Sleeping Better in Pregnancy: A guide to sleep heath [Paperback]

Get the best sleep in pregnancy to enhance the health and wellbeing of you and your baby. The challenge to getting a good nights sleep is especially hard for pregnant women. This book, based on the latest research from Massey Universitys Sleep/Wake Research Centre, includes up-to-date information about why sleep is important, how sleep works, and the different lifestyle and pregnancy changes that can affect your sleep. It also provides practical strategies to help you get the best sleep possible in each trimester.

Get the best sleep in pregnancy to enhance the health and wellbeing of you and your baby

I could cope so much better if I could just get a good nights sleep. This regularly repeated phrase from friends and mothers far and wide (as well as herself) is what prompted Clare Ladyman into the field of sleep science. Clares PhD looked at how sleep and mental health are related throughout the pregnancy and postnatal periods, and how providing information on sleep can help reduce the likelihood of mothers experiencing depression. She completed her research studies at the Sleep/Wake Research Centre, Massey University, Wellington, and now lives in Perth, Western Australia, with her husband and two teenage boys (who finally now sleep&? a lot).