Eight months of broken sleep and a head full of shoulds.

This is the mini where Alex talks about sleep-training Scarlett, and the hardest part of it actually being just undoing everything she'd told herself about what she was supposed to do. Lorissa, who's immune to the shoulds, has great advice on how to ignore the conflicting noise.

What We Cover

→ Why "what's best for the baby" isn't what you think

→ How anti-sleep-training messaging kept Alex questioning her own intuition for eight months straight before she called it

→ Why the shoulds in motherhood can sneak up on you, and what it means to "be your own camp"

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Lorissa Violet

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Alex Payetta

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Timestamps

0:00 Alex is finally sleeping

1:30 Eight months of broken sleep and the home birth community

4:00 Co-sleeping, home birth, and why they get tied together

7:00 Identity, camps, and the should spiral

10:00 Weaning Scarlett and letting the baby decide

13:00 "Be your own camp"