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I just thought I'd let you all know THAT I CAN SLEEP ON MY STOMACH AGAIN!!! Now, if only the baby would just sleep in order to allow that to happen on a more often basis...
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Its the little things you miss when being pregnant and they seem like such big things when you get them back. YAY!
Wife to NSG out of training, mom to 2, 10 & 8, and a beagle with wings. -
That is the best! And I bet you don't have to pee every 45 minutes around the clock!Comment
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Jealous!
Married to a hematopathologist seven years out of training.
Raising three girls, 11, 9, and 2.
“That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician KingComment
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Normally I sleep on my right side. Even 8 months later, I fall asleep faster on my left...KrisComment
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I used to sleep on my left side every night. Now my hip joints are killing me, and I would love nothing better than to sleep on my back... How's that for irony?
Laurie
My team: DH (anesthesiologist), DS (9), DD (8)Comment
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I'm a side sleeper too but right now its not much fun, I have to turn over I don't even know how many times in a night to relieve the pressure on my hips. I'm SO ready to be done.
Wife to NSG out of training, mom to 2, 10 & 8, and a beagle with wings.Comment
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In case this is helpful to anyone, one thing I did last pregnancy is keep extra pillows next to the bed, and when I woke up with hurting hips, I would pile a total of four pillows under my head and shoulders/back and sleep like that for a couple of hours. I was at maybe the angle of incline of being in a recliner chair. So I could still breathe (!) but having both hips parallel to the mattress for a couple of hours would sort of realign everything.Married to a hematopathologist seven years out of training.
Raising three girls, 11, 9, and 2.
“That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician KingComment
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You know, everything I've read and everyone has told me that you are supposed to sleep on your left side when pregnant. I haven't been able to do it. I get the worst heartburn and nausea when I'm on my left and can only get comfortable on my right with about 3 pillows under my head and shoulders.Wife and #1 Fan of Attending Adult & Geriatric Psychiatrist.Comment
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Do people really do that? I kind of assumed that was one of those pieces of advice everyone basically ignores, because I definitely can't sleep on only one side. I feel like I'm going to get bedsores or something. And like all the fluid in my body is pooling up on the one side. Too uncomfortable. It's hard enough only having two sides to choose from with back- and stomach-lying out of commission, no way could I cut it down to left side only.
However, I do think of left side as first choice, so that if I'm not feeling well and need to lie down for a minute or something, I'll lie on my left.Married to a hematopathologist seven years out of training.
Raising three girls, 11, 9, and 2.
“That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician KingComment
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I slept on my left and right sides equally. I felt like I was going to get bed sores, too! How funny.
I truly felt with the c-section that I got the short end of the stick as far as returning to sleeping on my belly after M was born. 5 weeks later, and my incision almost completely healed, it's like heaven!
Hang in there, ladies! You'll get here soon!
(I miss the teeny tiny newborn days.... Might actually do this again. Am I nuts?)married to an anesthesia attendingComment
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I've only heard that laying on your left side is recommended for getting contractions to stop not exclusively for sleeping. I too would be in considerable pain if I could only sleep on one side. I flip back and forth between the two all night.
You're not nuts alison - once you've been through it and get past all the fears I think its normal to possibly want to do it again
Wife to NSG out of training, mom to 2, 10 & 8, and a beagle with wings.Comment
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I too am a belly sleeper though after 2 deliveries - now I love to sleep on my left side...with a pillow between my legs. Oh how times have changed.
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The past month or so has brought on extreme back pain while sleeping. I sleep on either side, but it seems that if I'm on my left side, my lower right back starts hurting and vice versa for the right side. Ugh. Half the time I wake up on my back with my carefully placed propping pillows on the floor or on top of DH. Normally, I am a side sleeper, but this back pain is really getting annoying. Funny how I don't have back pain during the day...only while lying on my side.
How do people who are pregnant with multiples do it? Must be misery!Wife to a PGY-7 Interventional Cardiology Fellow, Mom to two. DS(7) and DD(3).Comment
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What about the couch? I hate to encourage sleeping away from spouse but from 30 weeks till I delivered at 37, the best place I slept was the couch b/c it would conform to my lower back which killed me to. It was not as hard as a mattress and had more "give".Comment
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