"Getting enough sleep is very important to pregnancy.'The best sleeping position in pregnancy is on your left side.’ "Research suggests that pregnant women who are not getting enough sleep - less than 5 or 6 hours of sleep a night - probably are at increased risk for things like gestational diabetes, and potentially for things like preeclampsia," Pien said. In fact, it might be better for you not getting enough sleep may be much worse for pregnancy outcomes than the slight risk of IVC compression when lying on your right flank. If you have an otherwise healthy pregnancy and absolutely can't sleep on your left, rolling over to the right is probably nothing to worry about, Pien said. "If there's a reason somebody is sleeping on their right because they're more uncomfortable sleeping on their left, I don't think there's a reason not to do it." "I don't think there's clear evidence that sleeping on your right is worse than sleeping on your left," Pien said. One study of 155 women, published in the journal The BMJ in 2011, did find a slightly increased risk of stillbirth in women who went to bed on their right rather than their left the night before they miscarried, but these results have not yet been repeated. So, what - if anything - is wrong with sleeping on the right? That's hard to say, as there haven't been many studies specifically comparing left- and right-side sleeping during pregnancy. It is, as Pien put it, "a relatively easy, cost-free intervention" that can potentially prevent some very negative pregnancy outcomes. These alarming trends have been repeated often enough that most doctors don't hesitate to recommend that pregnant women avoid sleeping in the supine position. One limitation to keep in mind for studies like these - where people are asked to recall what they did in the past - is something called "recall bias." With recall bias, women who had a bad outcome, such as a stillbirth, are more likely than women with a healthy pregnancy to rack their brains for anything they may have done to cause it.
Another study, published in the journal PLOS One in 2017, found supine sleeping was associated with a 3.7 times higher risk of stillbirth than is found overall.
Most recently, a study published earlier this year in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology found that women who had a stillbirth after 28 weeks gestation were 2.3 times as likely to have slept on their backs the night before the stillbirth than women with a healthy continuing pregnancy. The evidence for this connection is mounting. "A number of studies have suggested that sleeping on one's back during late pregnancy may be associated with a higher risk for stillbirth," Pien said. When conditions like these are coupled with the reduced blood flow that comes from supine sleeping, the effects could magnify each other in a dangerous way. (Mom's blood carries oxygen to the baby.) Most healthy women and fetuses should be able to compensate for a slight reduction in cardiac output, Pien said, but IVC compression can become a bigger risk for pregnant women who already have blood pressure problems or breathing complications.įor example, pregnant women with asthma or sleep apnea (a condition in which breathing repeatedly starts and stops at night) may already have trouble delivering the optimal amount of oxygen to their bodies or their babies. Why is this compression bad? Less blood being pumped into the heart means less blood being pumped out of the heart - and that means a drop in blood pressure for mom, and a drop in blood oxygen content for both mom and baby.
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