Sleepiness as one of the early signs of pregnancy

Dustiness during pregnancy is caused by changes in the female body. To make a woman feel cheerful, you should sleep more and comply with some recommendations

Pregnancy is caused by major changes in the female body, its physiology and psychology change, changes and in the work of many internal organs, and even in habit.

Total restructuring of the body entails the appearance of symptoms, previously unusual for a woman. A woman begins to disturb Permanent drowsiness during pregnancy. 

What caused drowsiness in pregnant women

Sleepiness, together with mild nausea and weakness, is the main sign of early pregnancy terms. It is these symptoms that are often forced women to think about the possibility of pregnancy. 

This state of the body of the future mother is explained by the elevated level of progesterone in the blood. In addition, this hormone has a direct impact on the reproductive system of the female organism, it affects the nervous system.

Due to the high level of progesterone, a woman feels weakness, becomes sluggish and even apathetic. Therefore, do not worry if you have drowsiness and weakness during pregnancy, because it is quite normal signs. Thus, the female organism is prepared for childbirth. 

Usually, the condition when a woman constantly wants to sleep, passes by the end of the third month, because the body gradually adapts to new conditions. During this period, the future mother is experiencing an emotional rise, tide of strength and energy.

For the entire period of having a child, a woman in a normal course of pregnancy, as a rule, there are two peaks of drowsiness: the second falls on 36-37 weeks. This is due to the intensive training of the body to the upcoming birth. 

Pathological drowsiness

It also happens that lethargy and drowsiness in the early deadlines of the child are reasons of flowing in the body of a woman’s pathological processes. The reason for anxiety should appear when apathy, the decline of the forces and the desire to sleep becomes constant satellites of the future mother. In this case, it is important to find the cause of this condition of the woman. Changes may be caused by excessive load, new conditions, strong fatigue at work, lack of sleep. 

However, it is impossible to exclude the development of some diseases that are manifested by these signs.

If drowsiness does not pass, there may be such pathological processes as:

• anemia;
• Gestosis and toxicosis;
• Enhance arterial pressure.

Under anemia when there is an insufficient amount of iron in the body, the woman wants to sleep. The right solution in such a situation will be an appeal to a specialist who must appoint blood analysis on hemoglobin, and on the basis of the results of the study, treatment.

If drowsiness during pregnancy is really caused by anemia, then such a process must be accompanied by other characteristic features. Woman will feel the numbness of the limbs, dizziness, the hair becomes brittle, and the skin pale. The reason for the permanent desire to sleep during this period may become swelling or elevated blood pressure. 

How to work with drowsiness?

Pregnant women in early pregnancy is very hard to work when you constantly want to sleep. Gynecological obstetricists say that it is not necessary to deal with such a state, because it is a healthy physiological need for rest. Chronic lack of sleep is very harmful for the future mother and her child.

To find a way out of the current situation, to sleep and at the same time not to give up work, comply with such recommendations:

• There are a lot of fresh air, walking bigger;
• Try to avoid crowded places;
• Well ventilate the work room;
• Try not to be overworked, it is better to postpone the unfulfilled work on another day;
• Be sure to rest well at night, even a strong workload at work is not a reason to reduce sleep duration;
• Perform the sink exercises every day;
• To quickly wake up in the morning, instead of coffee drink fresh fruit juice and eat a portion of the muesley with fruit. 

To fully relax a pregnant woman even with drowsiness in the early period of pregnancy, it is necessary to spend free time. It will be right if you sleep as much as you want it, because the health of your baby depends on the rest.

If earlier you loved to have fun with friends, you will have to give up this hobbies in favor of calm evening walks in the fresh air. 

For a calmer and deep sleep for the night it is useful to take a warm shower and drink a glass of milk. Sleeping a woman should not less than 8 hours a day, but it will be better if the future mother will be resting in the day. It is necessary to go to bed no later than 22:00, because the most healthy dream falls from 22:00 to 01:00. 

Closer to childbirth passes the woman becomes more cheerful and active. That is why often when drowsiness passes during pregnancy in late terms, they speak about speedy birth. If you sleep at least 10 hours a day, then lethargy will not accompany you during pregnancy.