Pregnancy: it is Better to Avoid Sleeping on the back for the Future Baby

Pregnant women spend 25% of their sleep time on their backs. A position that can increase the risk of stillbirths and low birth weight.

Researchers at the School of Nursing and Midwifery in Adelaide, Australia, studied the sleeping status of pregnant women and assessed the value of reducing sleep time on the back for the health of the expectant mother and the fetus.

Beneficial effects

Thanks to a specific device worn by pregnant women, they have reduced their sleeping time on their backs by just over 48 minutes. This reduction in sleep time on the back, without compromising the quality of sleep, allowed researchers to show the improvement of certain parameters such as an increase in maternal oxygen saturation, a decrease in the threshold of desaturation and a reduction of slowdowns. heart rate of the fetus.