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Episode Synopsis
Are you worried that you will never sleep well again once you have a baby?
Do you struggle to get to sleep or find yourself waking in the middle of the night and unable to get back to sleep?
Sleep can seem evasive once we become mothers. But it doesn’t have to be that way. It is possible to get great sleep even with little kids or a baby. This doesn’t always happen automatically. Yet, with a few shifts in your mindset, environment and daily habits, it can be your normal.
In this episode of the Wild & Well podcast, I talk with sleep expert and clinical psychologist Dr Daniella Marchetti about sleep in motherhood. Even if you are already getting decent sleep,
Dr Daniella is a wealth of knowledge on all things sleep. If you take one thing away from this chat and implement it today, you will be on your way to a dreamer sleep for yourself and your family.
Dr Daniella and I chat about:
Why sleep is so important
Reasons why so many of us are tired
Momsomnia
Environmental impacts on our sleep
Nutritional and lifestyle shifts for better sleep
How to get better sleep even with a newborn
Dispelling unhelpful myths about sleep postpartum
Routines to support our children’s sleep
Daniella Marchetti is a licensed Clinical Psychologist with a specialty in Behavioral Sleep Medicine. She earned two master’s degrees and her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Miami. She is a trained Health Psychologist with a passion for and specialty in behavioral sleep medicine. She provides care at the Miami VA, as well as in her sleep centered private practice. She helps patients attain better sleep, whether they have insomnia, nightmares, sleep apnea, or even hypersomnia conditions. She is based in Florida, where she enjoys being outside with her husband and kids.
Dr Daniella recommended the following books and podcasts:
A Woman’s Guide to Sleep by Joyce Walsleben
The Pout-Pout Fish and the Can't-Sleep Blues
Sleep Talking podcast
Sleep Junkies podcast
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