As an adult, you're not sleeping. It affects every single area of your life. Your ability to focus, your creativity, your motivation, your energy, your health, at least to increase risk of things like obesity and cardiovascular disease and type of diabetes, as well as the mental health issues like anxiety and depression. So it's pretty serious in and of itself. Empower yourself. Just like you're empowering your child to understand that you're doing the best thing for them. Do it in the way that works for your family that you view and your partner, if you have one, can be consistent with and that you both can agree on. It's going to be better for everyone. You're actually going to be a better parent for it. When you focus on your child's sleep, but then also take the time to focus on your sleep too.

Because I see a lot of parents who will set up a bedtime routine for their kids and make sure that they have everything they need when it comes to their sleep.

But then they're still, as a parent, sleeping poorly and not understanding that their sleep also matters.

Hi, everybody. I am Emily Capitaluppo, Woop Senior Vice President of Research

Algorithms and Data, and today I am joined by the incredible Dr. Angela Holiday Bell.

Dr. Holiday Bell is a board certified physician, certified sleep specialist who focuses on

pediatric and family sleep health. Thank you so much for

being here with us today. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to talk about this because I feel

like so many people always have questions about their child sleep and their sleep, so I'm excited to dig in.

Okay. As a mom to a two and a half year old, I am one of those people and I know so many of our listeners are those people. And if you're not, you know those people. So forward the episode along. I think this is one that people are going to be really excited to hear. I'd love to hear your story. How did you get into this space? And what does it mean to be a family sleep specialist? Great question. So I actually got

into this space because of my own struggle with insomnia. So I am a pediatrician by training.

And as I was going through my medical training, I started to suffer from insomnia. Initially,

I didn't have time to sleep because I was working 80 plus hours a week.

But then it became me not being able to sleep even when I had the time.

Absolutely one of the most stressful and frustrating things I've ever been through in my life.

And so I started on my own class to just fix my sleep and started learning things about sleep,

volunteering in the sleep clinic in my hospital,

and in that process started to put practices into place that I was learning in my entire life

changed for the better.

My relationships, my energy, I was being a better doctor, everything improved.

At the same time, sleep was always coming up in every single visit, from the newborn

visit to toddlers, to school-age

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