When you're expecting a baby, you don't always expect sleep.
Pregnant and exhausted? Relieve evening discomfort and anxiety with slow breathing that reduces the perception of pain and helps you fall asleep.
Problem description:
Frequent awakenings, difficulty falling asleep... Expectant mothers' nights are not restful. The causes of these difficult nights are multiple, but they can generally be classified into two categories: physiological causes and psychological causes.
Among the physiological causes are pain due to acid reflux, cramps, leg pain, back pain, or joint pain. Diuretic needs also contribute to waking you up; normally you could fall back asleep easily, unless anxiety prevents you.
Anxiety is the major psychological cause of difficult nights for an expectant mother, but it also has a physiological impact! Anxiety activates what is called the state of alertness, a physiological mechanism characterized by hyperactivation of the autonomic nervous system. Neurotransmitters like noradrenaline are released, contributing to stimulating your wakefulness center and keeping you awake.
Objectives:
1. Relaxing your body to make it less sensitive to pain. Indeed, when the body is at rest, it is less reactive to pain and you experience a feeling of well-being!
2. Helping you move from a state of alertness to a state of rest by counteracting the effects of anxiety that keep you awake.
3. Letting go.
How Dodow helps you:
Unlike a sleeping pill, Dodow is not swallowed, making it a product particularly suitable for pregnant women, for whom sleeping pills are strongly discouraged!
By breathing very slowly at the pace indicated by Dodow, you relax deeply. Additionally, several scientific studies have shown that slow breathing reduces the perception of pain.
Ultimately, Dodow's effect on pain is similar to that of Yoga or sophrology, with the advantage of being able to do the exercise directly from your bed without having to pay for each session. Moreover, Dodow guides you for 8 or 20 minutes, so no more effort needed!
By breathing long enough at Dodow's rhythm (6 breaths per minute), you stimulate the baroreflex, a small physiological mechanism that helps restore the balance of the autonomic nervous system. This way, you quickly move from a state of alertness to a state of rest, the same state you are in during digestion: slightly drowsy.
Synchronizing your breathing with a light that pulses at a slow and steady rhythm has a hypnotic effect (the phenomenon is similar to watching a pendulum). Thus, after a few minutes you are able to let go and fall asleep.
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Types of insomnia:
• Stress
• Thoughts racing in your head
• Worries
