U.S. study found that new mothers can give birth a few months enough sleep, yet not a good night's sleep.
Researchers from West Virginia University in Morgantown follow the development of a group of new mothers and the average finding the young mother could not sleep more than seven hours per night in the first four months after giving birth.
That is the amount recommended for adults, and based on previous research, more than the average American slept for seven hours.
But the study found that young mothers that sleep is often disturbed. They woke up for about two hours per night. Sleep disturbance was feared to cause problems and stimulate fatigue on the young mother, and will contribute to postpartum depression and affect job performance.
Researcher Dr. E. Hawley Montgomery-Downs, an assistant professor of psychology, said that the research question the central assumptions about the common pattern in young mothers.
He told Reuters Health that the common assumption is that most young mothers do not get enough sleep, so the suggestion that develops solutions focused on fight against sleep deprivation, which causes fatigue in the daytime, that is by sleeping when the baby was asleep.
Results to date, as reported by "The American Journal of Obstetrics Gynecology &", indicates that the cause of fatigue during the day is a fragmented sleep in some sections.
Their sleep patterns, said Montgomery-Downs, has similarities with sleep disorders like sleep apnea (sleep with difficulty breathing), while the old man to sleep but get less quality sleep.
Sleep occurs in cycles repeated every 90 minutes to two hour. Depending on how young mothers wake, sleep cycles probably received little or not completely, explained Montgomery-Downs.
"We need to think about going to form a strategy that can help improve sleep for these young mothers," said Montgomery-Downs.
One tactic, he added, nursing mothers can find time to pump and store milk in the bottle so that instead they should wake up with the baby.
Montgomery-Downs said that if there are parents who "lucky" to have babies who sleep for at least two full hours, it is recommended to take the opportunity to sleep.
This result is based on 74 young mothers studied, following the development of infants aged 2 weeks to the 13, or age infants between week 9 until the 16th.
The young mother sleep patterns recorded in the "diary" of sleep and also wore a wristwatch-like device called a "actigraph" that is able to record their movements at night
Label: Research: New Mom Sleeping Less Able
