Do you secretly suspect your husband of pretending to be asleep when your baby cries at night? Do you think he is just trying to escape from what is supposed to be a shared responsibility?
A recent study tells us that he may really be sleeping after all.
Researchers from MindLab, as commissioned by a British manufacturer of cold and flu tablets, wanted to find out what could disturb men and women in slumber, in an effort to decode “a good night’s sleep”.
According to the study, women are most likely to wake up at the sound of a baby’s cries. Interestingly, men are sure to jolt out of their sleep when they hear the sound of a car alarm. Researchers conclude that the differing sensitivities of men and women to sounds during sleep may be primarily due to the fact that they are wired differently.
Dr David Lewis of MindLab shared, “These differing sensitivities may represent evolutionary differences that make women sensitive to sounds associated with a potential threat to their children while men are more finely tuned to disturbances posing a possible threat to the whole family.”
See the top 10 things that disturb men’s and women’s sleep on the next page.
Top 10 sounds most likely to wake men from their sleep:
- Car alarm
- Howling wind
- Buzzing fly
- Snoring
- Noise from drains
- Crickets chirruping
- Sirens
- Clock ticking
- Drilling/workmen
- Dripping tap
Top 10 sounds most likely to wake men from their sleep:
- Baby crying
- Dripping tap
- Rowdiness
- Snoring
- Buzzing fly
- Drilling/workmen
- Sirens
- Car alarm
- Howling wind
- Noise from drains.
So the next time your husband goes on snoring when it’s his turn to check on the baby, you may want to keep this in mind and just wake him up. Or, you could try playing any of the sounds on his top ten list!
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