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From birth to age 5, a child’s brain develops more than at any other time in life, and more rapidly. The quality of the parent-child relationship is a significant factor in predicting a child's development and well-being. Relationships with warm, responsive, and consistent adults are essential to a child’s healthy development and predict long-term outcomes.

Parenting is hard, especially here in the U.S. We don’t have paid federal leave and we often don’t have the amount of support needed to parent. On top of that, there is no manual specific to you, your child, and your family and community context that gives you all the answers. The journey to becoming a parent, how you feel about your pregnancy, and your postpartum experiences can all contribute to parent and child mental health. Early childhood is a time of rapid change and development. This is your child’s first time navigating all of this too! Sometime you just need a little support navigating through the newness of it all.

Everyone has an opinion on what you should do with your baby-how you should hold them, feed them, what to do with their sleep. It can be overwhelming! Here at Settled & Soothed, I bring the most up-to-date infant and toddler sleep research (including my own), my systemic and therapeutic training, my infant and early childhood mental health training, my credentials as a lactation counselor, and an understanding that every family has their own values when it comes to parenting.