Sleep special
Is It Normal? The Pregnancy Podcast With Jessie Ware
Alice Williams
4.6 • 675 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Getting a good night’s sleep is something many of us can struggle with, especially if you’re pregnant or have young children, so we’ve partnered with John Lewis, who have an amazing sleep range and even offer a free virtual sleep appointment service to help you create your perfect sleep cocoon. In this fascinating bonus episode we talk to sleep expert, Dr Guy Meadows, about good sleep habits, what to do if you are having a sleepless night, how to encourage your new born baby into a sleep routine and how much sleep we actually need.
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*This podcast is intended as an informative discussion around general issues related to pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period. If you have any questions or concerns relating to your health and pregnancy it is important to contact your midwife or GP.
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| 0:00.0 | Is it normal to have really vivid dreams? |
| 0:07.2 | Is it normal to feel so bone tired all the time? |
| 0:10.7 | Is it normal that I'm incredibly congested and snoring like a foghorn? |
| 0:14.7 | Is it normal to need so many naps? |
| 0:20.2 | Hello and welcome to Is It Normal, the Pregnancy podcast with me, Jessie Ware. |
| 0:25.1 | This is a special episode all about the magical and sometimes elusive thing called sleep. |
| 0:31.6 | Sleep or lack of is one of the main things that parents to be or new parents worry about. |
| 0:36.8 | And we've had so many |
| 0:37.7 | messages from pregnant people about their struggle with sleep. So I thought I'd do this special |
| 0:42.4 | episode in partnership with John Lewis to explore all aspects of sleep. So John Lewis have their own |
| 0:48.0 | sleep range and also offer free personal virtual sleep appointments to help you overcome any issues |
| 0:53.5 | you may have with getting a |
| 0:54.8 | good night's sleep. Whether you're pregnant and finding it hard to sleep, you're a new parent |
| 0:58.9 | or you're worried about how to encourage your baby to sleep. I hope this episode will help you |
| 1:03.1 | in some way. I'm joined by sleep psychologist Dr Guy Meadows. Guy has been working on sleep |
| 1:09.5 | for the past 20 years and 16 of which have been |
| 1:12.6 | dedicated to helping clients overcome insomnia. He's the author of the sleep book and co-founder |
| 1:18.8 | of Sleep School and Sleep School app. Thank you so much for joining me on Is It Normal Guy. |
| 1:23.9 | Let's get straight to it. How's your sleep been last night? I presume quite good. Actually, |
| 1:28.7 | yet last night was a good night. Thank you. Yeah. How about you? Do you ever have a bad night? |
| 1:34.0 | I get asked this question a lot and I think it's really important to sort of acknowledge that I'm a normal |
| 1:39.8 | sleeper and which means that, you know, I have, I've got two children. They, they've sort of |
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