Troubleshooting Sleep Issues During Pregnancy and as a New Parent

Pregnancy Podcast

Vanessa Merten

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.5 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The growing body of research on sleep demonstrates the absolute necessity of sleep for every biological function. Your body changes significantly during pregnancy and while recovering from birth and breastfeeding. One of the best interventions for your health, recovery, and your baby's health is to get good sleep. Unfortunately, these life stages also come with challenges to your sleep. Those challenges can be in the form of common pregnancy symptoms or a newborn who needs you at all hours of the night. The good news is that there are evidence-based tools and tips to overcome these challenges and improve your sleep.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the pregnancy podcast with Vanessa Merton.
0:07.0	Hello, thank you for tuning into the pregnancy podcast. In this episode today
0:16.1	we're going to troubleshoot some issues that can come up with sleep during
0:20.2	pregnancy and when you're a new parent.
0:23.2	There is a growing body of research on sleep
0:26.0	that demonstrates the necessity of sleep
0:28.4	for every biological function.
0:31.1	This includes learning, memory, brain function, your mental health, appetite
0:36.1	regulation, your immune system, metabolic function, your gut microbiome, even the health of your cardiovascular system.
0:44.9	You can find the full article and all of the resources that accompany this episode at
0:50.3	pregnancy podcast.com slash sleep issues.
0:56.0	As soon as you find out you're pregnant you have tons of questions.
1:00.0	The good news is there's an episode of the pregnancy podcast that has the answers you're looking for.
1:05.9	You currently are listening to the public feed, so you're going to hear advertisements from the
1:10.3	sponsors that support this show and have access to the last year of episodes.
1:15.7	You can become a pregnancy podcast premium member and get access to the entire back catalog and you'll never hear ads. So if you have questions about
1:25.6	whether something is safe during your pregnancy there's an episode for that.
1:29.7	If you want to dig more into the evidence on an intervention for labor and birth,
1:34.4	there's going to be an episode that examines the research.
1:37.6	Pregnancy Podcast premium members have access to every single episode in the private podcast feed you access in your
1:45.3	favorite podcast app. Become a premium member at pregnancy podcast.com
1:51.5	slash premium. During pregnancy podcast. And one of the best things that you can do for your health, your recovery, and for the health of your baby is to get good sleep.
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