From Chaos to Calm: Simple Sleep Strategies for New Parents
Featuring Kaili Ets
With Lauren Zatezalo, OT student, and Melissa O'Neal, OTR/L
Kaili Ets is both an occupational therapist and a mother who has been in the middle of postpartum sleep deprivation. This episode is the practical follow-up to the nervous system conversation, focusing less on why and more on what to actually do about it. Three sleep strategies, built for the real conditions of new parenthood.
About Kaili Ets
Guest bio coming soon.
What You Will Learn in This Episode
- Three specific sleep strategies that an occupational therapist would recommend for new parents. These are not for the baby, but for the parent.
- Why the 'sleep when the baby sleeps' advice fails most new parents and what to do instead.
- How to think about rest as an occupation, something that requires intentional design, not just good intentions.
- What Kaili did in her own postpartum period that worked, and what she wished she had known from an OT perspective.
- The difference between sleep hygiene for a typical adult and sleep hygiene for someone in active postpartum sleep deprivation.
Show Notes and Resources
National Sleep Foundation (sleepfoundation.org). Postpartum Support International (postpartum.net).
From This Episode
Transcript excerpt coming soon.
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