How Sleep Loss Affects Women More Than Men
Sleep deprivation hit Laurel Egan-Kenny hard for years before she realized what was wrong. In the middle of the night, she would wake up worrying about work, finances, and scheduling. Unable to fall back to sleep, she got out of bed and worked on her computer in the kitchen for hours while her husband and three children snoozed soundly upstairs.
Typically, she was logging only five or six hours of sleep a night. The 37-year-old marketing consultant in Marshfield, Massachusetts, says the sleepless nights began after the birth of her youngest child and got worse after she was laid off during her maternity leave and started her own business in late 2007.
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