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Spoil Your Baby

Dr. Greer Kirshenbaum

Enfants & Parentalité

Fréquence : 1 épisode/7j. Total Éps: 48

As a mom, neuroscientist, and a long time expert to parents, almost every expert has it wrong when they say 'don't spoil your baby.' Up until the age of 3, your only job is to spoil your baby with affection, attention, and protection. I promise you it's the best chance for the long term mental health and success of your child. On my podcast, I will interview the leading experts to explain why you need to SPOIL YOUR BABY as well as those that may disagree for a spirited debate. I will also give you the most up to date science-backed tools and tips that will help you to raise your baby for lifelong health and success.

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Evolutionary Parenting: Beyond the Sleep Training Narrative feat. Tracy Cassels | #43

mercredi 19 novembre 2025 • Durée 45:35

Why does our society place more value on controlled baby sleep than on maternal support, proper feeding, or comfort?

Tracy Cassels began her influential work while pursuing her PhD in developmental psychology, coinciding with her pregnancy. She observed a profound contradiction between the widespread advice advocating for infant sleep training—even when pushed by some academics—and the robust findings found in developmental literature and her own research. This mismatch, which she initially felt was a foreign concept given her own background, became the critical momentum to start sharing her perspective publicly. This led to the launch of her extensive website, Evolutionary Parenting, roughly 15 years ago. This platform developed into an invaluable resource, providing detailed and thoroughly referenced information on nearly every topic related to infant brain development for parents. Tracy often interacts with families, some of whom bring along skeptical relatives or partners, seeking clarification on the evidence surrounding sleep practices. She approaches the topic by presenting an honest assessment of what the research confirms and what remains unknown, helping listeners discern the subtleties often missing from conventional advice. She argues that the findings against certain practices, such as sleep training, form an "incredibly strong circumstantial case" rather than a clear-cut legal link. Furthermore, Tracy contends that many sleep problems are misinterpreted as behavioral failures when they are actually symptoms of underlying issues like allergies, sleep apnea, or hormonal imbalances. Her most recent paper with Levita DeSousa advocates for researchers to adopt a much broader perspective, moving away from seeking a "one size fits all solution" and instead considering the full family dynamic, cultural influences, and health context when studying infant sleep.

Key Takeaways

● Sleep problems are often symptoms of underlying physical or psychological issues, not always primary behavioral faults of the baby or parent.

● The research focusing specifically on mothers and babies, particularly concerning clinical interventions and emotional connection, is significantly lacking.

● An overemphasis on controlled sleep in modern society leads parents to prioritize it over other critical nurturing components like love, comfort, and proper feeding.

● Some research proposes methods to help mothers suppress the natural anxiety they feel when hearing their distressed baby cry, counteracting an essential evolutionary response.

● Infant sleep should be viewed as a family dynamic influenced by culture, general family preferences, health issues, and the need for connection.

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Resources

● Tracy's Instagram: @tracycasselsphd https://www.instagram.com/tracycasselsphd

● Books by Tracy Cassels:

○ Finding Daycare: Navigating the Murky World of Child Care in Today's Society

○ https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Daycare-Navigating-Todays-Society-ebook/dp/B07PGDR6TC

● Evolutionary Parenting's website: https://evolutionaryparenting.com/ (Note: Some parts are currently missing due to a crash, but it will be restored soon).

Guest Bio: Tracy Cassels holds a PhD in developmental psychology and is the founder of Evolutionary Parenting. She co-authored a paper with Levita DeSousa, an attachment theory specialist at Monash University in Australia, focusing on how sleep training ignores the larger family dynamic. She is also a contributor to an upcoming academic book on sleep, edited by Jenny (who Greer has also written with), which includes chapters from Darshan Arves and LaVita DeSousa.

#Ready to Connect with Greer?

"Nurture Neuroscience" Website: https://www.nurture-neuroscience.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drgreerkirshenbaum/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/greerkirshenbaum/

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Why Maternal Love is a Neurobiological Craving feat. Kelly McDaniel | #42

mercredi 12 novembre 2025 • Durée 28:51

What happens when we spend our adult lives searching for a quality of maternal love we never received as a child?

Kelly McDaniel, a licensed professional counselor and author, introduced the concept of "Mother Hunger" in her first book, Ready to Heal. She identified Mother Hunger as an attachment injury stemming from maternal deprivation, noting that millions of women suffer a lifelong emotional burden that adversely affects self-worth, eating habits, and relational wellness. This profound attachment trauma, Kelly explains, is a neurobiological craving for unmet needs: nurturing, protection, and guidance. This "hunger" is often misunderstood and sought inappropriately from romantic partners, friends, or authority figures. Kelly's work illuminates how cultural forces, especially patriarchy, compromise a mother's capacity to provide a consistent, safe caregiving environment, leading to generational trauma that impacts secure attachment. Kelly published her second book, Mother Hunger, in 2021, compiling research since 2008 to explore how adult daughters can understand and heal from these losses. She emphasizes that while we cannot go back in time, neuroscience shows that our brains can change throughout life, offering hope and opportunity for repair. Her clinical approach helps adult daughters identify this craving, understand the truth of their pain, and become "cycle breakers" in their own families.

Key Takeaways

● Mother Hunger is a profound neurobiological craving for three essential elements of maternal care: nurturing, protection, and guidance.

● Unmet needs often arise from ancestral inheritance, cultural environments, and unhealed trauma, not necessarily a lack of maternal love.

● A mother can be physically present but emotionally absent due to unhealed trauma, leading to chronic, automatic dissociation.

● Healing Mother Hunger enables adult daughters to break epigenetic cycles of trauma, improving their self-worth and relational wellness outcomes.

Conscious Connections: Holistic Baby Care & Family Bonds, with Tracy Gillett | #33

Épisode 33

mercredi 10 septembre 2025 • Durée 35:03

What if "spoiling" your baby with affection, attention, and protection is actually the best path to their long-term mental health and success?

Tracy Gillett, a natural parent, felt alone in her early parenting choices like full term breastfeeding and bed-sharing. This led her to create the Raised Good summit, offering a community where parents find confidence, education, and support. The summit highlights research and experts, empowering parents to trust their intuition and parent consciously.

Key Takeaways

Spoil babies with affection, attention, and protection for long-term mental health.
Natural parenting, backed by science, empowers trusting your intuition and conscious choices.
Find confidence and community through events like the Raised Good online summit.
Understanding a child's nervous system helps interpret behavior and promote healthy development.
Extended breastfeeding offers immense benefits; let go of societal expectations and embrace it.

Resources

Raised Good online summit: https://raisedgood.com/
Guest Bio: Tracy Gillett is the founder of Raised Good and hosts its sixth annual online summit. As a natural parent, she started the summit to build a community for parents seeking confidence, education, and support in their alternative parenting choices.

Ready to Connect with Greer?:

"Nurture Neuroscience" Website: https://www.nurture-neuroscience.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drgreerkirshenbaum/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/greerkirshenbaum/
FREEBIES for Parents https://nurture-neuroscience.com/Freebies-For-Parents

Beyond 6 Weeks: The Real Postpartum Journey, with Maranda Bower | #32

Épisode 32

mercredi 3 septembre 2025 • Durée 31:18

Are we truly supporting mothers postpartum, or are we perpetuating a cycle of misunderstanding and neglect?

Maranda Bower, a biological researcher, bestselling author, and the visionary behind Postpartum University, embarked on her journey into postpartum health driven by her own profound and unprepared experience as a new mother.

Sixteen years ago, with her first child, she found herself amidst extreme postpartum depression and anxiety, experiencing panic attacks and fearing for her son, all while the topic of postpartum mental health was largely taboo and unsupported by research or public conversation. This personal crisis fueled her determination to understand why this was happening, pushing her beyond conventional science into anthropological studies of ancient cultures. She discovered universal "postpartum truths" from cultures worldwide, traditions that had specific, often unscientific-sounding yet physiologically accurate, methods for caring for new mothers.

These ancient practices, which focused on needs like digestion and overall body care, revealed a stark contrast to modern North American norms. Maranda transformed her personal quest into a professional mission, becoming a postpartum doula and childbirth educator.

She developed the "postpartum restorative method," a framework for healing that blends traditional wisdom with modern scientific understanding. Through Postpartum University, she now educates and certifies providers, empowering them with the crucial knowledge often missing from their formal training, ultimately changing the world by healing mothers.

Key Takeaways

● Postpartum care extends far beyond the traditional six-week mark, with physiological and psychological changes lasting up to six years.

● Many common postpartum practices in modern society, like drinking smoothies, can actually hinder a mother's recovery, especially regarding digestion.

● Societal pressures often lead to the medication of natural female life stages (menstruation, birth, postpartum, menopause), preventing natural transformations.

Dance Movement Therapy for Moms: A New Language of Connection | #31

Épisode 31

mercredi 27 août 2025 • Durée 40:08

Your baby speaks in movement—do you?

In this episode of Spoil Your Baby, Dr. Greer Kirshenbaum is joined by Erica Hornthal, a licensed movement therapist, professional counselor, and author of Body Aware and Body Talk. Known as "the therapist who moves you," Erica offers a powerful reframe on how we understand mental health—not through words alone, but through the body.

Together, Greer and Erica unpack the core truth that movement is not optional—it's the first language between parent and child. From the rhythms in the womb to the moment-to-moment physical attunement with our children, movement holds the key to co-regulation, healing, and reconnection with the self.

This isn't about "getting your body back" or squeezing in a workout. It's about learning how your own posture, breath, gestures, and tension patterns reveal what's happening inside of you—and how that awareness can help you connect more deeply with your child, especially in moments of overwhelm.

Whether you're a mother navigating early postpartum anxiety or simply trying to survive toddler tantrums, Erica shares tiny but transformative tools—like noticing your grip on the steering wheel or how you walk into a room—that help you ground, regulate, and reconnect to your body, so you can be present for theirs.

If you've ever felt lost in the mental fog of early parenting, this conversation is your invitation to redefine movement as self-care, communication, and healing.

Key Takeaways

Why movement is the original form of parent-child communication
What it means to listen with your whole body
How to co-regulate through body awareness, not just words
Why parenting books often miss this essential component of connection
Movement as a tool to grieve, reclaim, and rebuild your sense of self after birth
"It's not bad behavior—it's a body having a hard time." Reframing child behavior through the lens of movement
Micro-movements = micro-moments of self-care—especially for moms of babies 0–3

Physical & Emotional Connection through Baby Carrying: with Busi Musiiwa | #30

Épisode 30

mercredi 20 août 2025 • Durée 38:48

Carrying your baby is about more than comfort… It's about fostering a deep connection through proximity.

On today's episode of the Spoil Your Baby podcast, Dr. Greer Kirshenbaum sits down with Busi Musiiwa: an Occupational Therapist, mom, and founder of BabueBaby, whose baby carriers are transforming the baby-wearing industry.

Busi moved to Canada from Zimbabwe at a young age, yet she has always honored her home country and culture. In much of Africa, baby wearing is a way of life, shaping how babies experience their first years. When Busi arrived in Canada, she set out to design a carrier that honored those traditions while also meeting the comfort and safety expectations of Western parents.

No matter where you are in your parenting journey, one thing is clear: by listening to this podcast, you are choosing to grow, to make space, and to care with intention.

If this episode resonated with you, share it with a friend. To learn more about Busi's company, visit babuebabycarriers.com

Key Takeaways:

Baby carriers should place the weight around the hips & torso, not shoulders.
You are shaping your baby's nervous system from the moment they're born.
Don't fear the teenage years, lead with empathy.
The deepest human need is to be known, and that's true for you with your baby.
You and your baby have the ability to co-regulate.

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