Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Exposures

If you are on medication or considering starting medication while pregnant or breastfeeding, you want to make sure you talk to your healthcare provider. It can also be helpful to have easy to understand language around the different medications and exposures. Mother To Baby Fact Sheets summarize all the available scientific information to determine whether or not parents and their developing babies are at risk because of an exposure in their environment. This is a valuable resource when considering medication and can help to feel more informed before having a longer conversation with your medical provider.

Sleep Training and TikTok

This article is a good reminder to be mindful of our social media intake. It may be helpful to limit how much we watch social media around parenting issues, especially hot button topics like sleep training. If we start to feel worse or triggered by parenting posts, we can always put down our phone and unfollow.

Night Terrors: How TikTok has supercharged the age-old debate over sleep training.

By Laura Hazard Owen

Books by Karen Kleiman

Karen Kleiman is an expert in the field of maternal mental health. She has written several books that may be helpful for new parents: Books by Karen Kleiman

Raising Good Humans

When we feel stuck in parenting, listening to a podcast can help give us some new ideas, or even help us feel less alone in our struggles. Dr. Aliza Pressman is a developmental psychologist with a podcast, Raising Good Humans, where she interviews various experts in the field of child psychology. This can be a helpful tool to use when we need a different parenting perspective.

Insomnia treatment

If sleep is something you struggled with before having a baby, the sleep changes that are inevitable with a new baby can sometimes trigger previous sleep issues like insomnia. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) has been proven to be the most effective treatment for chronic Insomnia. Feel free to reach out if you have questions or want to learn more about receiving treatment for insomnia through CBT-I.

Action Plan

It can be helpful to have a tool to use during pregnancy and after birth to assess depression and anxiety and if action steps need to be taken. Don’t hesitate to reach out for help now if you are concerned about how you are feeling.

Action Plan for Depression and Anxiety Around Pregnancy

New Parent Groups

It can be really helpful to have a group of new moms/dads to spend time with during the early days of being home with the baby on parental leave. Park Slope Parents is an easy way to find other parents in Brooklyn with babies the same age. They have groups for parents based on the birth month of your child so you are connected with other parents going through very similar changes.