‘Sleep During Pregnancy’

Foods can Affect Your Sleep When Pregnant

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

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:

Foods can Affect Your Sleep When Pregnant

“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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Causes of Sleep Disturbance

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Sleep Disturbance
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
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Sleep During Pregnancy

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Sleep During Pregnancy
If you are one of the many women who have been upset because his dream of her pregnancy, then we suggest some tips that will alleviate this problem:

Women with insomnia-Lie on your side with knees bent to rest.

  1. Keep good habits to avoid back pain: used shoes with heels half, placed in the lumbar cushions to sit, sleep on a firm mattress, avoid lifting from the floor, apply localized heat in the affected area, do exercises strengthen the abdominal and back.
  2. She squeezes his foot against the wall or get up on you leg cramps.
  3. If the disorder is caused by an altered mental state, comes to childbirth preparation classes or talk to a specialist.
  4. Do not take any medication for sleep, especially if you have not consulted a specialist.
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