The Mother–Offspring Conflict: The Association Between Maternal Sleep, Postpartum Depression, and Interbirth Interval Length

To test the hypothesis that infant night waking is an adaptation to increase interbirth intervals (IBIs) (i.e., the time between a mother’s consecutive births) by exhausting the mother, we made an initial attempt at investigating whether maternal sleep disturbance is associated with longer IBIs. We...

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Main Authors: Annika Gunst, Elin Sjöström, My Sundén, Jan Antfolk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2021-10-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/14747049211046162