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The 10 Minute Newborn | Quick Tips for Newborn Parents

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The bite-sized guide for Type-A, sleep-deprived newborn parents. Hosted by Kristen Jacob—a Certified Lactation Consultant, Pediatric Sleep Consultant, and Newborn Care Specialist—this podcast delivers expert troubleshooting in 10 minutes or less. Each week, Kristen takes a specific struggle straight from her Newborn Foundation Protocol coaching calls to break down the logic and strategy you need to fix it. No fluff, no judgment—just expert quick tips for parents who are done second-guessing and ready to troubleshoot like a pro. Subscribe now for the only newborn manual you actually need.

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Episode thumbnail for Why Every Schedule You've Downloaded Has Failed (and what your baby's schedule should be)

July 30, 2026

Why Every Schedule You've Downloaded Has Failed (and what your baby's schedule should be)

<p><strong>What Should My Baby&#39;s Schedule Look Like? (The Wrong Question)</strong></p><p>I get asked this constantly, and I always answer it with a question: what do YOU want it to look like?</p><p>Because there&#39;s what a schedule should look like on paper, there&#39;s what your baby is actually capable of, and there&#39;s what your family&#39;s life will genuinely allow. The right schedule lives somewhere in the middle of all three. Most people are only looking at the first one.</p><p>In this episode:</p><ul><li>The biggest mistake I see: living and dying by the time on the clock, when your baby has no idea what time it is</li><li>Why the order of the steps matters more than when they happen, and how a routine sets an expectation for a baby who can&#39;t understand a single word yet</li><li>The bedtime example that makes it click: why 7:00 vs 7:15 vs 7:30 doesn&#39;t matter, but bottle-and-bed one night and the full bath-lotion-book-song the next absolutely does</li><li>Why I ask what you want your schedule to look like, and what baby schedules have in common with eating clean and going to the gym</li><li>The wake window trap, and why a downloadable graphic is a guide and nothing more</li></ul><p>Stop chasing perfect. Chase the happy medium you&#39;ll actually keep.</p><p><strong>Try the Snooze Clues Companion free:</strong> <a href="https://app.snoozeclues.co/companion" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://app.snoozeclues.co/companion</a></p><p>Kristen Jacob is a Certified Pediatric Sleep Consultant, Certified Lactation Counselor, and Newborn Care Specialist who has worked with more than 500 families.</p>

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July 23, 2026

Your Baby Can Sleep Through the Night AND Still Wake to Eat

<p>Everywhere I go, someone finds out I&#39;m a sleep consultant and asks the same thing: what am I doing wrong, and what&#39;s your one tip to get my baby sleeping better?</p><p>I never answer that straight. I ask a question back. Because when you say your baby wakes up, I need to know what that actually looks like. Not all night wakings are created equal, and until I know which kind we&#39;re dealing with, any tip I give you is just a guess.</p><p>In this episode:</p><ul><li>Why &quot;sleeping through the night&quot; has no real definition, and how two moms can say the exact same sentence and mean completely different things</li><li>The three kinds of night wakings: biologically normal, habit-based, and true hunger</li><li>The one I see constantly after the four month regression, where a habit waking gets answered with a feed and quietly turns into real overnight hunger</li><li>Why &quot;just offer a feed&quot; can accidentally build the exact problem you were trying to solve</li><li>What actually fixes it: break the habit, move the calories back to the day, or both</li></ul><p>Stop asking what you&#39;re doing wrong. Start asking what kind of waking this is.</p><p><strong>Try the Snooze Clues Companion free:</strong> <a href="https://app.snoozeclues.co/companion" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://app.snoozeclues.co/companion</a></p><p>Kristen Jacob is a Certified Pediatric Sleep Consultant, Certified Lactation Counselor, and Newborn Care Specialist who has worked with more than 500 families.</p>

Episode thumbnail for The 4 Newborn Weeks That Make You Feel Like a Failure (and Why You're Not): 2, 4, 6, and 16

July 16, 2026

The 4 Newborn Weeks That Make You Feel Like a Failure (and Why You're Not): 2, 4, 6, and 16

<p>Every week I get the same message from a different parent: &quot;My baby was doing so well, and now it feels like everything&#39;s falling apart. I don&#39;t know what I did.&quot;</p><p>Here&#39;s the thing. You didn&#39;t do anything. Nothing broke. What actually happened is your baby hit a week that was always coming, but it wasn&#39;t marked on your calendar.</p><p>So in this episode I&#39;m putting it on your calendar. I walk through the four developmental shifts I see in every single baby I work with, what&#39;s really happening in each one, and why knowing they&#39;re coming is the difference between a bump in the road and a five-car pileup.</p><p><strong>What we cover:</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Weeks 2 to 3, the growth spurt.</strong> Why your baby suddenly wants to eat nonstop, what cluster feeding actually is, and why it does not mean your milk dried up or your supply was never enough.</li><li><strong>Weeks 3 to 4, the four-week wake-up.</strong> Why the dreamy two-hour naps disappear and the 45-minute nap shows up, and why short naps at this age are development, not damage.</li><li><strong>Week 6, peak fussiness.</strong> The loudest week of the newborn period, the developmental leap hiding underneath it, and why so many parents give up on their foundation the week right before it starts working.</li><li><strong>Around 4 months, the &quot;regression&quot; that isn&#39;t one.</strong> Why the 4-month sleep regression is really a permanent progression, and why it&#39;s the one that throws you for longer than the rest.</li></ul><p>The information about these weeks isn&#39;t rare. The problem is you usually get it after the hard week has already flattened you. Getting it before is the only kind that actually protects you.</p><p><strong>Start your free trial of the Snooze Clues Companion:</strong> <a href="https://app.snoozeclues.co/companion" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://app.snoozeclues.co/companion</a></p><p>Personalized, week-by-week feeding and sleep guidance built on The Newborn Blueprint Framework. It knows exactly how old your baby is, tells you what&#39;s happening this week and what&#39;s coming next week before it gets here, and answers your questions in my voice whenever you need it. Prenatal through age three.</p><p>Kristen Jacob is a Certified Pediatric Sleep Consultant, Certified Lactation Counselor, and Newborn Care Specialist who has worked with more than 500 families. The 10 Minute Newborn delivers one real newborn answer in about ten minutes. New episodes weekly.</p><p><br></p><p>TIMESTAMPS </p><ul><li>0:00 The message I get every single week</li><li>0:47 Why &quot;I don&#39;t know what I did&quot; is the wrong question</li><li>1:27 The panic scramble, not the fussiness, is the real problem</li><li>3:30 Weeks 2 to 3: the growth spurt and cluster feeding</li><li>4:38 Week 4: the four-week wake-up and short naps</li><li>5:42 Week 6: peak fussiness and the developmental leap</li><li>7:05 Around 4 months: a progression, not a regression</li><li>8:06 Why the timing of information is everything</li><li>8:59 The one thing I built to help</li></ul>

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What is The 10 Minute Newborn | Quick Tips for Newborn Parents?

The bite-sized guide for Type-A, sleep-deprived newborn parents. Hosted by Kristen Jacob—a Certified Lactation Consultant, Pediatric Sleep Consultant, and Newborn Care Specialist—this podcast delivers expert troubleshooting in 10 minutes or less.

Each week, Kristen takes a specific struggle straight from her Newborn Foundation Protocol coaching calls to break down the logic and strategy you need to fix it. No fluff, no judgment—just expert quick tips for parents who are done second-guessing and ready to troubleshoot like a pro. Subscribe now for the only newborn manual you actually need.

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