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If your baby turns into an entirely different creature every evening between 5 and 10pm, you've met the witching hour. It's a predictable stretch of evening fussiness, and I want to say clearly: this is common, it's normal, and it is not a reflection of anything you're doing wrong.

Before you close this tab, do me one favor. Open your email and send a quick note to HR. I wrote it for you, it's down below. So many families have money set aside for postpartum support and never touch it because they don't know it's there. Some employers offer fertility and family building benefits, and depending on the plan, those can help pay for the overnight and daytime care you've been daydreaming about. If you're pregnant, now is a great time to ask. If you're home wi

In-home baby sleep training that fits your baby, not a script. Hybrid coaching, text support, and a plan built around how your family actually lives.

What daytime postpartum doula support actually looks like in Maine & NH: feeding help, recovery care, and an extra set of hands for the fourth trimester.

If you're pregnant, and especially if you're already home with a newborn, you're probably thinking about overnight newborn care. What do you do if baby won't sleep? Are there any tricks to get newborns to sleep at night? Here's the truth about newborn nights. For the purposes of this post, we're using the terms postpartum doula, night nanny, overnight doula, and night nurse interchangeably. What to expect at night with a newborn baby If you're pregnant, this is the stuff I wa

Am I creating a bad habit?" is a question I get constantly, usually about nursing to sleep, rocking, or a pacifier. Here's the truth: a sleep association is simply anything your baby connects with falling asleep. Feeding, rocking, a pacifier, a sound machine, a swaddle, being held, darkness. None of these are good or bad on their own. They're just powerful.

If you've ever hovered over the bassinet convinced your sleeping baby is about to wake up, only for them to settle right back down, you're not imagining things. Newborn sleep looks and sounds very different from adult sleep, and understanding that difference can save you a lot of unnecessary trips into the nursery.

One of the most common things I hear from new parents is some version of: "is this normal?" When it comes to newborn sleep, the answer is almost always yes. Newborns need a lot of sleep, somewhere around 15 to 20 hours in a 24 hour period. But here's the catch: that sleep is broken and unpredictable. In real life, that looks like: Sleep happening in 2 to 4 hour stretches, not long overnight chunks. Day and night being mixed up, especially in the first few weeks. Naps that are

Once babies hit around 6 weeks old, I start talking to my clients about laying down a few sleep habits early. Not sleep training, not letting anyone cry it out, just a handful of small, gentle shifts that make the next several months so much smoother. Will you still need to sleep train or hire a Sleep Consultant? Maybe. But, this is the foundation of sleep that will make the next few months a bit smoother.

A Maine postpartum doula and Newborn Care Specialist explains why she chose to build her practice around postpartum support instead of overnight newborn care, and what that means for families.

A Maine-based doula training that is accessible and open to all!

If you're in the thick of the newborn days right now, I want you to hear this first: your baby's sleep is not broken, and you are doing a great job!

Looking for a birth doula in Maine? Here are the doulas I personally recommend, where they serve, and how to find sliding scale doula support through Community Doulas.