Tackle Bedtime with Netflix Jr.’s Popular Podcast

Winning the bedtime battle with your kids can feel like an impossible task, but what if you had a little extra help?

Enter Bedtime Stories with Netflix Jr., the Signal Award-winning and chart-topping Kids & Family podcast made to help kids drift off to sleep alongside characters from their favorite streaming series (like StoryBots and Super Monsters).

Created with a childhood development expert, the show helps children successfully transition to sleep and build skills to navigate the world.

Listen to Bedtime Stories.

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This week, we’re chatting with Dr. Navya Mysore, a primary care physician, women’s health expert, mother and dog mom, on the topic of postpartum care. When you’re a brand-new mom, how do you best take care of yourself while you’re taking care of a newborn baby?

Today’s Topic: How do I care for myself as a new mom?

Becoming a new mother brings so many physical and emotional changes — one moment you’re only responsible for yourself, and the next, you have a new little person to take care of. It’s easy for new birth parents who are focused on caring for their newborn baby to lose sight of taking care of themselves. But the postpartum period involves you, your partner, your family and others in your community learning how to care for your newborn.

We talked to Dr. Navya Mysore, a primary care physician, women’s health expert, and the Medical Director for Women's Health at Nurx from Thirty Madison, to get a better sense of how new moms can prioritize their mental and physical health while caring for their newborns. Click below for our interview with Dr. Mysore on postpartum anxiety, finding community with other new moms, how little sleep is too little, and more.

Care-fully selected product recs 

Every product and service listed in this section is independently chosen by us, Take Care’s highly discerning editors Maya and Eliza. We have two rules for our recommendations: We only recommend things we’d use ourselves, and we don’t earn a commission from these links —  we just want you to have the best of the best. No, seriously. 

• Nutrafol postpartum for women is a daily hair growth supplement to help women who experience hair loss during their postpartum journey. Dr. Mysore says: “After I had my second child, I was losing a lot of hair — Nutrafol was really helpful.”

• Bodily’s Everything Bra is designed to be so comfortable and versatile, it can support you from pregnancy through breastfeeding — this is also one of Dr. Mysore’s favorites.

• The Frida upside down peri bottle is Dr. Mysore’s essential postpartum recovery tool for vaginal deliveries. With an ergonomic design, Frida’s peri bottle comes with an on-the-go waterproof travel bag to prevent spillage.

• For c-section births, Dr. Mysore recommends Frida’s C-section recovery band to support your stomach, pelvis and back while protecting your healing incision.

  

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• A Biden rule on heat safety at work could take years — but if you’re pregnant, you’re already protected. New regulations likely won’t be implemented until 2026, but the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act already covers some employees, the 19th reports.

• Why your wedding guest dress is probably from Abercrombie. The Cut explores the unbranding of Abercrombie & Fitch, and how the once-problematic mall brand has pulled off the most exciting makeover in American retail.

• Iconic sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer has died. Westheimer was a pioneer in sex therapy, breaking down taboos "with her open, nonjudgmental and good-humored public conversations about human intimacy," NPR reported.