Rattled: When New Parenthood Shakes You
Rattled is a podcast for new, expecting, and first-time parents navigating the challenges of pregnancy, postpartum, and life with a newborn. Each episode, Dr. Becky and the Good Inside team address honest, difficult questions about the emotional reality of becoming a parent. The show aims to help parents who are second-guessing themselves, their choices, and their identity.
Episodes
Emily Oster Talks Science, Vibes, and the Nights Where Nothing Works
"You don't have what it takes." That's the sentence that ran through Dr. Becky's head the night her baby threw up an entire bottle on her, minutes before she was due out the door. It's not a sentence parenting experts are “supposed to” have.
Dr. Becky sits down with Emily Oster — economist, Brown University professor, founder of ParentData, and author of Expecting Better, Cribsheet, The Family Fir
In Good Hands: The First Goodbye
Ten days. Three weeks. Two and a half years. Ask a room full of parents when they first left their baby with someone else, and you'll get every answer there is. Dr. Becky says the number matters less than what's happening underneath it.
In this solo episode, the second in a three-part series with Care.com, Dr. Becky breaks down the anxiety that shows up when it's time to hand your baby to someone
Parenting on Empty - Revisit
Parenting is exhausting. The number of things you have to do to manage it all can feel relentless and nonstop. And no, you’re not doing anything wrong. Many parents feel this way. Today on the show, we're cross-posting a crowd favorite from "Good Inside with Dr. Becky," and tackling parental burnout, what you can do to take care of yourself, and how to bring some fun back into your life.
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Cameron Oaks Rogers Trades Questions with Dr. Becky
Cameron Oaks Rogers is pregnant with her third baby, and her 2.5-year-old will not let her out of his sight. Not "clingy" in the normal toddler way — he wants back in, physically, as close to her body as he can get.
This week, Cameron and Dr. Becky trade the mic. Cameron — host of Conversations with Cam and writer of the Substack Fill Your Cup — brought her own concept to the table: "parenting is
In Good Hands: Finding Your Caregiver
Searching for childcare feels different from every other kind of parenting research. You can vet the daycare, read the reviews, love the nanny on paper, and still get to the door and feel your whole body say absolutely not. This episode is about that feeling, and why it runs so much deeper than logistics.
Becky sits down with Good Inside’s Kate Kirschner, a licensed therapist and certified perinat
Chemistry, Not Character: Why You Don't Feel Like Yourself After Baby
A few weeks after having a baby, a lot of new parents land on the same quiet, scary thought: something feels off, and I don't really recognize myself. Is it postpartum depression? Anxiety? Or something no one warned you about?
Dr. Becky sits down with Dr. Lucky Sekhon, a reproductive endocrinologist and fertility specialist, to make sense of what's actually happening in your body and brain after b
Postpartum Anxiety: The 3 Cycles Running the Show
Your baby is finally asleep. So why are you standing over the crib for the fifth time in a minute, checking that they're still breathing?
If new parenthood cranked your anxiety to a setting you don't recognize, this one's for you. Dr. Becky sits down with psychologist Dr. Nicole Pensak, author of the book Rattled, and grabs a whiteboard to map the anxiety that quietly runs the show in early parent
5 Numbers Every New Parent Needs to Hear
What if someone handed you a map before you started down the hardest road of your life?
That's what Dr. Becky does in this solo episode — breaking down five data points every new parent needs to know. Not to scare you. To prepare you. Because the thing that spirals most new parents isn't the difficulty itself. It's being completely blindsided by things that are entirely predictable.
The five numbe
Postpartum OCD, Intrusive Thoughts: What’s Happening to Me?
Sabrina Rudin grew up expecting motherhood to come naturally to her. She was raised holistically, she ate well, she meditated, she had manifested the pregnancy. She had the nursery. She was ready.
She left the hospital and felt nothing like she expected.
In this episode, Sabrina shares the story of her postpartum OCD — the intrusive thoughts that flooded in, the terror of thinking something was fu
When the Baby Arrives and Dad Falls Apart
When Kevin Maguire became a dad for the second time, he experienced something few new fathers are screened for or even warned about: paternal postpartum depression.
His son wouldn't stop crying, and Kevin couldn't make it stop. He took the dog out, sat on a bench, and started bawling himself — because he didn't understand what he was experiencing.
Kevin is the author of The New Fatherhood, a Subst
IVF, Miscarriage, then Barack Obama
Hannah Bronfman thought getting pregnant would be easy. She'd spent a decade in wellness, she was healthy, she was young. Then came two and a half years of trying, a miscarriage, failed cycles, and eventually IVF.
Ten days after finally giving birth to their son Preston — in the middle of a pandemic — she virtually interviewed Barack Obama. She was wearing an adult diaper.
Hannah and her husband B
I Wanted to Be a Different Kind of Dad
Becoming a dad can bring up a surprising thought:
“What if I become my father?”
Dr. Becky talks with writer Aymann Ismail about the emotional reality of early fatherhood — the parts men are rarely encouraged to say out loud. Aymann opens up about wanting to be a different kind of dad than the one he grew up with, the panic and shame he felt during those first exhausting weeks with a newborn, and h
I Needed Proof I Was a Good Mom
You love your baby more than anything. So why does it sometimes feel like your baby… doesn’t like you?
In this episode, Dr. Becky talks with therapist, author, and mom of two Erin Schlozman about the moment early motherhood cracked open everything she thought she knew about competence, control, and what it means to be “good” at something.
Erin came into motherhood as someone who always hit the mil
Will I Ever Feel Like Myself Again?
Morgan Radford thought she knew herself before becoming a mom: adventurous, ambitious, always chasing novelty and new experiences. Then motherhood arrived — along with postpartum pain, brain fog, fear, comparison, and the shocking feeling that her body and mind no longer belonged to her.
In this deeply honest conversation NBC News anchor and author Morgan Radford talks with Dr. Becky about the par
I Love My Baby... and I'm So Bored
Myleik Teele thought she’d thrive in new motherhood. She was organized, capable, ambitious, and great at figuring things out. But after her baby arrived, she found herself feeling something she never expected: bored.
In this episode, Dr. Becky and Myleik talk honestly about the monotony of early parenting, the loss of spontaneity and identity, and the shame so many parents feel when reality doesn’
What If I Don’t Feel a Bond With My Baby?
What if you don’t feel that immediate rush of love after your baby is born?
In this episode, Dr. Becky sits down with writer and mom Ruthie Ackerman to talk about something many parents experience—but almost no one says out loud: what if the bond doesn’t come right away?
Ruthie shares what those early weeks actually felt like for her—watching her husband connect easily with their baby while she wo
Dr. Becky's 4pm Dread
In the early days of new parenthood, there are moments no one really prepares you for.
For Dr. Becky, it was 4pm.
Every day, as the light started to fade, a wave of dread would roll in—heavy, confusing, and hard to name. Along with a thought that felt even harder: “I can’t do this.”
In this deeply personal solo episode, Dr. Becky shares her own early postpartum experience—the identity shift, the c
"Nobody Told Me This Would Happen" — with Caro Chambers
My whole life has changed, and nobody even told me this would happen.
If you're feeling this way after the arrival of your child, you're not alone.
In the first episode of Rattled from Good Inside, Dr. Becky sits with writer and mom-of-four Caro Chambers — author of What to Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking — who walks her back to the 6:30 morning when her life quietly, completely shifted. The
"What If I Hurt My Baby?" — with Leah Smart
What if I hurt my baby?
If this question has ever run through your head — even once — you are not the only one.
Dr. Becky sits with writer, executive coach, and mom Leah Smart, who opens up about living with perinatal anxiety and the intrusive thoughts she didn't know had a name. They unpack what intrusive thoughts actually are, why they happen, and the reframe that changed everything for Leah: yo
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“Rattled” is a podcast about the moments when new parenthood shakes you. It’s for new, expecting, and first-time parents navigating pregnancy, postpartum, and life with a newborn — parents who are second-guessing themselves, their choices, and their identity. In each episode, Dr. Becky and the Good Inside team will slow things down, tackle one honest yet difficult question, and hear from listeners
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