Associations between Maternal Sleep Quality Throughout Pregnancy and Newborn Birth Weight.
Conclusions: The BW z-scores of female newborns decreased as maternal sleep quality in the first and third trimesters worsened. This finding suggests that sleep during pregnancy may influence fetal weight in a trimester- and gender-specific manner.
PMID: 31830816 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Behavioral Sleep Medicine - Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Liu H, Li H, Li C, Chen L, Zhang C, Liu Z, Wu Y, Huang H Tags: Behav Sleep Med Source Type: research