Description: The director of the Sleep Disorder Center at NYU Medical Center and spokesperson for the 1998 National Sleep Foundation's Survey on Women and Sleep pens a guide with new and vital information for all those exhausted women who are looking to overcome sleep problems. Conditions unique to females rob 56% of women of a good night's sleep, e.g., the mother of a newborn loses 700 hours of sleep the baby's first year. Learn how to cultivate healthy sleep at each stage of life. Find out how sleep medications affect women, especially older women; which sleep aids are most effective (both prescription and over-the-counter, including herbal); what to do to combat sleep problems caused by depression and anxiety; and how the fundamental biology of female sleep relates to sleep problems.

Women have a difficult enough time balancing family and career. A good night's sleep is not a luxury they can afford to give up. This guide translates the various scientific findings into easy-to-understand and easy-to-implement lessons. Women will learn what "normal" sleep is, when there's a problem, and what they can do to combat it. This book will be the classic guidebook to a good night's sleep that every woman, no matter what her age, will want to own.

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