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Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Lisa Pressman. I'm so excited to welcome back

New York Times bestselling author, clinical psychologist, and

colleague and friend, Dr. Tina Payne-Brasin, who is so awesome and just published a book this week

called The Bottom Line for Baby. She's also written six other books with Dan Siegel.

This is her first solo book, and I'm going to put it in the show notes for those of you who have babies

or know people with babies. We're talking about this time period. We have a full new growth

as parents, as adults, when we have babies, and our brains are ripe for all of the cool stuff

that comes along with learning new things. It's also fraught because there's lots of controversial

topics, and there's a lot of decisions that you have to make. So we're talking about those today

and hopefully after this episode and grabbing that book, it'll make those decisions a lot easier.

If you enjoy this episode and you haven't done so already, please don't hesitate to subscribe,

rate, and if you're super into it in the moment, write a little review.

What has happened in infancy in the world of parenting a baby that's changed since you did it?

A lot. A lot makes me want to do it again, but I'm too old for that. So I'm basically written

this book so I can hand my daughters-in-law. I have three sons. I can hand my daughters-in-love

should my boys choose to marry women. That is basically going to be like, this is the book you

should follow, and so I'm going to intrude upon your parenting in this way, because I'm going to have

so much to say. You can zip it. Exactly. One of the things that really surprised me is,

and maybe it shouldn't have, but using parenties, which used to be called motheries when I had little

babies for me, extend our vowels, and we say, oh, look at the doggy, right? We used that, not

Goo Goo Gaga baby talk, but where we used that kind of more sing-songy kind of thing. Decades of

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