Actually, you cannot train or teach sleep. It's not a skill to be taught.

You know, hopefully if you're holding a little baby right now and they're asleep in your arms

and you're like, oh, man, I should have set them down already. That will come. And what you're

doing now is actually paving the way for their independence in the not too distant future.

I'm Cynthia Overgard, birth educator, advocate for informed consent, and postpartum support specialist.

And I'm Tresha Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and international board certified lactation consultant.

And this is the Down to Birth Show.

Childbirth is something we're made to do.

But how do we have our safest and most satisfying experience in today's medical culture?

Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth.

Hello. It's lovely to be here.

I'm Louise.

I am the mom behind Mother Nourish Nurture on Instagram and obviously online.

But that's really kind of a secondary thing.

So first and foremost, I'm a pediatric sleep development specialist.

I have a long history in terms of perinatal infant mental health, infant feeding.

So it's kind of all of the puzzle pieces that make up thriving in health in those early years.

And I decided to bring my kind of clinical practice online during COVID because that was just

what everybody was doing, right?

Telehealth became a thing.

And I wondered, is this going to reach the moms that need it because there was this kind

of big epidemic even more so of kind of loneliness postpartum?

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