During pregnancy, pregnant women can no longer sleep in their preferred sleeping position as they did before pregnancy. If they do not sleep in the correct position, it may have adverse effects on both the pregnant woman and the fetus. Recently, a pregnant woman at 15 weeks of pregnancy wanted to know if it is possible to sleep on the right side at 15 weeks of pregnancy?
Pregnant women enter the mid pregnancy stage from the 13th week of pregnancy. Generally, in the first half of the mid pregnancy stage, from the 13th to the 16th week, the uterus has not completely protruded from the pelvic cavity and may only have a slight bulge. Therefore, when sleeping, pregnant women can adopt two sleeping positions: supine and lateral. Therefore, at the 15th week of pregnancy, pregnant women only need to avoid sleeping on their stomach.
But in the second half of mid pregnancy, from 17 weeks to 28 weeks, as the fetus gradually grows and develops, the volume of the uterus continues to increase. The enlarged uterus will begin to compress the lower limb venous blood vessels of the pregnant woman, thereby affecting the blood flow rate and causing edema. At the same time, the enlarged uterus will rotate to the right, compressing the blood vessels that provide nutrients to the uterus, causing insufficient blood supply to the uterus and increasing the risk of fetal hypoxia.
So starting from the 17th week of pregnancy, pregnant women need to adjust their sleeping posture, and should mainly adopt a lateral sleeping position, especially a left lateral sleeping position. This can reduce the pressure on the lower limb veins, promote blood flow back to the lower limbs, and also reduce the right rotation of the uterus, relieve insufficient blood supply to the uterus, and avoid fetal hypoxia. Here, it should be reminded that although the left lateral sleeping position is dominant, some adjustments can be made during sleep, adopting alternating positions of left and right lateral sleeping to make sleep more comfortable.
