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Re: 36 weeks - can't sleep

From: Lynn D. Montgomery, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 14 Feb 2001 23:35:57 -0600 (CST)

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At Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Emma wrote: >
>I am 36 weeks pregnant, and I can no longer remain comfortable for
>sleeping for more than an hour. I am having back pain and headaches due
>to a car accident a couple of weeks ago. I am also having some lower
>adominal pain just from the extra weight of the baby. I take Tylenol to
>help with the pain, but I am not able to get enough relief to get a good
>night's sleep. The day of the accident, I was given a sleeping pill to
>make me more comfortable for the night in the hospital. I was wondering
>at this point if that might be helpful. If the safest thing for the
>baby is for me to have the sporadic sleep schedule, I will continue with
>the Tylenol, but I wonder sometimes if it might do me better to get one
>good night of sleep.

First of all, it is quite common to not sleep well in the last weeks of the pregnancy. It is God's way of getting you used to the sleep deprivation that accompanies parenthood. If you think you can't sleep now, just wait. You might try warm milk. By warming whole milk, you activate tryptophan, which induces sleep safely. You can't add anything like chocolate though... Lynn

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Lynn D. Montgomery, MD
Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Rocky Mountain Perinatal Center
Missoula, Montana

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