2010/11/26

Pregnant women to sleep -- how to sleep till dawn?

Belly pregnant moms of life, the burden of heavy exertion, fatigue, more sleep to restore strength to be sufficient to maintain health, ensuring the normal development of the fetus. Xiao Bian now for all the mothers who prepared the safety rules to be produced sleep, so sleep problems since disappeared, so the magic of life and health, the advent of strong!

For mothers, the good quality of sleep is very important.

Enough sleep at the mother good health, but also affect the physical condition of fetus. A survey shows that the month before labor less than 6 hours of sleep the night of pregnant women, childbirth than pregnant women who sleep more than 7 hours long; In addition, pregnant women sleep less than 6 hours of caesarean section more likely.

Pregnant women, the common causes of insomnia

(1) Hormones

Pregnant women are more sensitive to spiritual and psychological, tolerance to stress will be reduced, often depression and insomnia, which is a change in hormone levels caused. Affect the body's hormones during pregnancy is mainly estrogen and progesterone, pregnant women will make mood swings, premature baby Ambassador pressure, or there is vision, hearing and intelligence deficiencies. Therefore, the moderate pressure adjustment and considerate and caring family, for the stability of the mood of pregnant women is very important.

(2) changes in eating habits

Changes in diet during pregnancy can also affect their quality of sleep, a balanced diet is important. Emotional impact required to avoid foods such as coffee, tea, fried food, etc., especially saturated fatty acids in food will change the body's hormone secretion, resulting in a lot of discomfort. Pregnant women as long as 3 hours to eat something before going to sleep, in most cases can improve sleep quality. The mothers have to pay attention to their own "Zhumian food", before going to bed do not eat cold food and so on. "Zhumian food" formula: a staple food, a dairy, an egg, beans, fish.

(3) urinary frequency of sleep

Pregnant women, frequent urination often occurs. Early pregnancy may have half of the pregnant women, frequent urination, but at a later stage, nearly 80% of pregnant women troubled by frequent urination at night will get you on the run to a serious impact on quality of sleep. Most frequent urination is due to increased uterine pressure to the bladder, so that women there "to urinate." In addition, psychological factors or certain organs of the disease, such as emotional stress or bladder urethritis.

Secretions many women find themselves more or frequent urination, to think that is normal untreated, or worry about the health of medication may affect fetal development refused medical treatment, may eventually lead to miscarriage and other serious consequences. Therefore, pregnant women must also pay attention to whether there exist other infections such as colds, candida vaginitis. Lack of resistance may arise from the excessive burden on the immune system, emotional instability, excessive pressure is one of the reasons. In addition to psychological adjustment pressure, Bulletin boards should be taken to avoid irritating the best diet, excessive use of chemical drugs, inflammation, allergies, etc., which will increase the psychological discomfort, increased urinary frequency.

(4) food allergies

Allergies are more easily overlooked cause of the insomnia, especially for the allergic reaction can cause the immune system of the burden. Some people may know that eating certain foods will immediately itchy skin rash, of course, put the food out of the menu outside of the. However, there is a delayed allergic reaction known as anaphylaxis, is due to the long-term repeated intake of certain foods such as milk, dairy products, eggs, sesame and other food, the symptoms are not very clear, common are insomnia, anxiety, headache , muscle and joint aches. At this time women will have emotional tension and insomnia, this time paying particular attention to food choices.

(5) middle of the night easily cramps

To late pregnancy, cramps often occur in many Bulletin boards, which also affects sleep quality. The cramps are mostly concerned with the sleeping position, usually when the soles of the feet down more prone to cramps. In addition, it may be local blood circulation, blood pH related. Normal blood is in a slightly alkaline, if emotionally unstable, eating too much of sweets and meat, are easy to make the blood acidic, causing electrolyte imbalance, resulting in local muscle cramps.

If regular cramps during sleep, we must adjust the sleeping position, left lateral position as possible to sleep, and pay attention to the lower extremities warm. Also, eat more vegetables and fruits, eat less animal protein, refined starch (such as white bread, white rice, sweets, etc.), can reduce blood pH imbalance. In case of cramps, you can also ask family members to help heat and massage to ease the pain of cramps, early sleep.

In addition to these reasons, there are several pain during pregnancy, but also the factors that cause insomnia:

(1) headache: a small number of pregnant women after 6 months of pregnancy, there will be an increasingly severe headache, and some vomiting, to see things dimly; also have lower extremity edema, blood pressure, checking urine protein, This is what we often say that the performance of pregnancy-induced hypertension, medicine, also known as eclampsia.

(2) chest pain: chest pain occur during pregnancy, occurs in between the ribs, the pain location is not fixed, may be due to calcium deficiency causes some degree of pregnancy, or due to diaphragmatic elevation caused by expansion of the thorax.

(3) stomach: peristaltic muscles during pregnancy slow down the digestive organs, people with stomach discomfort fullness; Some pregnant women continue to return to acidic water and heartburn and do nothing, this is because pregnancy causes retrograde gastric motility, contents of stomach acid reflux cause, stimulate mucous membrane caused.

(4) low back pain: With the increase in the time of pregnancy, pregnant women, the body will feel heavy, standing or walking, the center of gravity forward in order to ensure a balance must be chest, sudden stomach, along with separate toe feet, so that the inevitable lordosis lumbar spine caused by excessive bending of the spine causing low back pain.

(5) abdominal pain: some women (especially women backward uterus) in early pregnancy feel pain in the pelvic region of a traction or a sense of falling. Lower abdominal pain during pregnancy if more violent, and vaginal bleeding, may be a sign of miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy, medical treatment must be rapid. Growing uterus into the pelvis, but also easy to cause the pubic symphysis or sacroiliac joint pain.

Pregnant women, poor sleep, avoid using hypnotic drugs

Insomnia sleep disorder that is the people's lives a common symptom, often rely on self-regulation to improve sleep, but also clothing, phenobarbital, chlordiazepoxide fire to hypnosis stability. Application of hypnotics is not too long, or will cause dependence and addiction, this feature has been known.

For pregnant women, more attention should be paid for a long time with the hypnotic hazards. It will make people not only produce dependence and addiction, but also to the fetus and infant after birth have soft baby syndrome, manifested as decreased muscle tone, low body temperature, difficulty breathing, sucking difficulties. These symptoms will be prone to cause fetal distress, developmental delay, and may cause the baby after birth, scleroderma, respiratory infections, very dangerous. Therefore, when pregnancy occurs, or poor sleep, sleeplessness, avoid the abuse of hypnotics, but should be based on life conditioning to improve sleep.

For example, rubbing soles of the feet before going to bed can help sleep. Pregnant women, usually of less activity, and sleep well at night often. Rub a rub in the soles of the feet before going to bed, not only the shortcomings in the supplementary motor stimulate the soles of the feet less the role of nerves, but also Yin and kidney, Home for the internal organs, improve sleep quality.
Specific practices, first with warm feet, dry feet after a leg disc in a separate legs, soles of the feet toward the opposite side, rubbing his right foot with his left hand when the heart, left heart when the right hand, and finally a circular motion rub to warm. After rubbing after the massage with the thumb and index finger one by one toe, hard not too large, then wash your hands with warm water on it. Frequent rubbing soles of the feet, can promote blood circulation, but also conducive to fetal growth and development.

It is noteworthy that, in time Do not rub massage using massage oil, some massage oil containing chemicals penetrate the skin may lead to adverse effects.