Any tall snoogle lovers?

[oneontheway]

I know what you mean bostonsmama. During my second pregnancy one of the doctors said it was fine to sleep on your back as long as I was elevated. She said I would feel light headed if something was being compressed. Yesterday a different OB said no back at all. Urgghhh.

[♥ms.pacman♥]

i'm not that tall (5'6") but when iw as preggo i LOVED LOVED LOVED the Snoogle. yes, it was annoying when i wanted to switch sides, but then again,that was the whole point! before that i had a body pillow and it wasn't the same at all, wasn't nearly as comfortable or as helpful as the Snoogle. i guess i also was a side-sleeper normally anyway, so i was used to it. i mainly got the snoogle to prevent from rolling onto my back and to avoid having five thousand pillows everywhere.

it's funny actually, most of my friends loved the Snoogle while they were preggo, and the few that didn't like it were all very petite. i think one friend who is 5'1" said didn't like it bc she felt it was just too huge and she felt like she was being smothered by it. so it seems like it would be okay for a taller person.

the Snoogle i found was also very useful for breastfeeding in bed after i had the baby, or for propping myself up in bed to watch TV.

[sste]

I'm not due quite as soon as you, but I still hate sleeping on my side. I seem to wake up every morning on my back, b/c this is how I sleep the deepest. My OB tried to assuage my fears by telling me that I'm very "small" and that until the baby gets a little bigger, I shouldn't worry too much, but the guilt keeps me tossing at night more than forcing myself to side-sleep. Less than a hour into sleep, my whole side falls asleep (numb), and I have to change positions. It's SO frustrating. My body pillow makes me feel hot, too, and I hate having to reposition the body pillow to the other side when I flip to my right (which would be the same w/ the snoogle). I'm trying to hold off. Only a few more months of hellish sleeping--then comes the baby-induced kind.

I have this same problem. I asked my OB about this b/c it seemed to me that if oxygen-deprivation really caused all these problems we would be seeing ALOT of babies with retardation and other problems from oxygen-deprivation. So, I asked what the actual research was on this. She told me that if I wasn't experiencing light-headedness, gasping, fainting, etc. there actually wasn't any evidence of baby harm. The baby compensates by staying still and utilizing less oxygen. But, that said, she also told me that OBs think its better to try to side sleep since there is a lack of research on the issue and the possibility of problems.

Anyway, my OB brainstormed the following trick for me: one substantial height pillow tucked directly under the hip on the opposing side (so I side sleep on the left and the pillow goes under my right hip). Then a body pillow (I have the 10 buck one from bed/bath/beyond on the other side. She said for me a reasonable goal might not be a "full side sleep" but rather to torque myself 20-50 degrees toward the side sleep position. This has actually worked pretty well and it got rid of the mild breathlessness I was experiencing.