On my back, the child would fall into my spine, and I was too big to lie on my stomach. The only position in which I could sleep was on my side. Both the sleep patterns and the position continued after labor. The child would wake me up at night the same times I would have woken up when I was pregnant. And although I did not begin breastfeeding on my side for a few months, it prepared me so I could breastfeed and sleep at the same time.
Pregnancy is a transistion to motherhood both physically and psychologically.