There is no denying that sleep sounds like a relief after a hectic schedule. Those 6 to 8 hours sleep a day is what allow us to deal with everyday stress. As we grow up, our love for sleep grows more and more and we fall in love with beds in Ireland. Ideally our sleeping duration is supposed to relax our body and rejuvenate us, but sleeping in the wrong posture can result in stressing the body even more.

You fill find lots of people who sleep on their stomach, but can it cause any trouble or help to sleep better, let’s find out.

Let’s start with spine

Several stomach sleepers experience some sort of pain, either in neck, joints or back. The magnitude of this pain can affect the quality of sleep and thus can result in fatigue and restlessness during the day. Several studies suggest that sleeping on your stomach can strain your back, especially your spine. The prime reason being the fact that most of the body weight lies in the middle portion of the body, i.e around the spine. Sleeping on the stomach makes it difficult to uphold the neutral position of spine while sleeping. Thus the stress on spine increases significantly. Since the spine is the main controlling head of the nervous system, several body parts feel numb after waking up.

Then comes the neck

Since you cannot breath across your pillow, you need to turn your head to either side of the pillow. This results in twisting and misalignment of the neck with the spine. You are less likely to feel any major change after a single night sleep or for a while as that matter of fact, but after a period of time, you are more likely to notice the strained neck and eventually result in major neck injury. A portion of neck called the herniated disk gets jammed after a long period of sleeping on belly and can cause rupture of a gel like substance and can result in severe damage in long run.

Dealing with the snores

The only benefits you can get from sleeping on your stomach is significant diminishing of snoring and sleep apnea.

Extra caution for would-be-moms

When you are eating for two, remember to get adequate sleep for proper growth and development of the baby. Also avoid sleeping on belly at all cost as it can cause some serious trouble for your little one. Moreover while sleeping on back, your baby does not get squeeze between your belly and your bed and thus gets adequate room to stay comfortably.