The 10 Minute Newborn | Quick Tips for Newborn Parents

I did something the other day that I'm always telling parents not to do: I asked ChatGPT a normal newborn question. Specifically, why a newborn will only sleep when she's held, and wakes up the second you put her down in the bassinet. The answer it gave me was so overwhelming that I felt lost. And I'm a Certified Lactation Counselor, Newborn Care Specialist, and Pediatric Sleep Consult...

My second daughter barely made a sound when she was born. After the first night my husband and I genuinely thought we'd hit the jackpot. And then night two happened. Nonstop crying. Nonstop feeding. A complete one-eighty. What I was witnessing had a name, a biological reason, and a predictable timeline. Nobody told me any of it. This episode prepares you for that. In this episode: Why babies s...

A few months ago I sat in a parking lot for a full hour, sobbing, completely unable to make myself drive home to my kids and my responsibilities. I wasn't hurt. I was completely burnt out. This episode is a personal one. It's the story of what happens when you convince yourself that doing it all is just what your life looks like now (and how long you can carry that before something breaks)...

You've read all the books. You've built the registry. You've Googled things at 2am you're not going to tell anyone you Googled (I promise, almost everyone poops during labor). But you still have that quiet feeling in the back of your mind that you're not quite ready. In this episode, I'm sharing the four things I wish someone had told every family I've worked with befor...

If the SNOO is on your registry — or you're trying to decide whether it should be — this episode is for you. The SNOO bassinet is one of the most talked-about baby products on the market, and honestly, for good reason. It works. But as a Certified Lactation Counselor, Newborn Care Specialist, and Pediatric Sleep Consultant, there's a part of this conversation the marketing consistently lea...

Most new moms are told to watch for hunger cues, dirty diapers, and wake windows. Nobody tells you to watch for this. Mouth breathing in newborns is one of the most commonly overlooked red flags in the newborn stage and it's almost always a sign that something else is going on underneath the surface. In this episode, Kristen breaks down why newborns are designed to breathe through their nose,...

Keeping your baby up later to get a longer stretch at night feels completely logical. It's also one of the most common mistakes I see newborn moms make. It almost never works. In this episode I'm sharing the story of a newborn mom I'm currently working with. It's her third baby, she knows my methods (we worked together on her second baby too!), but she is still stuck in the same pa...

One day your newborn was falling asleep mid-bottle and impossible to keep awake. The next day she was wide-eyed and awake for hours and you had no idea what happened. This is what I call the Four-Week Wake-Up. It's the developmental shift that happens around three to four weeks of life when your baby's brain comes online, cortisol starts to regulate, and the sleepy newborn phase ends witho...

In October of 2019, I walked out of the hospital with my first daughter, a chemistry degree, a very capable husband, and absolutely no idea what I was doing. That first night home is where this whole thing started. Not because it went badly, but because something about it quietly set us up better than I knew at the time. Both of my daughters were sleeping through the night before ten weeks. When I...

You've tried everything. Earlier bedtime. Longer wake windows. Letting them fuss a little longer before you go in. And you're still up three times a night. Here's what nobody has told you yet: your baby's night waking might have nothing to do with sleep. In this episode, we're talking about one of the most common patterns I see in my weekly group coaching calls and the one that...

She had three nights in a row where her baby slept through without a single feed. She let herself believe she'd finally cracked it. Then her baby was up every hour. In today's episode, Kristen breaks down why the 2 AM waking is almost never a 2 AM problem and what was actually happening during the day that sent that mom's night sideways. If your baby keeps waking at the same time every...

One mom came into my group coaching this week and said adding formula felt like being told she was starving her child . She was triple feeding, waking up for 3 AM pump sessions, doing everything right — and her supply was still dropping. The reason had nothing to do with her effort. In today's micro-cast, I walk through the cortisol-oxytocin loop that runs silently in the background for so man...

Your baby isn't "broken," they’re just being fed by a fire hose. Most new moms are taught to feed babies in a way that makes gravity do all the work. The result? A baby who eats too much, too fast, and ends up covered in spit-up. In today's micro-cast, Kristen Jacob shares the exact strategy she uses in her live coaching calls to help moms differentiate between medical reflux and simple mechanical...

Your baby isn't a "bad napper." They just haven’t mastered daytime sleep just yet. Most new moms feel like they’ve failed when their baby wakes up the second their back hits the bassinet or after a mere 20 minutes of sleep. The result? A "nap-trapped" parent and a chronically overtired newborn. In this episode, Kristen pulls back the curtain on the most discussed topic in her coaching calls: the c...

Most Type A moms have a "fix-it" instinct. Our baby cries out, we assume a need, and we swoop in to the rescue. In this episode, Kristen explains active newborn sleep and why your "fix-it" instinct might be the very thing interrupting your baby's restorative rest. See how a simple two-step visual check and the "10-Minute Pause" that can save you from unnecessary wake-up calls and help your baby br...