Go to Sleep Mom!

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But a lot of the typical sleep advice is about improving your sleeping environment and calming yourself before bed.

This is advice that my good friend Danielle shared with me years ago — and it’s a practical approach to helping me find balance even to this day!It's connected to poor performance at work, obesity, diabetes, excessive risk-taking behavior, and heart disease. The miracle of birth may be miraculous, but it also wreaks havoc on your hormones and throws everything off balance. During sleep, they are often active, twitching their arms and legs, smiling, sucking and generally appearing restless. Sleep problems are common, and the reasons we struggle to sleep are likely to change throughout our lives, for instance, illness, work or having a baby are possible causes.

The negative impact of being a mom on your quality of sleep starts before your baby is born (sleeping with the compressed bladder and beach ball belly of pregnancy isn't easy) and can last well beyond kindergarten. Parents go through a lot of changes in a short span of time, and your mind will need to process it all.

Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. Finding time can be challenging, but experts recommend that you should try and take a nap when the baby is sleeping. Good sleep habits, such as going to bed and getting up at the same time every day, can really help us to get better sleep. Personally, I'm up for the challenge, but I'm not so sure about how dear ole' dad will react to this if he somehow happens to find out about what's going on between me and his estranged wife.

Children waking up at night aren't the only reason for all of those sleep-deprived mothers shuffling through life.Unless you had a home birth, one of the luxuries you probably looked forward to most in the hospital was coming home to sleep in your own bed without nurses, noise, and bright hospital lights to keep you awake. A few sleepless nights are usually nothing to worry about, but it can become an issue if a lack of sleep starts to affect your daily life. However, if you try some of the techniques mentioned in this article, you can find relief within one night.