The data to show mamas need more time in bed than you think!

My pregnancy, birth, and postpartum recovery data from Oura 💫

I used Oura to track sleep through my pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Tracking like this taught me a lot!

First, I learned I needed 12+ hours in bed each day in the first trimester in order to have good sleep and readiness scores.

It seemed that I could either do one extended sleep, or I could do a normal 8-9 hour sleep and take a late morning/ early afternoon nap to get the total.

If I did either of those sleep patterns, my scores would stay pretty high.

More importantly, I wouldn’t feel as nauseous or tired on those days!

But if I pushed myself to be “normal” and only get 7-10 hours of sleep, everything got worse.

Next, I learned third trimester sleep interruptions are significant!

But since I had already learned so much in the first trimester about how important it was to stay in bed as long as I felt like I needed, these sleep interruptions weren’t as unpleasant as they might seem.

Actually, since this was my fourth baby, I really enjoyed all these middle of the night wakings to en…