This episode explores emotional regulation and coregulation, the effect of parent stress on an infant’s physiology, the qualities of warmth and responsiveness and their role in development, and how parents are the experts and change-makers when it comes to providing the supports that a child needs in order to grow and flourish.

We talk about developmental windows in the growing nervous system, recognizing our own emotional traumas that we may bring to the table as we parent, and ways to deal with in-the-moment stressors when you feel like you may want to explode with emotion when it comes to handling the stress of raising a little one.

We also dive into the ability of babies and kids in general to pick up on our parental stress responses and how we can quit fueling the fire for crying and meltdowns by being more mindful about our own physiology and thought processes. And is it possible that we as a culture are placing emotional expectations on our little ones that are far too high?

Macy gives a brief intro to navigating systems with their now-adopted daughter through the foster care and medical system. We plan to later dip our toes more into the topic of advocacy for your little one within a medical system that more often wants to prescribe a pill and push you out the door instead of digging into the root cause of problems. 

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