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While food and how it feel to each, is subjective, there are certain foods or habits that may be more appropriate at the time of going to bed, so let’s see what options may be helpful and which less so:

“It has been recommended intake of one cup of warm milk to fall asleep. This is because of the tryptophan present in the milk, which is a sleep-inducing substance. Other foods containing tryptophan are, bananas, oats, honey and poultry.

“If you’re thinking of an ideal snack for a nightcap when you opt for a bowl of warm milk with cereal, a yogurt with some biscuits or a slice of bread with cream cheese, any of these alternatives will also enhance your triptofeno blood. On the contrary, avoid consuming snakcs that are only carbohydrates and sugars, and that may adversely affect your sleep.

“Evita also go to bed hungry, you can be a distraction when having to sleep. Of course, this does not mean you eat too much at night: the two ends will keep you away from the arms of Morpheus.

“Stay well outside the high-fat foods, as if that were not enough excess fat can make about your health, and your silhouette, some evidence suggests it also may be negative to maintain a proper sleeping pattern.

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Often pregnant is incompatible with sleep. In 1997 the American Association of Sleep Disorders, proposed the existence of a new clinical entity as pregnancy associated with sleep disorders. Although most pregnant women suffer some recognized sleep problem, there is little research to determine the exact causes and consequences of this problem for both the pregnant and the future baby.

The causes of these sleep disorders appear to be the hormonal changes that occur during pregnancy. Studies have shown that increased estrogen and progesterone decreases in deep sleep, which is what allows us to rest. Has also been observed that pregnant women who slept poorly had higher levels of cortisol and melatonin lower than usual.

Women with insomnia almost all pregnant women end up with sleep disorders to a greater or lesser extent. Although a direct cause of this problem is hormonal changes that occur in the mother during the months of gestation, the truth is that there are many factors that can explain the disorder. The following are the most significant:

• Increased abdominal size, which prevents finding a comfortable position and creates great difficulty moving in bed.
• Excessive fetal movements.
• Increase the frequency with which women should get up to urinate.
• Feeling dizzy when placed face up on the bed. This occurs because the weight of the uterus and fetus when the mother is lying down, falling on the large veins leading to the heart, leading to transient loss of irrigation.
• Back pain during late pregnancy.
• Cramps and tingling in the legs.
• Worry and stress of the mother by the very fact of pregnancy