During my time as a childcare provider, I realized the importance of not only caring for a family’s new addition, but for the whole family as well. I babysat many years for a variety of ages and was a nanny for children under 3 years of age for 5 years, which gave me the opportunity to delight in my own curiosity for the way in which infants and toddlers develop. To learn more about development and other perspectives than my own, I received training in newborn care, began working as a newborn care specialist (also sometimes referred to as a night nurse or night nanny), and trained as a birth and postpartum doula. I recently completed a Master’s in child and adolescent development, with a minor in infant and childhood mental health (which fortunately for me also included a lot of insight into the first couple of years of a child’s life and family dynamics!).