You don?t have to settle for crappy pregnancy sleep
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Five months into her pregnancy, Danielle Boudreau?s legs started bothering her at night. ?I?d wake up with an urgent need to move them and have to get up, walk around and almost have to kick something to make it stop,? says Boudreau, who lives in Halifax. ?That combined with other pregnancy issues like heartburn and having to pee constantly made me a sleepless mess. But my doctor said it was normal and didn?t have any practical advice on how to get rid of it.?
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You?re having a baby?subscribe to our Today?s Parent Pregnancy by Week newsletter! In fact, Boudreau was experiencing restless leg syndrome, which affects as much as a quarter of pregnant women and can safely be treated during pregnancy. But few mothers-to-be seek help for their sleep problems. ?I get the sense that a lot of obstetricians perceive sleep deprivation in pregnancy as normal,? says Leslie Swanson, a sleep specialist at the University of Michigan. ?So we tend to minimize the effects of sleep disruption or insomnia during the prenatal period.? But we should be doing more, says Swanson.
Why it?s hard to sleep
More than half of pregnant women experience insomnia, because pregnancy creates ?the perfect storm for it,? says Swanson. Start with the fact th...
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