Do you want your child to feel comfortable going to sleep?
Jami Kent a mother and and sleep consultant (Slumbering Baby) is joining Allison Rollans of High Country Doulas to speak to parents about fostering healthier relationships through sleep. Jami and her husband are raising 4 children together and they know the value and importance of their relationship as the parents. They took time with each other (Yes, away from children) and spent time helping their children establish healthy sleep early on.
Listen to Jami's expertise on the role parents' play in helping their child create a positive relationship with sleep. While Allison Rollans shares her insights on why it's important to communicate with your partner, trust in their ability to parent, & know how to connect with support when you need it most.
How can nighttime (restorative sleep) bring happier days??
Teaching parents how their babies show signs they are overtired and how that negatively impacts their overall sleep. We know that babies need sleep to grow and thrive. When it comes to nap time and bedtime, parents can exhaust themselves with endless hours that they don't get to have for themselves. We can also accidentally reinforce certain behaviors that can impact your child's relationship with sleep. We know how important sleep is to mothers' postpartum recovery and mental health.
"Mothers who do not receive training on how to soothe their baby are two times more likely to experience postpartum depression." -----------US New and World Report, 2006.
Family sleep problems can negatively affect the parent to parent relationship.
"Life events such as the transition to parenthood... are known to cause sleep impairments and precipitous declines in marital quality"———————-Marital quality and the marital bed: Examining the covariation between relationship quality and sleep Sleep Med Rev. 2007 Oct; 11(5): 389–404.
Poor sleep and maternal mental health are connected.
"Poor sleep is considered to be a risk factor for depression. Another study also showed that because infants’ sleep patterns tend to follow maternal circadian rhythms, the infants of depressed mothers may also experience poor sleep quality, which may further exacerbate maternal depressive symptoms.9"—————————Postpartum Depression and Poor Sleep Quality Occur Together; By MGH Center for Women's Mental Health|June 6th, 2011|Postpartum Psychiatric Disorders.
Learn ways to establish and value everyone's sleep.
Research shows postpartum depression can increase stress in the parent to parent relationship and sometimes partners experience similar mental health struggles.----------------Men's experience of their partners' postpartum psychiatric disorders: narratives from the internet Mental Health Fam Med. 2011 Sep; 8(3): 137–146.
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