Pandemic pros, cons

NEW research has found infants have slept longer while parents have experienced less daytime drowsiness due to lockdowns and working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic.

According to the study led by Flinders University, infants had an extra 40 minutes of objectively measured sleep per night.

It also revealed the pandemic led to babies spending an additional 18 minutes a day in front of screens and increased depressive symptoms in their parents.

The research, published in Sleep Medicine, involved more than 1500 United States infants aged 1-18 months.