Hospitals are too loud, and patients sleep could be suffering because of it, suggests a new study.
According to World Health Organization recommendations, noise in hospital rooms generally shouldnt get above 30 to 40 decibels. But researchers at one hospital reported that the average noise level in patients rooms was close to 50 decibels, and sometimes spiked as high as 80 decibels – almost as loud as a chainsaw, they said.
The hospital environment is certainly not a restful environment, said Dr. Vineet Arora, from the University of Chicago.
In a study of about 100 adult patients at their medical center, she and her colleagues found that noise levels in patients rooms at night tended to be lower than during the day, but almost always exceeded recommendations for average and maximum noise level.
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Hospital Rooms, Sleep
One of the most frightening things for a parent is to be listening to your baby sleeping blissfully via the baby monitor, and then hear it just stop altogether.
You expect the breathing to pick back up right away, but it doesnt. In fact, it can take as much as 15 seconds before your baby starts breathing again. In parent years, that seems like an eternity. Those can be the 15 scariest seconds of your parenthood.
The good news is that your babys little pause is fairly common. In fact, doctors have even come up with a name for this phenomenon: Periodic Breathing. Periodic breathing is just something that happens up until about 6 months of age.
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Sleep
The best time to figure to figure out how and when you are going to get some sleep with a newborn baby is before the baby is actually born. Hopefully you’re reading this while baby is still on the way. But, even if your baby has already come and is already treating you to sleepless nights, you still have time to adjust your habits to prevent yourself from becoming exhausted.
Here are a couple of basic, virtually unchangeable facts:
- Your baby can’t sleep through the night, and won’t be able to until she is at least 4 months old, usually longer. That’
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Sleep, Sleep Strategies