Sleep during pregnancy can be difficult.
Sleeping on wedge pillow while pregnant.
Full body and wedge pillows in particular are a pregnant woman s best friend.
The wedge shaped pillow allows you to prop your torso up while sitting or sleeping or you can use them under a pregnant belly.
Although your ob gyn may recommend sleeping on.
A memory foam wedge pillow helps make sleeping while pregnant easier.
In the first trimester emotions over a new pregnancy frequent waking at night to visit the bathroom and increased daytime sleepiness can all effect sleep quality.
Triangular and round are two shapes that pregnancy wedge pillows are available in.
Pregnancy wedge pillows are the smallest maternity sleeping pillows available.
You don t like sleeping on your side.
Continue using a pregnancy pillow for support.
It s best to make sure you re sleeping on your side by the halfway point around 20 weeks to take the weight off your spine and a pregnancy pillow will help with that.
Experiment with other positions and pillows too.
While they do not target the whole body they are a good way of targeting specific areas that need to be propped up.
Try putting a pillow or wedge under your belly behind your back and between your legs while you re lying on your side.
Otherwise try sleeping in a recliner or other comfy armchair if you have one in a semi upright position.
If you re looking for a pregnancy pillow that takes up little to no space in your bed while still providing you with a more comfortable and supportive slumber the boppy wedge might be right for you.
These are nice for those that get too hot or too cold while they sleep because you can place a heating pad or cooling pack between you and the wedge.
If you find them a bit cumbersome with your growing belly investigate wedge pillows.
Typically your bump or back.
You can stick them under your belly and behind your back to keep.
Read more about pregnancy sleep basics.
A pregnancy wedge pillow can reduce pregnancy insomnia.
This will allow you to tilt toward your stomach or your back or alternate between the two.
You can use it wherever you need support your bump your back between your legs.
A few tips to help you sleep better.
That said you can start.
To use it slip the wedge under your belly to relieve the weight of your bump or tuck it behind you to ensure you don t roll over flat onto your back overnight.
