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. 2013 Mar 20;346:f1164. doi: 10.1136/bmj.f1164

Table 3.

 Maternal sleep and subjective sleep disturbance outcomes at 6 and 12 weeks in primiparous women and their infants randomised to sleep intervention or usual care. Figures are medians (interquartile range)

Sleep intervention* Usual care†
Nocturnal sleep (minutes):
 6 weeks 397 (362-428) 387 (359-424)
 12 weeks 440 (402-469) 431 (396-468)
Longest stretch of nocturnal sleep (minutes):
 6 weeks 144 (114-174) 136 (114-167)
 12 weeks 153 (125-208) 155 (122-192)
No of night awakenings:
 6 weeks 8.8 (6.8-11.5) 9.3 (6.9-11.3)
 12 weeks 9.3 (5.5-12.0) 9.0 (6.7-12.0)
Daytime sleep (minutes):
 6 weeks 34 (15-70) 45 (24-72)
 12 weeks 32 (6.7-67) 35 (15-64)

*n=109 at 6 weeks and 103 at 12 weeks.

†n=103 at 6 weeks and 102 at 12 weeks.