Being new mothers and fathers generates changes, you sleep less. Study determined that the sleep lost after the first baby will take them more than six years to recover it
When you are a mother or father for the first time, you enter a stage of many changes and without a doubt the most significant is that you no longer sleep the same, but how long does it take for mothers to regain lost sleep?
The baby makes your routine change and you will have to adapt to their sleep cycles. Given this, a study has been able to determine that parents regain lost sleep for up to 6 years.
Researchers in charge of the sleep study analyzed 2,541 mothers and 2,118 fathers of German origin observing them between 2008 and 2015 after their first child, second or third child and provided longitudinal data for the analysis.
Fixed-effect regression models were used to analyze changes in sleep associated with delivery.
The result of the investigation showed that in both women and men, satisfaction and duration of sleep did not fully recover until 6 years after the birth of their first child.
It is said in the study that 15 minutes less is what fathers sleep during the first three months and after six years mothers slept 20 minutes less and fathers still lacked their 15 minutes.
And if the mother was the most affected, breastfeeding was associated with a slight decrease in maternal satisfaction with sleep.
Parental age, household income, and dual parenthood versus single parents were unrelated, or very little, with improved sleep.
Perhaps after the second baby it can be said that they are a little more used to it, so definitely being a mother and first-time parents generates some suffering in adaptation.
You have to know that this is a change with a great reward and yes a lot of sacrifice, but you have to be patient since the lost sleep will only take about six years to recover.