Departamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Departamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Sleep Med Clin. 2023 Dec;18(4):499-509. doi: 10.1016/j.jsmc.2023.06.013. Epub 2023 Aug 1.
Our entire life occurs in a constant alternation between wakefulness and sleep. The impossibility of living without sleep implies that any behavior must adapt to the need for sleep, and maternal behavior does not escape from this determination. Additionally, maternal behavior in mammals is a highly motivated behavior, essential for the survival of the offspring. Thus, the mother has to adapt her physiology of sleep to the constant demands of the pups, where each species will have different strategies to merge these two physiological needs. However, all studied female mammals will experience sleep disturbances at some point of the postpartum period.
我们的整个生命都在不断地在觉醒和睡眠之间交替。没有睡眠就无法生存,这意味着任何行为都必须适应睡眠的需要,而母性行为也不例外。此外,哺乳动物的母性行为是一种高度动机的行为,对后代的生存至关重要。因此,母亲必须使自己的睡眠生理适应幼崽不断的需求,而每个物种都会有不同的策略来融合这两种生理需求。然而,所有研究过的雌性哺乳动物在产后的某个阶段都会经历睡眠障碍。