Abstract
Doctors Sharma and Franco are with the Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis. Please address correspondence to Sunil Sharma, MD, FCCP, Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, 9200 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53226-3596; e-mail ssharma2@ mcw.edu. INTRODUCTION By their third trimester of pregnancy, 97% of women report sleep disturbance. Sleep can be altered during pregnancy due to several reasons, including mechanical and hormonal. The importance of quality sleep and the negative impact of sleep disturbances in pregnancy are under-recognized by both patients and physicians. This is in part due to limited literature on this topic. The true incidence of sleep disorders in pregnancy is not known; however, due to growing awareness of the importance of sleep and sleep disorders in pregnancy, “Pregnancy Associated Sleep Disorders” is now recognized as a distinct clinical entity in the international classification of sleep disorders. In this review we will present a consolidated literature review on sleep changes in pregnancy and sleep disorders that may develop or be worsened in pregnancy.
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