Not exact matches
Typically, the obstruction is terminated by an arousalthat is, the snorer briefly wakes up —
leading to
fragmented, less restful
sleep.
What's more, eating late at night can
lead to
fragmented sleep, while loading up on foods high in artery - clogging saturated fat might mess with your body's natural
sleep - wake cycle.
You may think you're effectively chipping away at
sleep debt with those little bits and pieces of «
sleep,» but you're really just
fragmenting your
sleep (PDF), which
leads to «sleepiness - related daytime impairment,» compulsory afternoon caffeine infusions, and less productivity.
How a parent settles their child to
sleep and responds to night waking is key to development and thus management of behavioural
sleep problems.2 A «coercion trap» can occur whereby a parent rocks their child to
sleep, their child wakes some hours later and calls out, the parent returns to rock their child, the child goes back to
sleep (thereby reinforcing the parent's response) but wakes again and wants to be rocked.1 This can
lead to parental fatigue and depression as well as inadequate and
fragmented sleep for the child.3, 4