I posted Mikkee's thoughts on missions below, so please scroll down to read them. But I have a pregnancy question for you: why can't I breathe when I lie down? I don't have much heartburn, so it doesn't seem to me like the baby is high enough to crowd my lungs. Why can't I breathe?
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Are your boobs bigger than normal also you have a lot of weight from the baby pressing on you. I feel claustrophobic when I lay down because there is so much weight up around and in our personal space. Also, and I could have googled this to be more accurate but I'll wing it from memory, but I read at some point that because blood volume has doubled/or more by now the capillaries in the lungs are working extra hard and/or not opening as large as when we aren't pregnant thus making it harder to breathe.
Not exactly scientifica
the extra blood thing is true but also everything shifts upward when you lay down crowding your diaphragm.. when you are standing you have gravity to help pull everything out of the way so your lungs can expand... not so much when you lay down...its getting crowded in there...
is it weird that i read this and missed the way it feels to be pregnant? uh-oh.
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