307: Empowering New Parents and Breaking Free from Mom Guilt and Judgment with Jamie O’Day and Emily Silver of NAPS
Conversations with Cam
Dear Media
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with Emily Silver and Jamie O'Day, co-founders of NAPS (Newborn and Parenting Support), to discuss the challenges of new parenthood and the importance of personalized, judgment-free support for parents. Emily and Jamie share their experiences as labor and delivery nurses, which led them to identify a crucial gap in postpartum care and ultimately inspired the creation of NAPS, provide advice on how to find the support you need, enlighten us on the reality of baby-friendly hospitals, and get honest about new motherhood.
Key Takeaway / Points:
- The origin story of NAPS and its evolution from overnight care to comprehensive parenting support
- Night shift experiences in labor and delivery and how they shaped Emily and Jamie's approach
- Critique of "baby-friendly" hospital policies and their impact on new mothers
- The pervasive judgment and guilt in parenting decisions
- How can we identify trusted sources for parenting advice?
- The concept of "human giver syndrome" and its effect on mothers
- Why is accessible healthcare support crucial for new parents?
- How can we filter unsolicited parenting advice?
- What would "mom-friendly" hospitals look like?
- The importance of personalized care in the postpartum period
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:04.0 | All right. |
| 0:04.3 | Today is a fun one for moms who just want to feel seen of like, what the fuck? |
| 0:09.1 | Why am I constantly getting judged for everything? |
| 0:11.5 | And like why does it feel like sometimes I just can't win? |
| 0:14.7 | Like, why is it that I feel like no matter what I do, there's some form of judgment? |
| 0:19.3 | And like, there is no right way. And why can't we just |
| 0:21.8 | accept that? That everyone's journey is going to look different. So not only is this episode |
| 0:26.1 | educational and informative because we are joined by Jamie O'Day, who is a registered nurse and |
| 0:31.5 | IBCLC, which is an international board certified lactation consultant, and Emily Silver, who is a family |
| 0:37.2 | nurse practitioner and also |
| 0:38.7 | in IBCLC. |
| 0:40.0 | And together, they are the founders of NAPS, newborn and parenting support. |
| 0:44.8 | But it's also fun because they're freaking fun. |
| 0:47.6 | So a little bit out on them, we dive into the founding of NAPS, but basically they were both |
| 0:53.8 | L&D overnight nurses, night shift, |
| 0:58.0 | night shift, not overnight. And after so frequently hearing new parents say, can I take you home |
| 1:03.1 | with me? They took charge and started NAPS in 2011. And after working together on the company |
| 1:08.0 | as a side hustle for years, Jamie and Emily realized in |
| 1:11.0 | 2017 that they either had to shit or get off the pot, quite honestly, and follow their true |
| 1:15.6 | calling of running naps full time. Being moms themselves and knowing that there's no one right |
| 1:21.0 | way to parent, which we hammer down big time in this episode, Jamie and Emily built naps as an honest, |
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