As a double board-certified doctor in Sleep Medicine and Psychiatry, I thought I understood sleep completely. Then I experienced pregnancy and postpartum myself and realized how little attention we actually pay to women's unique sleep needs.

Women routinely receive generic sleep advice that ignores how hormones, menstrual cycles, and major life transitions affect sleep. Despite clear research linking women's hormones to sleep quality, most women never learn these connections.

Too often the sleep challenges go untreated and women are told their insomnia is "just stress," that restless nights during pregnancy are "a part of being pregnant," or that frequent night wakings are "normal aging" when there are specific and treatable causes.

I built Sleep for Women because highly effective solutions for women’s sleep exist, but they’re not reaching women due to a flawed system which leaves women undiagnosed, misdiagnosed, and mistreated.

Every woman deserves sleep solutions that work for her body and stage of life!

Professional background:

Dr. Oehlke completed her undergraduate training at Cornell University in Biology and Society graduating number one in her major and with magna cum laude honors.

She finished her medical school training at Albany Medical College graduating with honors.

She and subsequently pursued a psychiatry residency at the University of Vermont Medical Center where she served as Chief Resident and discovered a passion for the intricate connection between sleep and mental health.

She completed her Sleep Medicine Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania and has been practicing sleep medicine since then.

Dr. Oehlke has written a book chapter on insomnia and is published in the insomnia literature and taught at the University of Vermont Medical Center as well as the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. She has presented at sleep conferences on sleep and mental health.

In her free time, Dr. Oehlke enjoys spending time with her husband, their two daughters and dogs as well as being outdoors. She is an avid runner and has completed five Boston Marathons.