When did you stop sleeping on your tummy..

[uppsydaisyhereicome]

I'm 14 weeks pregnant and only have a very small bump but I feel I shouldn't be sleeping on my tummy anymore - I find it really hard to sleep on my side or back. Will it do any harm sleeping on my tummy?

I only stopped after @ 7 months as I am totally unable to go to sleep in any other position !
Then however, I did get used to sleeping on my back/side and still am due to enourmous norks of bountiful milk .
As the baby is cushioned in water you cannot actually squash it, so as long as you are comfortable you can safely sleep on your front. In fact, when you are a bit further on lying flat on your back makes some woman feel faint as the weight of the baby presses on one of the main blood vessels.
And then of course, there will be the time in late pregnancy when you cannot sleep whatever you do .....

Oooh, thanks for asking that uppsy, I'm also 14 weeks and have always slept on my stomach--find it impossible to sleep any other way. Lately been wondering when/if I'd have to stop, as a lot of weekly pregnancy calendar type things seem to be saying 'you're probably finding it hard to sleep on your tummy' and I'm thinking, 'nope, still easy!'

In my case, I'm pretty overweight and carry a lot of flab on my abdomen (classic apple shape), so I'm used to sleeping on a bump. I can't tell if it's all still just flab or if there's a baby bump underneath

Looking forward to hearing other stomach sleepers' experiences.

Stopped about 24 weeks. It just felt too uncomfortable. I love sleeping on my stomach - I can easily fall asleep in that position. Now at 33 weeks the only positions I can sleep in are on my left side and my right side briefly. If I try and sleep on my back - I feel that I just can't breathe.

Following delivery of my first baby - I thought it would be great so I could lie back on my stomach again - however, large lactating norks also stopped this and as I BF for over a year, it was ages until I could adopt my favourate sleeping position.

But, about 3 weeks after stopping breastfeeding I got pregnant again - so I am back to having restless nights!

Mind you anything is better that the impending few weeks following delivery when a new little baby seems to wake you up every half an hour throughout the night!

stopped as soon as i knew 5 weeks felt sick all the time, now too uncomfortable and still only 14 weeks

About 18 weeks, i'm 20 weeks now. I tried to get into it since I found out, I've always slept on my stomach so thought I best get used to it as early on as possible. Took 3 months of giving in and rolling onto my tummy, but I sleep on my left side mainly now, with a 'V' shaped pillow between my legs. Sooo comfy

How funny, I was only thinking the other day about starting a thread with this exact title!!!!

I stopped sleeping on my tummy a couple of wks ago when I was 14 weeks, it just felt a bit funny, not uncomfortable as such, it just started to feel like I was sleeping on a lump.

About 18 weeks. I couldn't get comfy any other way! A maternity pillow really helped once I had to sleep on my side.

i'm 11wks and have been thinking that. i fall asleep on my side then wake up on my belly. i surpose if it was not right or we should not then we would wake up as soon as we went onto our bellys. its to comfy so i'm going to carry on till my bump is to big.