Attuned Postpartum, Narragansett, RI (2026)

04/05/2025

Beach walk and reminiscing on the past week… ☀️ 🌙 Overnight postpartum support is crucial for many families. For parents that can afford the average $360/night fee of this service, they receive newborn and parent education (a good mix of collaboration and empowerment), cleaned bottles and baby laundry, more uninterrupted sleep, and more. Their physical, mental, and emotional health is supported, and in turn, so is their baby’s and family’s well-being (and society’s! 😎).

Those unable to afford this service and who don’t have the opportunity of local family or friend support can benefit from this service, too. You can contribute to the Community Fund at the link in bio to support the beginnings of caring for more Rhode Island families. 💙

03/21/2025

Birthworkers, including nuance and context to your content enriches it, the reader and viewer, and your work.

While I know we might not be able to include all the context and nuance into one social media post, and long form content is always better for those purposes, it's worth the effort to make them even just a little more of an inherent part of your content. ✨ Added a little more color this time for pizzazz. ✨

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Nuance means "a subtle difference or distinction in expression, meaning, response, etc." and context means "the set of circumstances or facts that surround a particular event, situation, etc." (dictionary.com). The more we use these online, the more people can clearly understand: intentions for sharing; the shades or specific details relevant to an example; and how applicable or not the content may be to their situation. Providing references and sources is also a great way to give families the opportunity to look into more detail!

If you already use context and nuance in your work in-person, it’s worth the extra effort to help families learn better online.

How to start? Practice! When discussing examples of how you helped a family with a particularly fussy baby: provide detail on the baby’s temperament; and/or, if applicable, mentioning if it was associated or caused by a medical concern (yes, you can still prioritize anonymity!). Begin including your training materials and other publicly found material as references- some families might not know what was or wasn’t included in our trainings even if we have a clear scope of practice on our websites and contracts. Also, what you think is common sense or common knowledge might not be to others!

A little more context and nuance is better than none. Birthworkers, was there a way in which you adding context and nuance helped a family, another birthworker, or other professional learn or understand more? Families, how do you want context and nuance to show up in the work we provide? Conversations encouraged in the comments!

03/12/2025

This is a brief summary of the second resource, Intro to Parent-Child Attachment Science, featured on the blog and newsletter, Exploring Care.

This resource is a podcast episode from The Mom Room with Renee Reina, PhD, and Tanya Cotler, PhD. I found it to be a clear overview and concise approach to covering the basics of attachment science, parenting, and child psychology. In my blog post, you’ll learn more about how children and parents hold each other in mind and reflect on early experiences, the difference between attachment parenting and attachment science, and attachment styles used in child development research.

If you’d like to learn more about social psychology, emotions, and how those may be applicable to the postpartum period that are discussed in the first resource, you can visit the Linktree in my bio. You can subscribe to my newsletter for future resources there as well!

01/24/2025

Exploring Care: On the individual and their relationships, emotion and social research, science communication, and applicability to the postpartum period

This is a brief summary of the first resource featured on my blog and newsletter, but first, we have to talk about something...

The resource I sent out in my newsletter on Tuesday is a Wisdom of the Body podcast episode, “What We Do With Emotions”. The guest, Felicia Zerwas, PhD, is a social psychologist working as a postdoctoral researcher at NYU and her work there is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF). Because of the recent news on the NIH freeze, other health agency communications’ pauses, and potential impacts on the administrations’ future decisions with research funding and grant applications, I wanted to provide some resources and action steps.

These action steps are just to start with, but can also support the researchers we know. While explaining more detail on this (and I know this isn’t the only thing going on- there’s so much!) is not directly within my educational/expertise scope, research funding and communication in many areas affect us all and we benefit from them, so this is serving to pass on more information from other professionals.

1. To understand potential impacts, you can follow public health professionals and science communicators (like epidemiologists and others who provide public health information and resources). , , , , are professionals who’ve provided more details. Some mentioned how review periods and pauses have happened before, just not at the scale we’re seeing right now. Also see ’s Substack from today for more specifics and the NIH’s pause’s relation to the upcoming Health and Human Services secretary nomination hearing on 1/29.

2. It’s also been recommended to contact your Senators about the freeze, its negative effects, and the administration’s HHS secretary nomination.

3. Also, follow your local, state resources, like state health departments, while health agency communications are paused.

See comments for more.

01/19/2025

I've started a newsletter!

This idea has been brewing off and on for the past year or so, and while it’s not perfect- it’s here! Or almost :) I thought about creating a page on my website with a list of educational resources for parents that I’ve come across in my education in child development and early childhood mental health, as well in my broader work experience in childcare, but decided it might be fun to try somewhat more real-time updates and conversations on resources I’m sharing. I’m starting off slow with a monthly newsletter, although once every two weeks might be doable depending on the time I have and the resources I get to and through. For now, the resources will be released individually as blog posts on my website and then I’ll compile them into this newsletter.

This newsletter and resource curation is an experiment, a way for me to rediscover lost resources and explore new ones, and for me to hold myself accountable by updating you all. I am also now giving myself permission to mess up and even correct things down the line. A big reason for me being hesitant to do this in the first place was due to the idea, and fact, that I would and will mess up, but having this in mind as a guide (instead of as a hinderance) is helping me bring this into existence and be okay with the inevitable mistake! My posts will have updates if they’re edited for any reason.

You can subscribe to the newsletter to learn more about the first resource's posting date! See the link in bio or copy the link here: https://buttondown.com/attunedpostpartum

Looking forward to sharing 🌼

01/09/2025

Masking visibility since lowering postpartum families’ risks to asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic illness exposure and transmission is an important part of my work 💙 love having a tool to keep families safe and for them to not deal with the extra stress being sick can bring!

I’m also on Bluesky now 🦋 I’ll be posting mostly the same material for now on both platforms, but will let you know when that changes!

12/15/2024

New post on my blog, Baby Insights! The Business of Babies and Families (Part 2) details why working with a solo business can be just as, or more, beneficial than an agency. The agency you’re planning to work with might take a cut of what you pay, so how much is going to the postpartum provider who is working in your home? Also discussed is how working with my business can be more beneficial than an agency, what paying an agency might cover for their business expenses, questions to think about when interested in working with an agency, and how to get started on finding your own postpartum provider.

Each solo business, provider, and agency have their own business practices and financial priorities and what’s said in this blog post may not be all-inclusive of all businesses. I’d recommend asking more details of the specific agency or solo business you’re interested in working with to learn about their practices!

Parents that found postpartum providers (and yes, this an apply to nannies, too!) on their own- what questions did you ask and what was the process like?

12/14/2024

Come join me for an Instagram Live tonight at 8:30 PM ET to learn more about the newborn care course, Newborn Care: Building Curiosity! I’ll be talking about the idea of building curiosity and one of the modules, Expectations and Reflections, as it relates to parenting, postpartum, and newborn care. Bring your questions- parents and birthworkers! 😁 Looking forward to having you there!

12/08/2024

New post on my blog, Baby Insights! This time, it's about The Business of Babies and Families (Part 1), On Working as an Independent Contractor and Where Your Money Goes.

What are you paying for when you hire a postpartum doula and newborn care specialist? What are you paying for when you choose a solo business as opposed to an agency?

In part 1, I dive into how I portion out my business income (hello, taxes!) to give an overview of what you’re paying for, beyond just my prior training and experience.

For part 2, Why Working With a Solo Business Can Be Just as or More Beneficial Than an Agency, we'll go more in depth about what my business and agencies might both offer and how we’re different. For instance, agencies may typically require more money for overhead costs (e.g., advertising and other operating expenses). Also, even though they might have a lot of providers listed on their website, they can't always guarantee that a provider will be available when you need one- solo businesses can also have a network of providers to refer out to when they're sick or have an emergency. But what about contracts and transparency between clients and providers? I'll provide more insight as to what families and birthworkers can both be aware of and ask about if interested in working with a solo business or an agency! Not everyone will be open to discussing specific business practices and financial priorities, however, but learning more about what to look out for can be helpful when you're prioritizing your postpartum support needs and wants.

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