A 2023 paper, ‘Indirect associations between infant sleep, parent sleep and sexual well-being in new parent couples’, studied infant sleep quality, parental sleep, sexual frequency, and sexual desire at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months postpartum.
A 2022 report studied sleep, depression, and brain development in children at about 4.5, 10, 12, 13, 17, and 19 years of age. They measured the volume of gray matter of the brain (representing the concentration of the cell bodies of the nerves in the brain). There was an “interaction between bedtime and preschool depression severity, indicating that children with the earliest bedtimes and the lowest levels of depression showed the largest gray matter volume.”
The 4 sleep variables that they studied individually were: Bedtime
1. Night time sleep hours
2. Night awakening frequency (how often the child awakens at night)
3. Sleep onset latency (how long it takes to fall asleep)
4. Sleep onset latency (how long it takes to fall asleep)
Does melatonin help your child sleep better? A 2020 study titled “Efficacy and safety of melatonin for sleep onset insomnia in children and adolescents: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials” attempted to answer this question.
Sometimes I have recommended to teenagers who are short on sleep that they take a five-day “sleep spa” treatment. No, that doesn’t mean having their parents book them into an expensive resort! It simply means dedicating five days to going to sleep earlier than usual.
Antonio was born two weeks early and without difficulty. I remember thinking several hours after his birth that he was going to be a very easy boy, since my pregnancy and delivery were both routine and relatively easy. Three days after we brought him home, however, I realized that my expectations might have been a little off.
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