Taking Cara Babies - Helping Parents Find Sleep, Hope, and Confidence

The Story of a Brand Show

Ramon Vela

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 145 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

I had such a powerful and heartfelt conversation with Cara Dumaplin, the CEO & Founder of Taking Cara Babies.

Cara shared her deeply personal journey—from her background as a neonatal nurse and wife of a pediatrician to her own struggles with sleep deprivation as a new mom. What I loved most about this interview is how Cara took her hardest moments, the valleys of her life, and turned them into seeds that grew into a mission to help parents everywhere.

We talked about how sleep impacts not only babies but the entire family, and how Cara’s work is about so much more than swaddles or schedules—it’s about empowering parents to believe in themselves, find grace in the learning process, and realize they are the true experts of their own children. Her wisdom, compassion, and dedication shine through every word.

Here are a few highlights from our conversation:

How Cara’s darkest moments as a new mom inspired her mission

Why helping parents get just a few extra hours of sleep is life-changing

The philosophy behind Taking Cara Babies: empowering parents as the experts

Practical guidance for parents at any stage, from newborns to toddlers

Why grace, compassion, and presence are essential in parenting

Join me, Ramon Vela, as I listen to this episode and hear how Cara is transforming the lives of parents and babies with wisdom, heart, and hope.

For more on Taking Cara Babies, visit: https://takingcarababies.com/

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0:00.0	You're about to have your baby.
0:01.9	And it doesn't matter if it's your first or your fifth.
0:03.9	I feel like you can always learn.
0:06.8	But let's say you take my newborn class.
0:09.3	In this newborn class, what I'm going to show you is, okay, your baby is crying.
0:15.5	How do you take a newborn baby who's crying and help?
0:22.9	You've changed their diaper, you've fed them.
0:24.0	Now what?
0:25.6	Okay, let me show you.
0:31.3	And on camera, in this class, I take a bussy newborn and I show you how to calm them.
0:33.7	Okay, so now they're calm in your arms.
0:37.3	But the second I lay them down in that bassinet, you know what's going to happen, right? Okay,
0:37.7	so how do you go from your arms to the bassinet? Okay, but the second I lay him down, he's going to be
0:44.3	up in one minute. Like, okay, how do you actually get him to nap long enough for you to eat lunch?
0:50.3	And I show you and I walk you through this. And so calming a fussy baby is one thing I teach in there.
0:56.3	Reading their cues, that's another thing. You know, I always thought, like, as a new mom, I was like,
1:04.3	well, she's crying. She must be hungry, right? But what I didn't know, this is something that, like,
1:10.0	is a good takeaway for parents.
1:12.3	This is for newborns. From the moment they open their eyes until they're looking for their next nap in those early weeks and months, it's about 60 to 90 minutes. 60 to 90 minutes. That's not very long, right?
1:25.4	Right. 60 to 90 minutes. That's not very long, right?
1:41.7	Hey, everyone. This is Ramon Vela. And this is another episode of the story of a brand.
1:44.6	Like always, we have an amazing guest in brand that we're going to feature on today's show. But before we do, scaling an e-com brand is brutal, especially when you're
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