Risk of stillbirth

[sammylouise56]

Is it true that if you get up more in the night for the toilet in your last trimester it can increase your chance of stillbirth? People keep saying this to me at work and saying that I shouldn't sleep on my right side either..just want others advice:)

Lol that both are wrong, getting up through the night to go to the toilet is your baby lying on your bladder & sleeping on your back my cause stillbirth.they do say left is better but i do both through the night.
Im on baby no.6 gotten up through the night constant & slept on my right side. Also if u hold the toilet in through the night u will end up with a UTI x

Well I've never heard that one lol, I'm also on baby no 6 and never heard of it, please don't worry xx

This sounds completely mental!
If you need the toilet then you need the toilet! @Angelinthenightx is right, you'd end up with a UTI if you tried to hold it in.
Your colleagues sound like total wind up merchants! As someone who is also pregnant, hearing "don't worry" can sound really patronising as all of us just want a healthy baby and obsess over what we can do to facilitate that but in this case I will definitely say "DON'T WORRY - GO
FOR A WEE"
Good luck with your pregnancy!

Getting up to wee in the night is just standard pregnancy. The only way you won't is if you have a pelvic floor of steel and baby isn't constantly lying or punching you in the bladder.
Get up and wee when you need to.

With regards to sleeping. Try and get used to sleeping on your side. Sleeping on your back further through pregnancy can lead to important vessels being compressed, but I've read numerous times that your body will wake you up if it's a problem. I sleep on my side and always have done, even pre pregnancy, but sometimes wake up on my back. I think I've tried to roll over in my sleep, but have got stuck because I'm massive now!

They encourage lying on your left because your liver is on the right side of the body, so it's better that your uterus and baby arent squishing it if possible, but it doesn't cause a risk as far as I know, it's just your liver probably doesn't like it much as its quite an important organ and filled with a lot of blood.