TY - JOUR
T1 - Maternal Sleep in Pregnancy and Postpartum Part II
T2 - Biomechanisms and Intervention Strategies
AU - Carroll, Judith E.
AU - Teti, Douglas M.
AU - Hall, Martica H.
AU - Christian, Lisa M.
N1 - Funding Information:
One such approach involves the establishment of bedtime routines [56], which has been found to reduce infants’ latency to sleep, frequency, and length of infant nighttime awakenings, and mothers’ reports of reduced difficulties putting the infant to sleep. Another approach, currently being implemented, draws from empirical findings that coparenting quality at bedtime promotes infant sleep quality [57] and from the evidenced-based transition to parenthood coparenting intervention program, Family Foundations [58]. This program is specifically adapted to promote coparenting in and around infant sleep contexts, with the goal of promoting not only infant but also parent sleep, parental well-being, coparenting, and individual parenting quality, and infant socio-emotional outcomes across the first year. This study, funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, awaits its first wave of findings.
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PY - 2019/3/1
Y1 - 2019/3/1
N2 - Purpose of Review: As described in Part I of this two-part review, maternal sleep has wide-ranging implications for maternal health and overall family functioning. In addition, poor sleep quality and insufficient sleep are highly prevalent and characterized by considerable racial disparities. Recent Findings: Part II of this review discusses physiological mechanisms, including inflammation and appetite hormones, by which sleep impacts multiple facets of women’s health during pregnancy and postpartum. These mechanisms are increasingly being delineated, but require further study and better integration with studies of behavioral and physical health outcomes. Further, there are multiple potential strategies for improving maternal sleep, providing the opportunity to tailor treatment approaches to individual needs. Summary: Ultimately, as a critical health behavior that is amenable to intervention, sleep provides a promising future direction for measurably impacting clinically relevant health parameters in women of childbearing age.
AB - Purpose of Review: As described in Part I of this two-part review, maternal sleep has wide-ranging implications for maternal health and overall family functioning. In addition, poor sleep quality and insufficient sleep are highly prevalent and characterized by considerable racial disparities. Recent Findings: Part II of this review discusses physiological mechanisms, including inflammation and appetite hormones, by which sleep impacts multiple facets of women’s health during pregnancy and postpartum. These mechanisms are increasingly being delineated, but require further study and better integration with studies of behavioral and physical health outcomes. Further, there are multiple potential strategies for improving maternal sleep, providing the opportunity to tailor treatment approaches to individual needs. Summary: Ultimately, as a critical health behavior that is amenable to intervention, sleep provides a promising future direction for measurably impacting clinically relevant health parameters in women of childbearing age.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11920-019-1000-9
DO - 10.1007/s11920-019-1000-9
M3 - Review article
C2 - 30826895
AN - SCOPUS:85062403200
SN - 1523-3812
VL - 21
JO - Current Psychiatry Reports
JF - Current Psychiatry Reports
IS - 3
M1 - 19
ER -
