Mothers today manage only three and a half hours’ sleep a night – half the quantity their parents had – because they cannot settle their baby to sleep, according to research.
Half of adult women say sleep deprivation has put their relationship under strain, with one in 10 almost splitting from their partner as a result of the problems it causes.
The survey of 3,000 mothers, for Mother & Baby magazine, says that as a result of lack of sleep, mothers who return to work when their children are very young are “shattered”.
Today’s grandmothers say they managed six hours’ sleep a night after having a baby and had plenty of advice on getting an infant to bed. This included leaving it to cry for longer (45 per cent), giving it a dummy (40 per cent), establishing a better regime (26 per cent) and giving up breastfeeding (33 per cent).
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