Can a woman sleep on her stomach during menstruation, during pregnancy, breastfeeding, after birth and cesarean section?

Can a woman sleep on her stomach when she is pregnant, or when menstrual? Is it not harmful? We'll try to answer all the questions in this article.

Each person has his own favorite posture to sleep: some like to sleep on his stomach, others - on his back, and still others on his side.

Can a woman sleep on her stomach?

A woman can sleep on her stomach sometimes

You can always sleep on your stomach not only for women, but for men you can not - all doctors are convinced of this. And every specialist has his own arguments:

• Sometimes you need to sleep on your stomach and even useful - consider gastroenterologists , for example, with flatulence. In this position, there is relief for the body.
• Sexologists believe that a woman can not sleep on her stomach on the stomach , because her chest and internal organs are squeezed in a dream, and this affects the woman's sexuality badly.
• Cosmetologists are also strongly against sleep on the stomach .In this position, the face and chest are wrinkled, and even the young woman has mild wrinkles, which over time, if the sleep position does not change, turn into deep wrinkles. And if you roll your face to the side while you sleep, then, over time, a deep crease from the nose to the lips appears on this side, then it turns into a wrinkle.
• Doctors-trauma doctors do not recommend sleeping on the stomach to those women who have a curvature of the spine.

Note .It is useful to sleep on your side, first on one, and then on the other. Sleep on the left side improves digestion, accumulates more energy, a person quickly warms up if cold. The sleep on the right side of the promotes rapid relaxation.

Can I sleep on my stomach during menstruation?

A woman can sleep on the stomach during a period of time during the period of the month.

. During the monthly , to protect the bed linen from leaks, experts advise putting on 2 pairs of panties, putting 2 pads: one in front and one in the back so that they touch the middle, lie onstomach and so sleep .

Can I sleep on my stomach in the early stages of pregnancy?

A woman can sleep on the abdomen at an early pregnancy can

In pregnancy, in the early term( up to 3 months), sometimes you can sleep on the abdomen , while the uterus has not greatly increased, and hidden behind the pubic bone, which the child fully protects.

But some gynecologists are still categorical, and do not advise sleeping on the stomach of at all, in order not to get used, as on later terms you will have to give up sleeping on your stomach.

Can I sleep on my belly during late pregnancy?

A woman can not sleep on her belly during late pregnancy

In the late pregnancy, you can not absolutely sleep on your stomach for various reasons:

• You can put your weight on the child , which is very dangerous.
• You can during sleep on your stomach to suppress the swollen breasts , painful at any touch.
• You can use the increasing weight of to squeeze the hollow vein , which runs from the abdomen to the heart, and this is fraught with deterioration of well-being, increased heart rate, dizziness and lack of oxygen in the blood.

Note .Pregnant women need to sleep on their sides, especially on the left, thus relieving pressure on the vena cava. If you sleep on your right side, then the load is removed from the kidneys.

Can I sleep on my stomach after giving birth?

A woman can sleep on the abdomen after childbirth can

• After the birth of , all the organs undergoing changes are restored: , the external genitalia, the vagina and especially the uterus are reduced, which increased during pregnancy 500 times or more.
• After the removal of the placenta, the uterus weighs about 1 kg, after 10 days it is close to 500 g, and only after 2 months the usual form is 50 g .
• All the time, while the uterus is contracting, discharge from it with blood.
  In order for the uterus to shrink well, and there was no stagnation, the after the birth of a woman needs to lie down and sleep on the belly of the .On the advice of doctors, you can lie on your stomach from the first day after giving birth.
• Lying on the abdomen is a kind of massage of that part of the uterus that attaches to the abdominal cavity. Sleep on your belly to a woman you can as much as comfortable, though all night.
• And those women who do not like to sleep on the stomach , doctors advise, for 15-20 minutes every day to lie on your stomach.
• 2-3 days after birth the woman has breast milk. Breasts can be poured with milk, and then lying on your stomach will be uncomfortable and painful. Until lactation is restored, and milk will be produced as much as the baby needs, lying on the stomach should be stopped.

Can I sleep on my stomach after a cesarean?

A woman can sleep on her stomach after caesarean section, but in order not to hurt, it is necessary to wear a post-partum bandage

• . At first glance, it seems that after cesarean section it is impossible to lie down on the stomach, because there are stitches that can disperse. But this is not so.
• Some gynecologists advise after cesarean to sleep only on the abdomen, so strengthen the abdominal muscles .And who can not sleep on the belly of , the is recommended to lie for 2 hours a day, not less.
• And to not hurt to lie on the stomach, a woman needs to wear a post-partum bandage, and it will be much easier to walk and lie down. And about the joints you do not need to worry, they will not disperse, can not be done only by sudden movements.

Can I sleep on my stomach while breastfeeding?

A woman can sleep on her belly while breastfeeding, until lactation has improved, can not

When breastfeeding is adjusted, and milk will come as much as the baby needs, sometimes you can sleep on your stomach, but without a bra so as not to pass the milk ducts.

Note .You can not sleep on your belly to young mothers constantly, especially full-breasted, since breast milk stagnation may occur.

Can I sleep on my stomach after laparoscopy and appendicitis?

A woman can sleep on her stomach after laparoscopy and appendicitis can

• Laparoscopy - a modern form of a small operation on the internal organs of the , is carried out through 2 holes( 0.5-1.5 cm) punctured in the abdomen under general anesthesia.
• After laparoscopy, patients can be discharged on the same day. Further recovery patients are at home. Small seams on the incisions are removed in the same way as the sutures after the operation, for 7-14 days. You can sleep the same way as you usually used to sleep.
• After removal of appendicitis, the patient's medical staff brings them to the ward. Physicians help to lie on the patient's bed, on the left side, because after withdrawal of anesthesia, vomiting may open. After 12 hours you can climb, and then go to bed, as you used to sleep, and even on your right side.
• In order for the stitch to heal well, and there were no complications( hernia), after the operation it is necessary to wear a bandage.

On a woman's belly all the time you can not sleep, but you can not for long, excluding the time of pregnancy at a late date.

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