Pregnant womens right way to sleep

This rather overdramatic headline stems from a new study that investigated the effects of mothers' sleep positions on baby behaviour in 29 women in the final weeks of pregnancy.

Compared with when mothers slept on their left side, which was most common, babies were slightly more likely to be active and awake when women slept on their right side, and slightly more likely to be quietly asleep when women slept on their back.


That made things worse. "The open center of the inner tube pulled her belly in and caused her back to arch inward," said Logan, who lives in New Jersey with his wife and daughter, Londyn. So they tinkered with some designs and came up with the Cozy Bump, which has an air chamber to combat back-arching and a raised headrest.

Some organisations, such as the American Pregnancy Association, recommend pregnant women sleep on their left side as this will "increase the amount of blood and nutrients that reach the placenta".