So recently I've been having a lot of back pain during sleep and when waking up. Talking to my doctor about how I sleep she informed me that sleeping on my back (which I am a total back sleeper) isn't good to do since it can cause the baby to rest on my aorta causing decreased blood flow to the baby and to me but if I wake up on my back it's not a big deal just to do it as little as possible. On the left side is ideal but that can be painful to do all the time also. It actually hurts my shoulder and back to stay on the left side all night long. I've tried. She said to help with back pain to get a preggo pillow that goes behind me or to put a pillow at my back. I haven't found a preggo pillow that I love yet so I tried putting a pillow behind me. That didn't work out so I put 2 and then 3 and then 4. It worked ok but not great.
Then last night as Michael and I were watching Burn Notice before bed I had my back against him and it felt amazing. I got to him try out me sleeping back to back with him all night with him basically supporting me all night. It was amazing... for me. Not so much for him. He didn't get much sleep since I"m a furnace and he couldn't really move freely but I woke up with no back pain and fresh as a Daisy!!!
He says he'll keep doing it for me but I don't foresee that happening on his work nights unless he just gets used to it. I imagine he'll be making me get a preggo pillow pretty soon. lol
It's also getting hard for me to lift myself too. Hard to just scoot over. Michael says I'm like an overstuffed chicken. lol
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