How to distinguish typical postpartum mood shifts from clinical depression, what screening tools exist, and when to reach out for professional support.
No sleep and the baby is crying again
New Parent Survival Course
Nobody sleeps. The baby won't latch. You and your partner haven't had a real conversation in weeks. This course covers the first year: soothing, feeding, recovery, and keeping your relationship alive.
Soothing, feeding, sleep, and relationship repair for the first year
Covers postpartum recovery for both parents
12 illustrated lessons. Audio narration included.
What's inside
12 lessons with illustrated guides and audio narration.
The difference between common new-parent worry and postpartum anxiety, why intrusive thoughts happen, and what treatment options are available to you.
Practical strategies for sleep deprivation, recovery logistics, and asking for help during the acute postpartum period when everything feels urgent.
Realistic approaches to caring for yourself when time and energy are scarce, built around what overwhelmed parents can genuinely sustain.
What drives conflict between partners in the postpartum period and specific communication practices that protect your connection under pressure.
How invisible labor accumulates, why resentment builds around household division, and concrete frameworks for redistributing parenting responsibilities.
Preparing your child and yourself for the transition back, managing separation guilt, and structuring routines that ease the adjustment.
The neuroscience behind infant crying, how your soothing response shapes brain development, and reading your baby's cues with more confidence.
Evidence-based calming techniques for fussiness and colic, when to suspect an underlying issue, and how to protect your own composure.
What the research says about breastfeeding and formula, navigating pressure from others, and making a feeding decision you can stand behind.
Recognizing readiness signals, managing the physical and emotional sides of weaning, and handling unsolicited opinions about your timeline.
Specific bonding activities for your newborn's stage of development and what to do when attachment feels slow or forced rather than instinctive.
It's evidence-based
Grounded in developmental science. Not just our opinion.
Which skills are trainable at which age, how children develop systems thinking, when critical reasoning emerges. That comes from decades of developmental psychology research. We studied the science, then built activities that work in real family life.
Bruce D. Perry
Psychiatrist behind the neurosequential model and the critical "Regulate, Relate, Reason" sequence used to connect with distressed children.
Daniel Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
Authors of The Whole-Brain Child, providing foundational strategies for integrating logic and emotion to nurture developing minds.
Stephen W. Porges
Creator of Polyvagal Theory, identifying the distinct nervous system states of safety, fight/flight mobilization, and shutdown.
Adele Diamond
Neuroscientist specializing in executive functions, defining the biological developmental limits of impulse control and reasoning in young children.
Bruce E. Compas
Researcher on coping styles, distinguishing between helpful regulation and harmful strategies like suppression, avoidance, and rumination.
John Bowlby
The father of attachment theory, establishing that secure emotional bonds are the absolute prerequisite for independent emotional regulation.
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Common questions about New Parent Survival
This course covers strategies for children from toddlers through early teens. Each lesson includes age-appropriate variations so you can adapt the approach to your child's developmental stage.
Free advice gives you isolated tips. This course gives you a complete system: sequenced lessons that build on each other, with scripts you can use word-for-word and illustrated guides for quick reference in the moment.
Each audio lesson is 15–20 minutes. Designed to fit during a commute or nap time. The strategies integrate into moments you already have with your child, so there's no extra schedule to maintain.
Full refund within 30 days, no questions asked. If you don't find it valuable, you don't pay.
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Newborn Survival Quick Reference
a practical quick reference for the first 12 weeks — covering feeding schedules, sleep patterns, red flags to watch for, and when to call the pediatrician.