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The Mom Room

EP132. Baby Unplugged, with Sophie Brickman

The Mom Room

Renee Reina & Podcast Nation

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8602 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

EP132. Sophie Brickman is a writer, reporter, and editor whose new book, Baby Unplugged, explores how technology infiltrates every aspect of raising children. Renee and Sophie chat about smart socks for infants, virtual villages, baby paparazzi (i.e., parents with smart phones), smart toys, and e-books vs. print books. 

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Book: Baby, Unplugged

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0:00.0

Is drinking raw milk safe like RFK Jr. suggests? Can you reduce a glucose spike if you eat your food in, quote, unquote, the right order? I'm registered dietitian Abby Sharp. I host a nutrition myth-busting podcast called Bite Back with Abby Sharp. And those are just some of the questions I tackle with qualified experts on my show.

0:21.4

There is so much food misinformation and disinformation out there, and it can feel impossible

0:27.9

to know what's real and what's BS.

0:30.7

On Biteback, my goal is to help listeners create a pleasurable relationship with food,

0:35.3

their body, and themselves, which in my opinion is the

0:38.6

fundamental secret to good health. Listen to bite back wherever you get your podcasts.

0:44.9

This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. Welcome to the mom room room podcast. My name is Renee Rina and I am definitely the mom friend

1:08.5

you have always wanted. Welcome to the Tuesday episode. I have my

1:14.2

Invisal line in. So please bear with me, okay, with the S sounds especially. I love the topic of

1:23.6

today's episode and I think it's something that we don't often talk about. So initially when

1:29.9

I was approached to have Sophie on the podcast, I thought she wanted to talk about like screens.

1:36.6

And I was thinking, well, like that's not really a topic. You know, like I thought she was going to be

1:41.0

anti-screen just because of the title of her book is called Baby Unplugged. But that was not it at all. It was actually such a fascinating

1:50.9

conversation to talk about how technology is so much a part of our lives when it comes to

1:57.5

raising our children. Literally from the moment they come out of the womb.

2:01.6

It's like so many things, like new products, all this technology.

2:07.4

Like, for example, when Milo was a newborn, I was contemplating getting the little baby sock

2:13.5

that goes on their feet and like sends you all this data.

2:17.5

But as soon as I found out that it could malfunction and go off, you know, and scare the shit

2:22.3

out of you, basically, I was like, no, I cannot do that.

2:25.3

My anxiety cannot do that.

2:28.1

Sophie Brickman is a journalist, a writer, and when she had her first child, she got really into this topic of technology and raising

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