Doula Talk Blog & Podcast
Welcome. This is a space for thoughtful guidance, honest conversations, and practical insight for the postpartum period and first year.
Here you’ll find blog posts and podcast episodes that help you make sense of sleep, feeding, recovery, and the emotional load of early parenthood. My goal is not to give you more rules to follow, but to help you understand what’s happening beneath the surface so you can respond with clarity and confidence.
Whether you’re navigating sleep disruptions, feeding challenges, or simply trying to feel more steady in your role as a parent, these resources offer evidence-informed perspective, real-world context, and support you can return to whenever you need it.
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The Overloaded Brain: Why Parenthood Feels Like Decision Fatigue on Steroids (And What to Do About It)
You know the moment.
You’re standing in the kitchen holding a bottle, a pump part, your phone, and a cold cup of coffee. You walked in there for a reason, but now you can’t remember what it was. The baby finally fell asleep, you should probably eat something, someone texts asking how you’re doing, and suddenly your partner says:
“What do you want for dinner?”
And for reasons you cannot explain, you feel irrationally angry.
If this sounds familiar, first: hi, welcome to postpartum.
Second: no, you are not failing.
And third: your brain is probably overloaded.
One of the biggest misconceptions about new parenthood is that because we have more information than ever before, parenting should feel easier. But for many families, especially in the postpartum period, the exact opposite happens.
Instead of feeling supported, we feel buried under information, opinions, tracking apps, and endless decisions.
If you’re struggling with postpartum brain fog, postpartum overwhelm, or decision fatigue in parenthood, there is a reason for that, and it has a lot less to do with your capability than you think.