Baby’s crying. Your partner’s asking you where your toddler’s blue milk cup is. Your toddler’s yelling at you to wipe their hands with the green cloth (not the yellow one). You just noticed a dried-up spit-up splotch on your shirt (did that happen before or after daycare pick up?), your phone is blowing up, there’s a pile of laundry glaring at you out of the corner of your eye and—WEEE-OOH! Is that an ambulance or your internal alarm screaming “ENOUGH!”? In the postpartum period, there’s a lot going on—you have a full time job taking care of a needy small human, piled on top of regular life and the many roles you already play. It's a super-stimulating load for your nervous system, in a time when your nervous system can biologically handle less than your usual. This episode is all about what we're learning and how we're dealing. In this episode, we talk about: • The nervous system's narrowed window of tolerance in early postpartum • What overstimulation (aka sensory overload or hyperarousal) looks and feels like • How we're learning to regulate our own nervous systems in postpartum, and how we're supporting our babies in doing the same • Plus, Jenna and Sofia are sleeping, finally! We'll talk about what changed for them (it's a lot!)

In this episode, we reference: • The postpartum window of tolerance (lack of sleep is *absolutely* a factor, x major bonus points for difficult birth experience) • Mother brain (book) • The "You feel like shit” self care check in • Paprika app