Sleep well so as not to have a headache during pregnancy

Sleeping properly, both in posture and in time, is essential for anyone. If you have been pregnant, you will know one of its first symptoms: sleep. We must not ignore what our body asks us, and if we talk about lack of sleep, it can cause a headache. To avoid them, during pregnancy you have to try to sleep well, we are in the month of gestation that we are.

A study has revealed that there is a relationship between the few hours of sleep and the need to take medications for migraines during pregnancy. Especially, women who suffer migraines in the first trimester of pregnancy usually take drugs to fight them, when they are in the most vulnerable period of fetal development.

To identify which women needed medications for migraines in pregnancy, the team analyzed data from observations made between 1999 and 2006 on more than 60,000 Norwegian pregnant women. The women who had said that they slept less than five hours a night they were 50% more likely to need drugs than those who rested more hours per night.

Between 20 and 80 percent of women suffer migraines during pregnancy, and many of them could be due to lack of sleep. Trying better sleep habits, we would save for our body during pregnancy the drugs that are necessary to combat that pain, which could harm the fetus. Remember that, during pregnancy, the fewer medications we take, the better.

This research, which has been carried out by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, gives us one more reason to heed our sleep during pregnancy and try to fight headaches by sleeping well. Also after having had our baby we must try to sleep when we can, so we can begin to try it.