Sleep issues may be tied to delivering babies prematurely, reports Global News Canada.
Compared with women who didn’t have sleep problems, women with insomnia were 30 per cent more likely to have a premature baby. The odds for women with sleep apnea were 50 per cent higher, the study found. A preterm birth was considered any baby born before the mother was 37 weeks pregnant.
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This is why the book GROWING A HEALTHY CHILD, SECRETS FROM A WISE OLD DOC, states that any woman of child bearing age needs to correct any sleep issues. This certainly needs to be done in the earliest known time of pregnancy if not done before.
Screening women of child bearing age or in the earliest stages for insomnia or any sleep disorder is so very important.
Insomnia is a bigger problem as it has a less chance of diagnosis and treatment success than obstructive sleep apnea.
Traditional treatment for insomnia is often unsuccessful.
A person with insomnia often has a lower jaw sitting too far back in the joint space. This pinches nerves that upset the nervous system, making relaxation and sleep difficult.
The pinched nerves often cause no symptoms recognised by the person or dentist, and go untreated. This is why most treatments for insomnia fail. The treatments are not treating the real cause of the insomnia.
Fitting any of the oral appliances designed to treat sleep apnea will support the lower jaw in a position that allows relaxation of the nervous system and more normal sleep. This appliance is worn all night every night. A greatly improved sleep is the usual result. Now we can have an improved result with the pregnancy.
Of course the usual sleep hygiene guidelines are important as well. However, if there is a lower jaw sitting too far back, no matter how well healthy sleep guidelines are followed,insomnia will likely result.