Doula Talk: Postpartum, Babies and the Battle for Sleep
Doula Talk: Postpartum, Babies and the Battle for Sleep
Podcast Description
Welcome to Doula Talk, where Doula Deb brings compassionate support and real talk to the rollercoaster ride of parenthood. Whether you're navigating the early days of postpartum recovery, soothing your newborn, or wondering if sleep will ever be part of your life again—this podcast has you covered.Join Doula Deb as she shares expert advice, heartfelt stories, and practical tips on everything from postpartum recovery and baby care to creating healthy sleep habits for your little one. With a blend of evidence-based strategies and a nurturing approach, you'll feel empowered to thrive in your parenting journey.Whether you're an expectant parent, a new mom, or deep in the trenches of sleepless nights, Doula Talk will guide you through the ups and downs, providing the knowledge and emotional support you need every step of the way.Tune in for candid conversations, expert interviews, and all the insights you need to embrace this beautiful, challenging, and rewarding season of life.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast covers a range of topics relevant to new and expectant parents, including postpartum recovery, sleep coaching, nutrition during the postpartum period, and the role of doulas. Episodes feature insights on managing sleep regressions, safe sleep strategies for infants, and the importance of building a supportive parenting network, such as discussing the benefits of personalized postpartum doula support and holistic health practices.
Doula Talk is a podcast for parents navigating the real, often messy middle of postpartum and early parenthood.
Hosted by Doula Deb, a birth, postpartum, and sleep doula with over 15 years of experience, this show offers compassionate guidance, honest conversation, and practical support for the first year and beyond. We talk about postpartum recovery, newborn care, sleep, nervous system regulation, and the emotional load that so many parents carry quietly.
This isn’t about quick fixes or perfect routines. It’s about understanding what’s happening beneath the surface and building steady, supportive foundations that help both parents and babies feel more regulated over time.
Through solo episodes and thoughtful conversations with trusted experts, Doula Talk helps you make sense of sleep struggles, feeding questions, recovery, and the constant mental load of early parenthood, without shame, pressure, or panic.
If you’re pregnant, newly postpartum, or deep in the exhaustion of caring for a baby, this is a place to slow down, feel less alone, and remember that you’re not doing this wrong.
If feeding your baby feels stressful, emotional, or overwhelming, this episode is for you.
Many parents are told that feeding struggles mean something is wrong with the bottle, the formula, the schedule, or their technique. But in practice, feeding challenges rarely exist in isolation.
In this episode, Deb gently reframes feeding stress as a whole-system issue, not a personal failure. Drawing on over 15 years of experience supporting families in the first year, she explains why reflux, bottle refusal, and fussy evenings so often show up together and what they are really communicating.
This conversation is about nervous system load, depletion, and why feeding stress is often one of the earliest signals that a family needs more support, not more advice.
In this episode, we cover:
- Why feeding struggles are rarely “just about the bottle”
- The common cluster of reflux, bottle battles, and evening fussiness
- Anxiety vs intuition when feeding feels charged
- How parental depletion and burnout show up through feeding
- Why mental health is healthcare in the postpartum period
- What actually helps when feeding feels hard
- How to reframe feeding as information, not a problem to fix
If feeding feels heavy right now, you are not doing it wrong. You are responding to a system under load.
Support is allowed. And it matters.
🎧 Next episode: What Actually Helps When Feeding Is Hard (And What Quietly Makes It Worse)
Resources + Support
- One-time feeding, sleep, and regulation consults
- Ongoing in-home or virtual postpartum support
- Medicaid-covered postpartum care for eligible families
Thank you for listening! Tune in next time for more insights and support on your parenting journey.
Contact Information:
Doula Deb: www.DoulaDeb.com
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Disclaimer:
The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Always consult with a qualified healthcare provider for personalized advice and information.
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