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NAPS guides families through the stages of pregnancy & parenting with support from registered nurses.

NAPS guides families through the stages of pregnancy and early parenting with personalized support from experienced registered nurses, providing prenatal, lactation, CPR and sleep classes, support groups, and its signature membership service, Nurture by NAPS.

10/15/2026

Let’s give the pregnant and newborn parents some REAL data.

When did your baby consistently sleep through the night?

And most importantly:

What does “through the night” mean to you?

6 hours?
8 hours?
12 hours?

Here at NAPS we define “sleeping through the night” as 11-12 hours of overnight sleep with no feeds. But we know each family can define this differently!

So drop your baby’s age & longest stretch below 👇

10/14/2026

My favorite lines to help guide your questions and education during prenatal visits and on labor and delivery. 😘

10/01/2026

New baby coming. Should you pull your toddler out of daycare to keep the baby from getting sick?

My recommendation: I wouldn’t.

Yes, daycare means more germ exposure, and reducing that exposure is a completely reasonable thing to think about with a newborn.

But that’s not the only risk/benefit calculation.

Your toddler has a routine. They have structure, socialization and consistency at daycare. Their entire world is about to change when a sibling arrives, so keeping the parts of their life that can stay consistent is incredibly valuable.

And then there’s YOU.

You’re recovering from pregnancy and delivery, feeding and caring for a newborn, with disrupted sleep and removing childcare means you’re now responsible for your toddler all day too.

There are other ways to decrease germ exposure: handwashing when your toddler gets home, keeping sick siblings away from baby as much as possible, and teaching them to kiss baby’s belly or feet rather than face/hands.

You can’t make the risk of illness zero.

The goal is to weigh all the risks and benefits for the entire family, not just germs.

Second-time parents: did you keep your older kid in daycare/school when baby came? Would you make the same decision again?

09/09/2026

Which one made you chuckle because it was just a little TOO relatable? 🤣 💀

Tell us which one got you in the comments 👇🏻

And if you have one we missed, PLEASE add it. We clearly need a part 2…

09/07/2026

Happy Labor Day to all who celebrate… and we REALLY celebrate 🤣

I was not someone who particularly enjoyed being pregnant. I loved the thick hair and feeling my babies move, but the growing belly, sore b***s, aches and pains? I could do without.

But man, did I LOVE labor.

Yes. You read that correctly.

I loved it so much that moments after delivering my first daughter (before I had even delivered the placenta) I turned to my husband and said, “You’re going to think I’m crazy, but I want to do that again.”

He did, in fact, think I was crazy.

Maybe it was because I was a labor & delivery nurse and knew what to expect. Maybe it was because I had the perfect epidural. Maybe it was because my labor was uncomplicated and progressed quickly. Maybe I knew how to push. Maybe it was just dumb luck.

Probably a little bit of all of it.

And I know how incredibly fortunate I was. Labor doesn’t go according to plan for everyone, and so much of what happens is completely outside of our control.

But I also think we hear A LOT of scary birth stories, and not nearly enough of the good, funny, empowering, weird, unexpected, “holy s**t, I just did that” ones.

So, in honor of Labor Day, I want to hear yours.

Did you love it? Hate it? Get the natural childbirth of your dreams? Deliver in 45 minutes? Push for four hours? Have absolutely NOTHING go according to plan?

👇 Tell us your labor story. The good, the hard, the hilarious, the completely unexpected…we want them all.

08/28/2026

I’ve seen a patient 20 times in the last 15 months through insurance covered visits and it has brought me so much joy to support this family for so long in this way ❤️

We can be this support system for you too! We now accept Blue Cross Blue Shield, United Healthcare, Cigna, Aetna, MGB, and Harvard Pilgrim.

06/02/2026

Ask both your employer (or HR department) and your spouse’s if they “offer any employer sponsored benefits or stipends for postpartum support or doula services”.

These are usually offered through third parties like Carrot, Maven, or Progyny. And can provide significant financial assistance for essential birth and postpartum support for your family.

05/30/2026

Estate planning isn’t just paperwork.

It’s parenting.

Just like using a car seat, or choosing a pediatrician, it’s about protecting your child and planning ahead.

Estate planning protects your family if the unexpected happens.

Not because you expect something to go wrong…but because you’re a parent, and that’s what parents do.

Ready to check this one off your list? Book a free info call with through the link in our bio.

05/28/2026

I bet you never imagined how often you would be looking at p**p, thinking about p**p, or talking about p**p… until now, with your newborn 😅

Your Ask a Nurse question:
“My exclusively breastfed 8 week old has really watery p**p… is that normal?”

The answer is usually yes 🤍

Breastfed baby p**p is often
💛 Yellow or mustard colored
💩 Loose, watery, or seedy
✨ Sometimes explosive
😅 Sometimes after every feed

We often see looser and more frequent p**ps early on because breastmilk is incredibly easy to digest and, in fact, acts as a natural laxative.

Add in a little formula and p**ps may shift in color or consistency too. Regardless of how your baby is fed, yellows, greens, and browns are all generally part of the normal p**p rainbow 🌈

So what isn’t normal?

🚩 Blood in the stool
🚩 White, pale, chalky, or clay-colored p**p
🚩 Newborn p**p that goes back to black after those early meconium stools
🚩 Copious mucus PLUS fussiness, poor feeding, or poor weight gain
🚩 Signs of dehydration like fewer wet diapers

And while we’re here… frequency can vary wildly too 😅

Some breastfed newborns p**p after every feed 💥
Others may go several days without p**ping once they’re a little older.

It’s wild because some babies p**p 4–5 times a day while others p**p every 4–5 days… and both can be normal.

This is why we always say when it comes to newborn p**p, we look at the whole baby 👶

Ask yourself… is your baby:
✨ Eating well
✨ Peeing regularly
✨ Gaining weight
✨ Overall content after feeds

When it comes to newborn p**p, normal is a pretty wide range 😅

And if you’re ever unsure, you can always ask us on our Ask a Nurse board or message your pediatrician 🤍

05/20/2026

FREE WORKSHOP on Body Image in Pregnancy and Postpartum this Friday, May 22nd at 1pm EST with our friends and Registered Dieticians from . Link in bio to register.

What helped you most with your postpartum bod? Here are 4️⃣ (plus one bonus) tips:

👗Buy new clothes! Your clothes are supposed to fit you, you aren’t supposed to fit in your clothes. I don’t know when it became acceptable to only purchase new clothes for your changing pregnant body and not your changing postpartum body, but im not here for that s**t! Buy clothes that make you feel good in your body!

💅🏻 In place of or in additional to recognizing the things you don’t like about your body, try and find the things you do like about your body or at least feel neutral about. For me, that’s always my hair (well before I lost it all PP 🤪), my nails, and my lips!

🪞Try and replace the negative self talk with something more positive but believable. It’s not feasible to replace “I hate my body” with “I love my body” but it might be feasible to replace it with “I appreciate what my body has given me”

👯‍♀️ Avoid surrounding yourself with people IRL or online that don’t make you feel good about your body and make you feel like you should look a certain way. That may mean setting boundaries or having difficult conversations with a tricky family member or friend. That may mean unfollowing certain accounts on social media or setting filters to avoid certain content. Then seek out people who have a more positive or realistic view of their body’s postpartum, or follow accounts of people who have the same body type as you.

And if all else fails, ask yourself and your loved ones to name the top 5 things you love most about yourself and they love most about you, and I guarantee you not one of those 5 things will be anything related to your appearance ❤️

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