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How Menopause Affects Sleep
This article is from the WebMD Feature Archive
How Menopause Affects Sleep
A new area of research in sleep medicine focuses on women’s health and how menopause affects sleep. Menopause, regardless of age, is associated with poor sleep quality. These sleep problems are thought to be associated with hormonal function and also with psychological factors.
One study shows shows an association of hot flashes with a shorter amount of time sleeping and a higher incidence of arousals from sleep. Hot flashes that occur during sleep have the ability to affect the quality of sleep adversely by bringing women from a deeper, more restful stage of sleep to a lighter, less restful and restorative stage.
Trouble sleeping? Maybe it’s your iPad
(CNN) — J.D. Moyer decided recently to conduct a little experiment with artificial light and his sleep cycle.
The sleep-deprived Oakland, California, resident had read that strong light — whether it’s beaming down from the sun or up from the screens of personal electronics — can reset a person’s internal sleep clock.
So, for one month, whenever the sun set, he turned off all the gadgets and lights in his house — from the bulb hidden in his refrigerator to his laptop computer.
Baby Sleep Schedules
Does your child sleep like a baby?
If so, that may be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on your idea of what a baby’s sleep schedule should be like.
When you think about a sleeping baby, do you picture a baby sleeping through the night, or a baby that sleeps for just four or five hours and is up crying and wanting to eat?
Berkeley Parents Network: Giving up Naps
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Giving up Naps Berkeley Parents Network > Advice > Sleep > Naps > Giving up Naps Changing from two naps to one
- 8 1/2 month old has stopped taking morning nap
- 11-month-old transitioning to one nap?
- Is 8 month old transitioning to 1 nap?
- From 2 naps to 1 = less total nap time = crabby 19mo
- Is one-year-old ready to give up the morning nap?
- 14-m-o changing to one nap, but it’s too short
- When did your baby shift to one nap?
- Is 18-month-old ready to move to one nap?
- One Nap Hell – 16.5 month old
- 14-mo-old going from two naps to one
- 14-mo-old still wants morning nap, but not afternoon nap
- When do babies give up morning nap?
Giving Up Naps Altogether
- Cut the nap altogether? – almost 3
- 3 year old no longer wants to nap
- Adjusting bedtime when 2.5 year old stops napping
- 3.5 year old not napping I’m 8 months pregnant!!
- Not sure if 3 year old still needs a nap
- Trouble weaning 3-year-old off naps for preschool
- Toddler suddenly won’t take a nap anymore
- 20-month-old Giving Up Nap?
Related Pages
- Naps at Day Care
- Nap Schedule
- More Advice about Naps
8 1/2 month old has stopped taking morning nap Oct 2008
I have an 8 1/2 month old boy who has always had a strange relationships w/naps. My husband and I have basically been slaves for his naps – we’ve taken it really seriously and work hard to make sure he gets them b/c he he has always had trouble w/them. For the first 6 months he seemed to only take them on the go mostly stroller, but sometimes in the car or being held (b/c if you put him down he’d wake up). Around six months we started to be able to get him to nap in the crib (which was a good thing, b/c everything started to wake him up outside)- the times were somewhat irregular, but at least he predictably slept (could be 1/2 hour, could be 2 hours). Lately, around the time he used to nap in the morning (10:30/11) – he might get really drowsy eating his bottle, but when I put him down he almost bounces awake! and then precedes to be busy crawling around in the crib for over half an hour before I give up and let him play on the floor. Today this happened and he didn’t go down till 1pm. He will probably sleep about 1.5 – 2.5 hours now. At night he generally sleeps from 7pm till 7:30am w/1-2 wake-ups for eating – so he gets a lot of sleep at night (at least 12 hours). So the question is: is this okay? should I be trying harder to get him to take that morning nap? is he just ahead of where he is supposed to be developmentally (he’s a big boy for his age and he started crawling pretty early (7.5 months) ? or, like many things w/babies, could this just be a stage and he’ll revert to 2 naps eventually? Thanks for your advice! just want my baby to get his sleep
Eight months seems awfully early to be down to one nap….Have you tried putting him down earlier for the first nap? My son always had a shorter period of time before morning waking and nap #1–around 1-2 hours. He was an early crawler, too (6 months!), and didn’t go down to one nap until almost 18 months. Good Luck I just wanted to share that my niece never really took two naps a day. Even when she was a baby she took one long nap at lunch time. My sister-in-law then gave up on trying to put her on a regular schedule (2 naps a day) and just let her go until lunch time, where she took a long long nap (usually 2 and a half hour). It really sounds like your daughter sleeps so much at night that she probably isn’t tired enough by 10:30am. My niece is still at 5 a very good sleeper, and still takes naps occasionnally. Madeleine Our pediatrician told us that as long as our children were getting 13 hours of sleep per 24 hours, that it was okay. When they slept didn’t matter, so long as our children were getting enough sleep, weren’t too cranky, and weren’t rubbing their eyes from sleepiness. They consolidated their nap times at about 11 mos. and moved to one nap after lunch. Both were rather small girls. Good advice the doctor gave us was to expect them to start waking at night around 10-11 months, due to teething. He urged us to soothe them, but not to feed them, since hunger would not be the problem. If we fed them, their stomachs would keep waking them up, even after teeth came in, and we would be stuck with a big problem. We knew other families who had not been given this hint, and whose babies had real problems sleeping after that. So while we are on the topic of sleep. I thought I’d pass this on, too. Judy Another mother My third had to adjust to only one nap around that age (once he was too big to sleep in the carrier while we were out and about). Just make sure he has as much time as he needs for the nap that comes a little later. Different schedules for different kids 11-month-old transitioning to one nap? June 2008
My son will turn 11 months in a few days. This past week, he’s had 4 out of 5 days where he will only take one nap (after complete exhaustion & possibly in car) or won’t nap at all! He used to go down twice/day with a bottle, but lately that’s not working. We’ve increased his naptime bottles to 8 oz. He seems very sleepy (almost asleep), but once he realizes that bottle is empty, he cries/screams & wakes up. (I’m also worried we’re feeding him too much since we’re giving him so much more formula to try and help him sleep …)
Bumpology: Why can’t my baby sleep when I do? – health
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7 Inventive Ways To Go To Sleep
Our Guest Blogger Christian Hoopes is a freelance writer living in West Jordan, UT. His hobbies include poorly conceived home improvement projects, jogging, and jogging away from poorly conceived home improvement projects. He has two little dogs.
Here’s the article he wrote for InventorSpot.com readers:
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Natural Sleep Remedies and Sleep Medication for Insomnia Relief
Serenity in slumber
The complex nature of the brain can sometimes make the seemingly easy task of falling asleep difficult. For those young and old, sleep is a vital component of health.
It is essential that the time spent in slumber be quality sleep, deep and relaxing – to rejuvenate all body systems for optimum performance, as the brain needs adequate sleep to replenish itself on a cellular level. If this does not happen, we can expect ‘processing’ problems with mood, concentration, memory and thought processes all being affected.
Community-Based Study — Hiscock and Wake 107 (6): 1317 -
Melissa Wake
From the Centre for Community Child Health, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
Objectives. To describe infant sleep patterns and investigate relationships between infant sleep problems and maternal well-being in the community setting.
Healthy Sleep: A Guide to Natural Sleep Remedies
Healthy Sleep 
A Guide to Natural Sleep Remedies Contents Introduction Many of us experience the occasional night of sleeplessness without any consequences. It is when the occasional night here and there becomes a pattern of several nights in a row that you are faced with a sleeping problem. Repeated loss of sleep affects all areas of your life: The physical, the mental, and the emotional. Sleep deprivation can affect your overall daily performance and may even have an effect on your personality.
If your insomnia continues for a long period of time it can cause problems in your relationships, compromise your productivity, and perhaps lead to other health problems. It can become a relentless cycle of worry and anxiety as night after night you toss and turn, wondering when sleep will come, wondering what is wrong with you. Insomnia and sleeplessness generally fall into three categories:
- “Initial” insomnia: where you have difficulty in falling asleep, generally taking 30 minutes or longer to fall into a sleep state.
- “Middle” insomnia: where after falling asleep you have problems maintaining a sleep state, often remaining awake until the early morning hours.
- “Late” or “Terminal” insomnia: where you awake early in the morning after less than 6 hours of sleep.
Insomnia can be the symptom of some medical conditions that may require your doctor’s advice and medical care. In those cases the cause will be treated, not the insomnia. If, however, your sleeplessness is due to a pattern of not sleeping, or because your body and mind find it difficult to settle into a state of relaxation necessary for sleep, this book offers you alternative choices for achieving healthy sleep without the use of prescription drugs. This document will teach you how to:
- Set the mood for a comfortable sleep atmosphere
- Prepare your body for relaxation
- Use colors to stimulate calmness and relaxation
- Understand the importance of exercise
- Use music and other relaxation techniques
- Relieve your mind of anxiety and worry
- Discover the importance of reducing stimulants
- Use herbal teas and warm drinks to promote relaxation
- Use herbs and vitamins to promote natural sleep
After reading this book you will have the information you need to turn your sleepless nights into restful ones, waking in the morning refreshed and alert rather than tired and anxious. All of the techniques and sleep-inducing aids in this book can be applied naturally and easily in your life. Get ready to embark on the journey of falling asleep naturally!
Overview – What Is a Sleep Specialist?
Sleep Specialist Overview
A sleep specialist is a medical doctor who has completed additional education and training in the field of sleep medicine. Sleep medicine focuses on sleep, sleep disorders, and sleep-related conditions, and is a subspecialty within several medical specialties, including neurology, pulmonology, internal medicine, and psychiatry.