Doula Talk: Postpartum, Babies and the Battle for Sleep
Doula Talk is a podcast for parents navigating the real, often messy middle of postpartum and early parenthood.
Hosted by Doula Deb, a birth, postpartum, and sleep doula with over 15 years of experience, this show offers compassionate guidance, honest conversation, and practical support for the first year and beyond. We talk about postpartum recovery, newborn care, sleep, nervous system regulation, and the emotional load that so many parents carry quietly.
This isn’t about quick fixes or perfect routines. It’s about understanding what’s happening beneath the surface and building steady, supportive foundations that help both parents and babies feel more regulated over time.
Through solo episodes and thoughtful conversations with trusted experts, Doula Talk helps you make sense of sleep struggles, feeding questions, recovery, and the constant mental load of early parenthood, without shame, pressure, or panic.
If you’re pregnant, newly postpartum, or deep in the exhaustion of caring for a baby, this is a place to slow down, feel less alone, and remember that you’re not doing this wrong.
Doula Talk: Postpartum, Babies and the Battle for Sleep
Latest Episodes
67 - Taking My Own Advice: Why Doula Talk Is Pausing (and Where to Start in the Archive)
In this special episode of Doula Talk: Postpartum, Babies, and the Battle for Sleep, birth, postpartum, and sleep doula Deb Jimenez shares an announcement: the podcast is taking a break. Nothing dr...
66 - Building Confidence in Baby Sleep: How to Make Decisions Without Spiraling
In this episode of Doula Talk, Doula Deb Jimenez tackles one of the most common places parents get stuck: making a sleep decision without spiraling into panic.Deb walks through why baby sleep decisions feel so emotionally loaded, and why...
65 - Regulation Over Routines: Why Your Baby Doesn’t Need a Perfect Schedule
In this episode of Doula Talk, Doula Deb Jimenez tackles the obsession so many parents have with getting the schedule exactly right, down to the minute.Deb shares a conversation with a mom who spent three hours debating a fifteen-minute ...
64 - Why Families Wait Too Long to Ask for Help (And What Support Actually Looks Like)
Why do so many parents wait until they’re completely exhausted before asking for support?In this episode of Doula Talk, Deb talks about the pressure parents feel to “figure it out” on their own, the overwhelm that comes from confl...
63 - Timing Is Everything: Why Your Baby Isn’t Fighting Sleep (Usually)
Is your baby really fighting sleep—or are they trying to tell you something?In this episode of Doula Talk, Deb breaks down why bedtime battles, short naps, crying, rolling around, or that sudden burst of energy before bed may have...
