#68 - Perinatal Sleep: Hey, Hey, Baby! (All Night Long)

The perinatal sleep experience is often talked about in less than glowing terms. It's often a situation that is cannot be helped, it simply must be endured.  In this episode, we will:

• Look at the common changes that occur during the pregnancy period, trimester by trimester
• Review the incidence of sleep disturbances in all pregnant individuals
• Contrast the incidence of sleep disturbances in women with psychiatric diagnoses versus women without psychiatric disorders
• Examine how increased sleep as well as decreased sleep during pregnancy can be predictive of depression and psychotic episodes respectively
• Evaluate some common perinatal sleep myths

Episode Written by Maeve Winter

Produced by: Maeve Winter

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Thanks for listening and sleep well!