleep on your tummy when you're nearly ready to pop three out?!? You're so mean, rubbing that in!

(as always, I'm afraid that may be taken seriously - all said in jest and love, of course!)

[human bean]

I'm a belly sleeper too, always with my top leg/knee bent forward so not completely flat on my belly but almost iykwim

I can still manage it, but the last few nights the spud has woken me up on and off all night kicking up a real storm, so I think my belly sleeping nights are numbered...... It stops as soon as I change positions..... then I get woken again to find I've rolled onto my tummy and the kicking has started up again.

Thinking of trying a body pillow so I can still bend my knee over but it might stop me rolling completely onto my belly....

Good luck!

[rhyb]

Im far from comfy but I cant sleep any other way (if that makes sense)

[TeniBear]

No, I completely understand - Although it's uncomfortable, I can only sleep on my stomach. Or on top of DH

[CinderToriella]

No i havent sleept on my belly for ages now, i sleep with a body pillow i love it i curl up with it and then if im on my side i can half lay on the body pillow which cushions m y belly

[DaintreeDream]

I'm a belly sleeper too, always with my top leg/knee bent forward so not completely flat on my belly but almost iykwim

^ Yep thats me!

I slept on my belly till 7 months with DD1 then moved to the above position. This time I am pretty much the same.

[rufalina]

I long to sleep on my tummy, but from about 12 weeks it got uncomfortable and have been forced onto my side.... now it is a night time shuffle with pillows... Enjoy your tummy sleeping while you can!!

[Indadhanu]

I used to just sleep however I was comfy, as even that was a challenge from about 20 weeks!!

[mollycat]

I tend to sleep 3/4 on my belly, I have a pillow tucked between my knees, and use a triangle pillow which is sort of under my head and around under my bump. I do find I'm tossing and turning all night trying to get comfortable.

[Linzy]

Oh how I miss belly sleeping, I managed it up until 14 weeks and then it got too uncomfortable :/

And now sometimes sleeping on my back I feel like I'm being suffocated by my own body, and the pillow curling up around the sides of my head makes me feel like I'm being eaten by a huge, squishy clam.

So now it's side/belly with one leg raised

[Tiff+2]

I was still sleeping on my belly up until this week, now I am slighly turned to the side only cuz it was feeling a bit weird with my belly getting big. I am a BIG belly sleeper and am trying to stay on my belly for as long as possible as I wont be back on my belly until I finish BF as my boobies get so big and full!
As long as you're comfy, thats all that matters!

[mrzbaby]

Thanks Ladies,
I tired the body pillow. I do love it but DH says its a pain when I change sides and take it with me lol!!

I was reading that if you sleep on our back it can slow the blood flow to the placenta, so thats why I was stressing as my bub is squished between my placenta at the front and my internals inside.

I might try a triangle pillow. I use one to B'feed and think there great for that.

I am doing the belly with knee bent sleep too.


Anyone having really bizarre dreams??

[Linzy]

I have had a few dreams lately about DH running off with another woman but have read somewhere that it is quite normal to dream about that kind of thing when you're pregnant. As you get bigger and more out of shape you fear your partner isn't as attracted to you anymore and that's apparently why you dream about him running off with some other woman. Although DH is loving my bigger boobies at the moment hahaha until he has to fight bub for them in March!

I have had alot of dreams with young girls or older women in them (like my Nonna) and from what I've read it's quite normal too.

And lots of sexy dreams usually involving impossible acts or things we would never do or have never done..very odd lol

Oh! And I also had the most bizarre one where I was infested with 4 kinds of intestinal worms..I have NO idea what that one meant. I have a phobia of worms, snakes, caterpillars, millipedes, CENTIPEDES! So I woke up feeling very ill indeed!