Sleep Deprivation

Survey findings show parents today get less sleep than parents 30-40 years ago

Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 7th, 2005

From results of a survey by two popular magazines in the U.K., it appears that moms today find it harder to get a good night's sleep, and are getting around 30% less sleep than their own mothers did.

A survey of 2,000 new parents and 2,000 people aged 55 to 65 was carried out by Mother And Baby and Yours magazines and it found that today's parents try all kinds of things to get their babies to sleep through the night, including taking the infant into their own bed.

In contrast, parents in the 1960s and 1970s tended to say their babies had slept peacefully in their own crib.

It seems sleep starvation is a huge problem...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-07-07)

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