Can we facilitate this for each other?
Or at least, for new mothers who are caring for their babies around the clock?
Just here to encourage all the new mamas to worry less about sleep overnight, and to nap more.
Circadian health research is validating the old-fashioned advice to “sleep when your baby sleeps.”
But it feels impossible to so many of us.
Why?
because our bodies no longer feel the need to sleep.
The modern environment full of artificial lights and isolated from natural light with newfangled thermal & UV-blocking windows has made that advice feel nearly impossible to follow.
We just get ever-more wired-but-tired, even to the point that many new mothers (as well as the population at large) have diagnosable sleep disorders.
And when I bring this up, there are also many who just dismiss this because they “can’t.”
What would it look like to re-integrate napping in today’s world?
In non-industrialized areas, people sleep less, sleep less efficiently, and nap more.
Yet they show more robust circadian health!
I wrote about this earlier this year:
And what I know to be true is that even if we are living in …
