New research from Japan has suggested that women who get more sleep are more likely to conceive a baby, over those who have trouble sleeping.
Researchers in Hanabusa clinic in Kobe, Japan, conducted studies to find a link between sleep patterns and pregnancy. They surveyed 208 women and asked them questions about their sleeping habits.
They were asked a variety of questions about how much sleep they get on average, whether they need to take sleeping tablets and how much alcohol they consume.
The researchers then broke them into groups according to their sleep patterns, ranging from no sleep difficulty to mild difficulty and finally severe difficulty.
They then took eggs from all the women and conducted fertilisation exams within a laboratory. The women's eggs from the 'no sleep difficulty' group were fertilised 62.9 percent of the time, while the fertilisation success rate for the women in the 'mild difficulty' group dropped to 57.1 percent. Finally, the last group's eggs were only fertilised 48.4 percent.
According to
The Daily Mail, one of the researchers commented saying:
"Good sleep patterns can be one of the important daily habits for patients to improve their response to fertility treatments and increase their chances of pregnancy."
Interestingly, alcohol consumption had a positive effect on fertilisation.
