Abstract
A 2014 study [1] highlights the fact that children who do not get
sufficient sleep run a higher risk of becoming overweight or even
obese within a year and also demonstrates a connection between
maternal employment status and a child’s weight over time.Children with full-time working mothers were seen to sleep
fewer hours than their peers whose mothers worked less than 20
hours per week. Children of full time working mothers also tended
to have higher BMIs at the second weigh-in. Results of the above
study demonstrated that just 18% of pre-school aged children were
getting 11-13 hours of sleep per night and were, on average, getting
about 9.6 hours of sleep at night. The study has also shown that each
extra hour of sleep at night that a child obtained was associated
with a 6.8% decrease in their BMI at the second weigh-in. Other
factors from research that have been found to be associated with
shorter infant sleeping patterns include maternal depression
during pregnancy, the introduction of solid foods before the age of
4 months and infant TV viewing [2].
The Importance of Sleep in the Early Years by Helen Clark MA in BJSTR
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