A good sleeping posture can help reduce your snoring. Keeping your head and spine in good alignment while you sleep certainly helps. But the single most positive change you can make to your sleeping posture, in order to reduce your snoring, is sleep on your side rather than on your back. There are a number of products available that are worn on the body that encourage you to sleep on your side.

I’m sure you’ve heard of the idea of sewing tennis balls into your pyjamas. This has never appealed to me and I have never tried it. Although I have come across the advice many times in books, health literature and on the web, I don’t know of anyone else who has ever tried it either. So having no personal feedback I won’t discount it out of hand. But for me, knowing how badly I wake after sleeping on a lumpy, or less than perfect mattress, using tennis balls would be a solution of last resort. Of all the other commercial devices that work on a similar principle, the most comfortable device that I have found is Dr Parker’s snore relief cushion .

I don’t use this particular device personally; however I do use something that has helped me to sleep on my side. I use a small pillow that I put between my knees. Along with a good head pillow , a small pillow between the knees makes for a better sleeping posture. And it just makes sleeping on my side more comfortable. You don’t have to buy a special type; you’re sure to already have something at home that will fit the bill. It can take a couple of nights to get used to, but I have found it well worthwhile. In fact I can’t sleep without one now!

Another type of pillow that does the same thing is the full length pillow. There are two basic types the pillow that you hug and the pillow that runs down your back. Both help keep your spine straight and encourage you to sleep on your side.

Both the Snoogle Total Body Pillow and the Snoozer Full Body Pillow are primarily targeted at pregnant woman. But they are effective at keeping the sleeper on their side. And they’re comfortable as well!

Given the choice of tennis balls strapped to my back or a full body pillow… Well I think you know which I’d choose!

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