Factor Increasing The Risk Of Stillbirth.
Women who nod off on their backs in the later months of pregnancy may have a less higher hazard of stillbirth if they already have other risk factors, a reborn study suggests. Experts stressed that the findings do not prove that zizz position itself affects stillbirth risk. "We should be cautious in interpreting the results," said Dr George Saade, headman of maternal-fetal panacea at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston our site. "We can't conclude that sleeping on the back causes stillbirth, or that sleeping on your standpoint will bar it," said Saade, who was not active in the study.
It is, however, plausible that back-sleeping could contribute. Lying on the back can exacerbate repose apnea, where breathing repeatedly stops and starts throughout the night, and if a fetus is already vulnerable, that reduced oxygen rise could conceivably raise the odds of stillbirth. Dr Adrienne Gordon, the experience researcher on the study, agreed that if sleep position contributes to stillbirth, it would undoubtedly be only if other risk factors are present, such as impaired crop of the fetus.
And "Stillbirth is much more complicated than one risk factor," said Gordon, a neonatologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia. But if rest status does matter that would be conspicuous because it can be changed. Stillbirth refers to a pregnancy loss after the 20th week. According to the March of Dimes, about one in 160 pregnancies ends in stillbirth - with ancestry defects, indigent fetal wart and problems with the placenta among the causes.