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| Mandie and husband Nick with their children Honor (left) and Pearl (right). Mandie thinks she must be more tired than her husband because she's been up every night looking after their baby |
The
argument has been raging between married couples for generations. Who is
the most tired? With sleep a valuable commodity in most relationships,
particularly those with young children, it seems men and women will
never agree.
The female claim to the ‘most exhausted’ crown
was bolstered this week by research which revealed that, over a year,
women get 15 days less sleep than they need, compared to the male
deficit of ten days. To settle the argument, we challenged three couples
to log their waking and sleeping hours using a Jawbone, an interactive
wristband that monitors wearers’ steps taken and quality of sleep.
It also
gives a figure for ‘total active time’ — moving and doing physical work,
rather than sitting down.
The couples:
Here, the couples say how hard they think
they work before each takes the Jawbone test. The results may surprise
you . . .
Mandie
Gower, 38, a magazine editor, and her husband, Nick Goodchild, 38, a
company director, pictured above, live in South London. They have two
children, Honor, ten months, and Pearl, three.