65 - Regulation Over Routines: Why Your Baby Doesn’t Need a Perfect Schedule

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Doula Talk, Doula Deb Jimenez tackles the obsession so many parents have with getting the schedule exactly right, down to the minute. Deb shares a conversation with a mom who spent three hours debating a fifteen-minute difference in wake windows, and uses it to make a bigger point: a schedule can support sleep, but it can't create it. Before routines, babies need regulation, meaning they need to feel calm, fed, connected, and developmentally supported enoug...