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Article: SLEEP PROBLEMS MAY BE DISORDER.(AT HOME)
- Article from:
- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- January 13, 2001
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Byline: Steve Infanti
Q: I'm eight months pregnant and having difficulty sleeping. My friends tell me that is normal for pregnant women. Is this true?
A: Your friends may have good intentions but what they are telling you isn't entirely true.
''So many women are told that this is their bodies' way of preparing them for life with a baby, filled with sleepless nights,'' says Jodi Mindell, associate professor of psychology at Saint Joseph's University in Pennsylvania. ''That's just not true. It's important for pregnant women and their health-care providers to realize that many of their issues are significant sleep problems that shouldn't be ignored. Often these are ...