Try telling new parents to get more sleep
Why existing sleep solutions are failing new parents?
“Get more sleep.”
This is the frustrating and useless advice every parent hears. It is useless not because you lack the desire, but because your life is defined by inconsistent wake-ups, shifted schedules, and the sheer unpredictability of parenting young children.
You follow the advice when you can, managing precious sleep time around your child’s needs. But the chaotic reality of parenting interferes with your sleep quality, leaving you feeling unrested and foggy, even given “enough” sleep time.
This exposes a fundamental flaw in how sleep health is measured. The sleep industry is obsessed with sleep duration, everything centered around how long you slept. But the reality is that the inconsistent schedule of parenting profoundly disrupts your system. Your internal clock demands a predictable schedule for the complex interplay of hormones and processes to drive adequate functional sleep.
Your energy is failing not because you missed an ideal hour count, but because of a deeper issue, namely the reduced quality of Neural Function of Sleep.
When your sleep is sporadic or inconsistent, pulled between a late night and an early start, or broken into uneven blocks, the quality of that work is compromised. This is why a broken 8 hours feels completely different from a great stretch of five hours. The duration might look sufficient on a tracker, but the true benefit is gone.
At Affectable Sleep, our entire approach is built on this critical distinction. Breaking away from an over-reliance on sleep time, leads us to focus on the processes which drive sleep health, and that help you wake up feeling revitalized and ready for your day.
This is why our work is focused on improving the Neural Function of Sleep. To relieve the sleep related pains experienced daily by parents of young children. Through improving the core function of sleep, without altering sleep time, making every precious minute optimally beneficial, we can resolve both the day-to-day tiredness which is a common challenge for parents, as well as positively impacting their health today and in the future.
Here at Affectable Sleep, we focus on enhancing the vital processes that happen during sleep that support your brain and body to function on the daily. We’ve spent the last 5 years developing neurotechnology to enhance the Neural Function of Sleep without altering sleep time. Affectable Sleep is pioneering a new type of wearable, that goes beyond harvesting our data and showing us pretty graphs, to directly affecting our biology, physiology, and neurophysiology to improve our health in real-time.
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