Sentences with phrase «fewer hours of sleep at»

For instance: they're that broke; they're single mothers working two jobs and lucky to squeeze in a few hours of sleep at night; they make lunches but have already left for work in the morning and aren't around to make sure that they get out the door (just to toss out a few).

On a good night, she gets a few hours of sleep at a time, and she finds encouragement through an online support group.

Not exact matches

The bright side is that I do not have to wake up at 5:30 am and get few more hours of sleep.

Allegations of hit men turning up at night to pressure a former Caltex worker to keep his mouth shut, then sending someone to visit his family in Pakistan, some workers paid $ 12 an hour, some sleeping on mattresses to reduce travel time, some franchisees charging workers for sponsorships, are just a few of the allegations being made by workers and former workers.

Mike would work until 3 a.m., grab a few hours of sleep and then rise at seven to hector his children — Rita and Phillip, then later the much younger Tami and Andre — through an hour of tennis practice on the courts of the Frontier or the Tropicana before school.

Trying to get out of the house or just grabbing a few hours of sleep requires being constantly aware of when he last ate, when he'll be hungry again, and if I need to encourage him to eat more frequently so he'll sleep better at night.

After looking at more than 60 studies of kids ages 5 — 17, the team found that over 90 % of them showed that «more screen time is associated with delayed bedtimes, fewer hours of sleep and poorer sleep quality.»

To make sure you get a good night's sleep there are a few changes you can make, whether it is choosing from a selection of mattresses or solid oak beds, or even just making sure you go to bed at an earlier hour.

A quick fifteen minutes of napping can certainly help recharge your batteries and improve your cognitive functions for the next few hours at least, but fall into a deeper sleep that lasts beyond that golden twenty - minutes, and you could conceivably end up feeling worse rather than better.

The feeding schedule around this time will be every 3 — 4 hours on average, allowing mom to have a few more minutes of sleep at night.

My 6 month old has recently started to wake everynight around 1 -30-2.00, i try a few things to settle her before i offer a bottle, But sometimes even after a bottle she is still wide awake and will stay like this for a couple of hours with me literally having to just sit there awake andnleave her in her cot to talk to herself play with her dummy or cry... I am at the breaking point i need sleep... do nt get me wrong this is what being a parent is all about but its a shock to my system after her sleeping throughbfor a couplr of.montjs rarely waking... Need opinions and advice for the in the middle of the night feed, because so many people have told me i shouldnt be giving a bottle and at 6 months shr shouldnt berd a bottle at that time and i should just leave her??? I do nt know what to do... Please help??

During a critical phase of a project at work, for months I would use alarms to wake myself up in the middle of the night after few hours of sleep.

Alex is now over 7 weeks old, he is feeding every 2 hours during the day but is capable of doing 6 hour stretches of sleep at night and has for the last few nights only been having one night feed.

Sure, they sleep around 18 hours a day, but between the diaper change, feeding, and burping you're looking at a few hours of sleep in between.

My son does some of his most focused eating at night especially in the fist few hours of sleep and last few hours of sleep.

Let's assume that your baby is at least 4 - 6 months old, follows something of a daily routine, and sleeps at least a few hours at night.

I only breastfed for a few months, I fed on a schedule, my children slept 8 - 10 hours a night at 3 and 4 weeks old and no child of mine ever slept in the bed that I make love to my husband in.

That way you are getting at least a few straight hours of sleep.

Our observations of reduced fever at 1 month and reduced stuffy nose at 6 months associated with nonprone sleep positions are consistent with this hypothesis, as is the reported observation that adults with upper respiratory tract infections have lower nasal bacterial counts after lying supine for 1 hour vs lying prone for 1 hour.11 Also, infants sleeping supine swallow more frequently than infants sleeping prone in response to a pharyngeal fluid stimulus, suggesting more effective clearing of nasopharyngeal secretions in the supine position and, hence, less potential for eustachian tube obstruction and fewer ear infections.12

Also, you can ask your partner to take care of the baby for a few hours at night and over the weekend so that you can get some sleep.

You can just sit around and nurse and watch TV in the evening and hope to get a few extra hours of sleep at night.]

I didn't hear any of it, was both appalled at CIO on a 4 month old baby, and thrilled to have a few hours of solid sleep.

It came in more than abundantly with OK who I pumped religiously around the clock every two hours for, it came in a tiny bit, but not much, with the singleton who was also way too early to attempt to save, and it came in even more abundantly than for OK with MK, even though I only pumped ever three hours and made sure I got at least one six hour stretch of sleep a night, and my worst oversupply problem of all of them was with YK, who I only pumped those first few days a handful of times when I felt up to it.

Plus, we were so accustomed to getting up throughout the night to feed him that our bodies weren't even capable of sleeping more than a few hours at a time.

In fact, during the first few weeks of life, a newborn will spend the majority of her days and nights sleeping (though it may not seem like she's sleeping very much at night), waking every few hours to eat or to have a diaper change.

Finally, for all new moms — but especially for moms of preemies — it's crucial to get uninterrupted sleep for at least a few hours every night, breaks to recharge yourself during the week, good nutrition to support your physical and emotional recovery, and emotional support from those around you.

Sleep: During the first 24 hours of life outside the womb, your baby will take a decent nap for a few hours at around 6 hours of age.

And remember how thrilled I was that the flax seed oil supplements I took made El Pequeño sleep for 7 hours at a stretch during his first few months of life?

At 2 months of age, she is now waking up only 2 times a night (on average), and has had a few nights of sleeping 6 hours or more in a row.

* Note: The two sets of numbers don't always add up because children who take longer naps tend to sleep fewer hours at night and vice versa.

And baby can be well attended to by a Grandma or other loving caregiver while parents snuggle and have some relaxing pillow talk without worrying it will wake the baby before getting a few solid hours of sleep at the SAME time.

Fortunately, within a few weeks, most babies get wise to the idea that they're supposed to do the bulk of their sleeping at night (even if it's in three - or four - hour stretches).

Of more than five dozen studies looking at youths ages 5 to 17 from around the world, 90 percent have found that more screen time is associated with delayed bedtimes, fewer hours of sleep and poorer sleep quality, the authors reporOf more than five dozen studies looking at youths ages 5 to 17 from around the world, 90 percent have found that more screen time is associated with delayed bedtimes, fewer hours of sleep and poorer sleep quality, the authors reporof sleep and poorer sleep quality, the authors report.

Try to get to bed and wake up at approximately the same time every day; avoid large meals and physical activity such as dancing within a few hours of bedtime; and make your bedroom a sleep sanctuary, free from TV or other distractions, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Sleep: Clocking fewer than six hours a night left people four times as likely to get sick when exposed to a cold virus as those who got at least seven hours of slumber, per a 2015 study.

Take a few days of rest every 10 - 12 weeks, sleep at least 8 hours per night, train hard and smart and you'll be well on your way to getting huge legs.

In his book At Day's Close: Night in Times Past, A. Roger Ekirch explains that historically humans slept in two shifts: one for a few hours when the sun went down, and another from the early hours of the morning until dawn.

I needed these few hours of sleep and was very frustrated until I realized that I'd had caffeine at lunch.

A few other things have helped improve my sleep experience: — no electronics at least 1 hour before bed, including TV — amber goggles after nightfall — 500 mg of magnesium half an hour before bed — 20 - minute epsom salt baths — guided meditation for relaxation just before sleeping — bedroom cooled to 65F or lower — blackout curtains — eye mask

But while getting a few more hours of sleep won't cure chronic fatigue, that doesn't mean there's nothing at all you can do about feelings of exhaustion.

So if your bed is calling your name at 9 p.m. and your partner wants to stay up to watch Game of Thrones, instead of resenting them, relish in the fact that this could mean a few hours of uninterrupted, quality sleep.

Either by self - selection or because of the sedentary lives we have that require sitting 8 hours a day at work, plus an average of 4 more at home we're trying to balance 23 hours of sitting and sleeping with 30 - 60 minutes of exercise a few times a week.

She would wake up at 3 in the morning, go to her first job as a baker for a few hours, come home to send us off to school, sleep, greet us when we got back, then head out for her second job in retail for the rest of the night.

I didn't sleep at all the night of the Adobe shoot, and I only slept a few hours per night for the rest of the week.

But for those of us actually working the booths, it's a lot more standing than walking, and the smiles get to feeling forced by eleven in the morning and there's still at least twelve more hours of smiling before the day ends and you get to sleep a few hours to prepare for the next morning's hangover and hard work.

To catch a few hours of sleep before my flight, I booked a room at the new See you in Iran hostel.

I can't stress enough how lovely it would be to leave work on a Monday or Tuesday evening and be able to spend some unrushed time in front of artwork, have a few glasses of wine and conversations, and then head home to sleep at a respectable weekday hour.

The addition of 12 new studies to this review enabled the conduct of meta - analyses of a range of physical (for example, weight, length, head circumference, mid-thigh or leg circumference, salivary cortisol, sleep duration, mean increase in 24 - hour sleep, crying or fussing time, bilirubin), mental (for example, parental stress, infant attachment, parent - infant interaction etc) and developmental (for example, temperament; physical and mental development) outcomes, of which very few achieved statistical significance, or statistical significance was lost at follow - up or following sensitivity analyses.

And on that cheery note... I'm signing off to pay a few of the bills that have been piling up on my kitchen counter — beside the groceries I still haven't put away from yesterday's supermarket shop — before I ice 24 reindeer cupcakes for a school band fundraiser tonight, while feeling guilty about how long it's been since I took the dogs for a walk... all on five hours sleep... bloody garbage trucks at 4.30 am.

Disembarking with hand luggage, we cleared immigration, then were herded into a gate lounge before boarding the same plane, sitting in the same seat, with the same crew (stifling a few yawns) on the 2.5 hour hop to Beijing... and were served another Groundhog Day breakfast — this time at 35,000 feet, while I tried not to think about the pilots» lack of sleep as we ascended and then descended into a relatively smog - free Beijing.