Our babies are still very dependent on our bodies when they're born and when they're tiny.

And when I say that, I mean it literally.

So our body, our heartbeat, our heartbeat, our temperature regulates their temperature.

Literally everything is synchronized.

Synchronicity is this key biological situation because we do synchronize in every way.

And one of the ways we synchronize

is our sleep patterns. So as mothers, we synchronize our sleep patterns with our babies if we're

close. Now, whether that's co-sleeping or whether that's room sharing, in that first six months,

like, yes, but ideally even stretching a bit longer to 12, we do want to be room sharing with our kids

because it definitely keeps them very safe overnight. And that's the key, right? We want to

keep them safe.

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Today I have with me, Louise, and she is here because she's helping moms rethink everything that we've been told about baby sleep.

Instead of rigid schedules and pressure, she's bringing a gentle science-backed approach that honors both biological

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