Postpartum insomnia
Moorcroft, W.H., Understanding Sleep and Dreaming. Schwab, Sleep disorders during pregnancy. Lee, Sources of mid-sleep awakenings in childbearing women. Gay, Sleep in late pregnancy predicts length of labor and type of delivery. Douglas, Sleep complaints: snoring and daytime sleepiness in pregnant and pre-eclamptic women. McEnany, Parity and sleep patterns during and after pregnancy. Shapiro, A longitudinal study of sleep stages in young women during pregnancy and postpartum. Schweiger, M.S., Sleep disturbance in pregnancy. National Sleep Foundation, Sleep and women poll. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Nasal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure.Anemia associated with pregnancy places women at increased risk for restless legs syndrome (RLS), and insufficient amounts of sleep during the third trimester may place women at increased risk for longer labors and cesarean births (6). Furthermore, women with snoring and daytime sleepiness are at higher risk for developing pre-eclampsia (5). The hypoxia associated with OSA may contribute to maternal hypertension and intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR). Pregnant women who are obese are at higher risk for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Reasons for poor sleep vary by trimester, but sleep problems begin early in the first trimester with complaints of urinary frequency as progesterone level rises and creatinine clearance increases (2– 4). Most women (78%) report that their sleep is worse during pregnancy than at any other time in their lives (1).