Favorite sleeping position?

AJC&Maggie · April 2014

Ugh, 29weeks and sleeping is getting more challenging by the day.
Any tips?
Right now I just flail around like a beached whale with lots of pillows.

sasky · April 2014

I'm still ok on either side right now. But I was always a side sleeper so that's comfortable for me anyway. Unfortunately I have to switch sides often to avoid hip pain, and the switching is the most painful part. There's a lot of grunting involved.

I do have a full body pillow that I'll sometimes put under my belly to take the weight off, and between my legs. But with all the switching sides it tends to get tangled up so I don't use it every night.

Toward the end of my pregnancy with my singleton I basically had a big nest of pillows that surrounded me. DH barely had any room (wahh!).

Hope you find something that works for you!

BeesKnees181 · April 2014

31 weeks and it is becoming impossible...I do have a snoogle pregnancy pillow that I position so I can sleep on my left side with that the pillow running in front of me so I can straddle it and take some pressure off of my hips. I also place two pillow behind me against my back. Lately, I have had to add more pillows to the set-up since the pressure on my ribs and chest and heartburn have intensified over the past 2 weeks or so. I find a hot bath with lavender oil helps me to sleep a bit more soundly...well for longer than 40 minutes at a time...Good luck and hang in there!

shanaynerz · April 2014

I'm not as far along as you (23w4d), but I sleep on both sides. I was always a tummy sleeper, but that ended a long time ago. I use a Snoogle and that helps. I cuddle up with it and can kinda lay on my tummy. Do you have a body pillow of some sort?

KatieGummow · April 2014

I tend to switch from bed to couch to guest bed and repeat. I used to prop a pillow behind my back and slightly lay on my back to help rotate off my hips and one under my belly to roll forward once that started to hurt. I can't do that now (36+4) because my belly will rip off my body, so now it is Benadryl, right side, left side, pillow between my legs.

legaleagles · April 2014

I have been sleeping propped up on an incline. I am a back sleeper and my arms/hands get numb and carpal tunnel flares if I'm on my side so about a million pillows under my back, neck, arms, knees. Pretty much upright.

Sindorella · April 2014

None of them, they are all terrible. Beached whale flailing describes what goes on in my bed at night, too. I even had one of the couch cushions from the back of my couch in bed with me to prop me up for a week because of the reflux but I can't turn over by way of my back and it was impossible to do on my belly with that giant cushion there so I didn't use it last night and just prayed I wouldn't wake up choking on acid. lol.

Pregnancy is SEXY.

Odebdo · April 2014

Sleeping has been awful for me as I was a 100% stomach sleeper and that ended at like 12 weeks....

My snoogle pregnancy pillow has been a lifesaver...but I still toss and turn a lot, but it makes it easier to find a position to drift to sleep in.

legaleagles I did not know side sleeping is what caused the carpel tunnel flares...may have to try to stay on my back because my wrists have been killing me since I am on my side all the time!

Jenn06L80 · April 2014

I use a snoogle for one side, and then a body pillow for the other side. I also have 3 pillows for my head. I am positioned upright on my side. I sleep ok. The main problem I have is getting untangled from everything when I get up to pee, and then repositioning myself.

legaleagles · April 2014

Odebdo said:

Sleeping has been awful for me as I was a 100% stomach sleeper and that ended at like 12 weeks....

My snoogle pregnancy pillow has been a lifesaver...but I still toss and turn a lot, but it makes it easier to find a position to drift to sleep in.

legaleagles I did not know side sleeping is what caused the carpel tunnel flares...may have to try to stay on my back because my wrists have been killing me since I am on my side all the time!

Not sure if it does fore everyone, but it does for me. I prop my arms up on pillows as well so they're elevated since they also tend to swell at night - this keeps the fluid retention down a lot as well.

sarah_beth2005 · April 2014

I'm with @legaleagles - I sleep propped up at about a 45 degree incline, with about a half dozen pillows behind me. With carpal tunnel, it's the only position that is comfortable at night with the huge wrist sleep braces. I was always a tummy sleeper, and occasional back sleeper, so I've never been comfortable on my sides. I try to lay on my left side for about 20-30 minutes right before I get up in the morning, using either a snoogle (sometimes it works for me, sometimes it doesn't) or a pillow between my legs and a body pillow behind my back, a wedge under my belly, and another pillow to "hug" (since I can't seem to figure out what to do with my hands and arms when sleeping on my sides!).

lynnyrd80 · April 2014

ugh, I'm sleeping horribly already too. I just can't get comfortable. I have restless legs every night while I'm trying to fall asleep and I'm pretty sure that I'm getting carpel tunnel. I wake up with my hands asleep and they ache for a long time after that. I have a Boppy body pillow that I loved from my last pregnancy, but it isn't helping as much this time.

basil2 · April 2014

I'm back and forth between sides- pillow on one side and Clifford on the other (the big red dog- my son left him in the bed at some point and it's just the right size).

Re carpal tunnel- it's aggravated by bending the wrist (which compresses the nerve)- sleep position probably only relates if you're more likely to bend your wrist in certain postions- wrist splints really help a lot (I haven't had to break mine out yet, but had a terrible time with it in my first pregnancy).

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