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Summary: Breathing difficulties during pregnancy are common because of the hormones involved as well as the mechanical pressure of the baby on the diaphragm. Maintain good posture and stay propped up at night for better lung capacity with helpful information from a certified nurse-midwife in this free video on pregnancy questions.
Michelle Collins has more than 20 years of experience in the field of maternal-child health, first as a labor, delivery and pediatric nurse, and currently as a certified nurse-midwife....read more
"Want to know about treating breathing difficulties in pregnancy? Hi! I'm Michelle Collins, certified nurse-midwife and professor of nursing at Vanderbilt University. Most pregnant women at sometime in their pregnancy will complain of being at least short of breath. During pregnancy, our need for oxygen increases, our home, our hormones cause that but also the mechanical pressure of the baby putting pressure against the diaphragm, decreases the amount of space for us to be able to fill our lung, so our lung capacity is a little bit decreased in pregnancy. At the end of pregnancy when the baby drops down in the pelvis which is also called lightening, mothers feel like they can take a deep breath easier, hence the name lightening. Some things that a woman can do when she's having shortness of breath is to make sure that she's sitting or standing with good posture so that her lungs do have full capacity to expand. At nighttime if it happens she can prop herself up in bed and even sleep at a semi-angle with some pillows behind her to prop her head and chest. If she should notice that there is a sudden onset of the shortness of breath or it's accompanied by a cough, pain in the chest, weakness or feeling faint, she should notify her midwife or her obstetrical provider right away. Some women have asthma in pregnancy and women who go into pregnancy with asthma, about a third of women with asthma will have improved symptoms, a third will have worst symptoms and then the other third will stay the same. And so if you're having any problems with asthma going into pregnancy make sure you let your provider know right away if you feel symptoms worsening."
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