New Mothers Should Sleep More for Weight Loss
December 25, 2007
I guess it should come as no surprise, but new mothers should sleep more to get rid of the access pounds they gained during pregnancy. I read this article on Snoozester and thought it was very interesting. There has been a lot of hub bub about sleep and helping us keep off the pounds, but I don’t think many new mom’s think about this after the birth of their new baby. Most mom’s love getting up and breast feeding their new born, I know my wife did. I think it helps with the bonding of the baby.
The article came from a Sidney News Paper article that found researchers had found that new mothers needed more sleep to shed the weight from the pregnancy. Gunderson and colleagues studied 940 women taking part in a study of prenatal and postnatal health at Harvard Medical School in Boston. “The women who slept five hours or less a night when their babies were six months old were more likely to have kept on 5 kilograms of weight one year after giving birth, they found.” So the guys need to step up and help the mom’s get the sleep. Mom’s, you could help by expressing your milk for the nighttime feedings and let the guys get up. But what do you think?
Oh yeah this is very interesting to know…thank you for sharing..and you are right a lot of mothers neglect their weight after giving birth.
Leptin and ghrelin are the hormones that play a role in weight loss or weight gain. Leptin helps in controlling our appetite while ghrelin helps in stimulating our appetite.
When we don’t get enough sleep, it will be a disaster to our body. When we have lack of sleep, our body responds to it and produces more ghrelin hormone which is appetite inducing. Therefore, not only our sleep affects but our appetite will also be increased.