For slipping a dietary supplement to make kids sleep, former church daycare worker Pamela Hartley has been sentenced in Cincinnati to time in jail. She slipped the said supplement in candies and gave them to kids for them to sleep.

She was convicted for three counts of child endangering and three counts of misrepresentation by a childcare provider and was sentenced to six months, but all but 30 days of the sentence was suspended. Additionally, she also faces three years of probation.

Hartley gave kids melatonin to make her work easier at the church day care. Now she has been ordered never to work as a childcare provider ever again.

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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) has been a familiar problem for parents sleeping with their kids in bed. And if you think that isn’t enough, it seems that falling asleep on the sofa makes it entirely traumatic as reports bear the growing number of babies dying due to adults falling asleep on a sofa.

The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID) is a charity that aims to prevent sudden death and promote infant health. The FSID also shared that the safest place for a baby to sleep, for the first six months, is in a separate cot in a room with the parent or carer.

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While it is always a joy to see a baby enter your family, it seems that this is short-lived. As far as this study is concerned, new dads (not moms) suffer from post natal depression three to six months after their new child is born.

The rate of “baby blues” is lower than that of mothers but it seems that when dad’s have to deal with lack of sleep and new responsibilities, the realities of being a father starts to kick in and provide depression all the more.

Dr James Paulson and Sharnail Bazemore, who carried out the study, said more efforts should be made to improve screening and referral of at-risk fathers, particularly as mounting evidence suggests that early paternal depression may have substantial emotional, behavioural and developmental effects on children.

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The last thing you would think that could help people, especially the weight-gaining pregnant women would be sleep. We know that the reason for weight gain is linked to their added fetus inside and also the food intake as well as vitamins and minerals that help the mother and her unborn child healthy. But now, some people are saying that sleep can help them get back their actual frame.

A new study done by Kaiser Permanente in California finds sleep may be just as important as diet and exercise for shedding baby weight. One study has found that new moms who slept five or fewer hours a day, six months after giving birth, were three times as likely to hold onto those extra pounds as were women who got seven or more hours of sleep.

This seems interesting and should be a good guide for pregnant mommies out there. So if you are worried about getting back your original figure, this little study should more or less be a great reference and hope for you after you give birth.

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Sleep deprived people who are tired of heading over to the physician’s office to help diagnose their sleep problems can now look towards something innovative and handy in their home. Called Zeo, this new device acts as your personal sleep coach, designed to help consumers understand how they sleep, reveal habits and behaviors that directly affect their slumber and teach new ways to achieve a better night’s rest.

“There are personal coaches for so many important aspects of our lives – from fitness and nutrition to life and careers,” said David Dickinson, president and CEO of Zeo Inc. “The one glaring area without the aid of a coach is sleep. Yet sleep is a fundamental piece of achieving overall health and wellness.”

So why bother leaving the house if you can have on right under your own roof. Improve and remedy those sleep problems with Zeo. It is now available for $399 and includes six months of personalized online coaching. Consumers can purchase additional six-month installments of sleep coaching for $99.

This is not affiliated with Sleepzine.

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