**Bonded from the Start is a podcast about perinatal mental health and infant and early childhood development — two fields that shape the same families and rarely get talked about in the same room.**
**Hosted by Carina Lane, founder of Mindfulstarts, a parenting coach & perinatal therapist, and Laura Todd, founder of Early Bonds Therapy, a perinatal and infant/early childhood therapist. Each episode bridges what a parent is carrying and what a baby is communicating. Topics cover what we, as clinicians, run into every day through our work with individuals in this period, alongside other professionals who specialize in these topics.**
**We talk about matrescence, perinatal mental health conditions (PMHCs), attachment, co-regulation, responsive caregiving, and the postpartum months nobody prepares you for. It's a reflective lens holding space for both parent and infant to be seen as individuals and as a unit. All in language you can actually use.**
**If you're a parent, these are honest conversations that normalize the hard parts, make sense of your baby's behavior, and take the shame out of the days that feel like too much. If you're a clinician, birth worker, educator, home visitor, or early intervention provider, this podcast will provide relationship-based, reflective, culturally grounded practice you can carry into your next visit.**
**Every family starts somewhere. These are the earliest relationships, the ones that teach a baby whether the world feels safe and teach a parent who they're becoming.**
**No perfection scripts. No quick-fix tips. Just curiosity, developmental science, and the belief that support shapes outcomes.**
**New episodes drop weekly on Wednesdays. Wherever you are in this transition, you don't have to figure it out alone.**
