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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2021-10-01
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| Series: | Evolutionary Psychology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/14747049211046162 |