Tag Archive for 'science'
Baby Sleep Affected by Depressed Mothers
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung September 2nd, 2008 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, SLEEP News, SLEEP Psychology, Sleep Issues.
So now it can be told. As far as understanding why some babies have a chaotic way of sleeping, much of it can be attributed to the state that their mothers are in before they are born.
This is really a traditional belief. We see mothers doing a lot of things to help mold their babies into wiser and healthier offsprings. Apparently, the bottom-line is that they have to make sure that they are always in a light mood since the mental state plays a vital role in baby upbringing and sleep patterns are included in them.
Here are some of the common things we see pregnant mothers do to ensure that their baby is healthy both physically and mentally overall:
1. Reading books
2. Sleeping at the right time
3. Body Lying positions
4. Food preferences
5. Vitamins and supplements
These are common things we see for most mothers today. For the new and upcoming mothers, take the advice of your own mother. They can make a difference in the upbringing of you future child and help you understand them better.
(Source) Science Daily
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Clarifying the Sleep Deprivation Issue
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung January 18th, 2008 in How to sleep better, SLEEP News, SLEEP Psychology, Sleep Issues.
All of us would be going at anything to uncover the true secret of sleeping better. But while we are inclined towards looking for the scientific aspects included in getting much sought after slumber, perhaps the question that should be asked is does it really need scientific intervention.
Sleep deprivation is known to originate from personal faults or even hereditary capacities. But of the two, it really seems like we are the ones responsible for making sleep an issue.
If this is the case, then we should perhaps change the whole approach of science. They are trying to help sleep deprived people to sleep better and not to find why sleeping is becoming a growing issue among people in the world today.
After a few restless nights, most of us can’t even think straight. We are less able to make sense of problems, make competent moral judgments or retain what we learn, even though studies show our brain cells fire more frenetically to overcome the lack of sleep. Lose too much sleep and we become reckless, emotionally fragile, and more vulnerable to infections and to diabetes, heart disease and obesity, recent research suggests.
(Source) The Wall Street Journal
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