did you feel light headed or queasy at all after you woke up? if so, the lying on your back might have even woken you up. you don't mention how pregnant you are, but since you said you are feeling your baby move a lot now, i'm guessing well into the second trimester and maybe even the third. for most women, at some point in the second trimester laying on your back or even reclining to severely can cause the weight of the uterus to press on the inferior vena cava, which is the major vein returning deoxygenated blood from the lower parts of the body to the heart. generally, this is what will cause many women to feel "light headed" or sometimes even sick to their stomachs or queasy. it doesn't cut off the blood flow entirely, just reduces the amount of blood passing through.
so my educated guess is that you didn't just knock iq points off for baby or even make them tingly, but you did perhaps increase the amount of stuff (good, like oxygen in and carbon dioxide out and other waste products out, and bad like maybe the too much salt you had at your last meal or something similar) that was able to diffuse/osmose across the placental barrier because of the increased time it took to completely move through that area.
that said, i think i can understand about the chiropractic problems, but as your uterus and baby get bigger and heavier, laying on your back might even become more uncomfortable. do you have a pregnancy body pillow? i'm about to order myself a Snoogle after doing without a body pillow my last pregnancy. i was so uncomfortable with what i thought were average pregnancy aches and pains last time, but now i know that it was pretty significant pubic symphysis joint pain probably due to some pelvic misalignment. i'm already seeing a chiropractor this time around because the p.s. joint pain has already started, and i've been reading up on things to help minimize the pain.
hope this helps! and try not to worry about doing harm to your babe when you accidentally find yourself in an uncomfortable body position with tingly-ness! just think of it as your body warning you that it isn't feeling good and so you get woken up to fix it.
~claudia
so my educated guess is that you didn't just knock iq points off for baby or even make them tingly, but you did perhaps increase the amount of stuff (good, like oxygen in and carbon dioxide out and other waste products out, and bad like maybe the too much salt you had at your last meal or something similar) that was able to diffuse/osmose across the placental barrier because of the increased time it took to completely move through that area.
that said, i think i can understand about the chiropractic problems, but as your uterus and baby get bigger and heavier, laying on your back might even become more uncomfortable. do you have a pregnancy body pillow? i'm about to order myself a Snoogle after doing without a body pillow my last pregnancy. i was so uncomfortable with what i thought were average pregnancy aches and pains last time, but now i know that it was pretty significant pubic symphysis joint pain probably due to some pelvic misalignment. i'm already seeing a chiropractor this time around because the p.s. joint pain has already started, and i've been reading up on things to help minimize the pain.
hope this helps! and try not to worry about doing harm to your babe when you accidentally find yourself in an uncomfortable body position with tingly-ness! just think of it as your body warning you that it isn't feeling good and so you get woken up to fix it.
~claudia
