Healthy Sleep Habits Essential For Maternal And Infant Health, Poor Sleep Can Take A Toll: Study
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A new study has analyzed maternal and infant sleep patterns, identifying predictors, and provided recommendations for instilling healthy habits. The study was published in the journal, "Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics". “The first two years is a really critical period where a lot of development is going on, and sleep is important for health. We wanted to look at the association of mother and infant sleep and whether it changes over time,” said Tianying Cai, now a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University.
“We identified two distinct groups, a low maternal sleep group where the mothers get 5 to 6 hours of sleep per night, and an average maternal sleep group, which meets the national recommended sleep guidelines with 7 to 8 hours per night. Children in the low maternal sleep group also slept less, although the difference wasn’t as large as for the mothers,” Cai stated. The research team followed parents of 464 infants in the first