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21. Biological Infant Sleep: Reclaiming Intuitive Motherhood | Taylor Kulik


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Taylor Kulik started educating & supporting mothers from around the world about biological infant sleep and responsive parenting after her own journey with her first child. When her daughter was an infant and became increasingly more difficult to place into a crib for daytime or nighttime sleep, Taylor found herself between 1 or 2 options: sleep training (since that seems to be the only answer from the internet, friends, family, or professionals), or accidentally falling asleep herself while trying to nurse her daughter back to sleep. As a healthcare professional, Taylor had heard every fear-based message in the book about the "dangers" of co-sleeping, but once she realized that this was the most instinctual way to sleep with her baby, she expanded her research and realized that much more people were co-sleeping around the world than what she previously believed. Since then, Taylor's mission has been to offer safe co-sleeping information to mothers that they are often withheld from healthcare professionals. We invited Taylor on the podcast to dismantle sleep myths & sleep taboos, and offer what often is the missing piece in our motherhood journey that can optimize the entire family's sleep at night, while honoring biological needs & healthy attachment.

Join us as we sit down & discuss the following:

  • Our culture's obsession with infant sleep
  • Our experiences with a more biological approach to sleep
  • How the sleep training industry created a "problem," and then sold us a "solution"
  • Sleeping through the night is not a rite of passage
  • Your body is enough
  • Setting yourself up for realistic expectations
  • How to support mothers
  • Factors that go into baby's sleep
  • Allowing dependence is how you facilitate independence
  • Is our system set up to support mothers & babies?
  • The implications of the lack of a village
  • Addressing the foundation of biological needs
  • An honest talk about "mom shaming"
  • What is bedsharing?
  • Biologically normal infant sleep patterns
  • How to support sleep for both mom & baby
  • *Not medical advice. This podcast & episode are for inspirational + educational purposes only*


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