Pregnant woman’s sleep position may double the risk of stillbirth
After the study New Zealand researchers announced that women who do not sleep on their left side on their last night of pregnancy have double risk of late stillbirth in comparison with women who do sleep on their left side.
The Researchers who have conducted the study have told that women should not worry, because the increased risk is still very small and the chance of the child being stillborn increases by 3.93 for 1 000 for those who doesn't sleep on the left side from 1.96 for 1 000 for those who do.
Limited blood flow to the baby when the mother lies on her back or right side for long periods may explain the link, suggests Thomasine Stacey of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Auckland, whose study was published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
They say an essential link was also found between sleeping during the day, and sleeping longer than average at night, late stillbirth risk.
She has also told the results which have been based on rather small amount of women, should be confirmed by the larger, more detailed researches before any public health advice could be given. "It is a new hypothesis and means that we should start to look at this problem much closer. It is really a starting point for the future research," Stacey added.
If the results were confirmed, they could suggest reducing a simple, cheap and natural way to cut the number of stillbirths. It's something that's very easily giving in to change. You don't need to take any drugs and there are no side effects, the researchers have informed.
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