Contact Naps

Contact Naps

Update: 2025-11-19
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This week, Claire and Kate are talking about everyone’s favorite time – naptime! They reflect on the unique challenges of putting a baby down to sleep for a nap vs. letting them fall asleep on you for a contact nap. “Should” you cherish all the contact naps you can, or “should” you make sure you put your baby down so they don’t come to rely on you to fall asleep? Joe shares his trick to help stay in the present for these fleeting moments, and no one’s surprised that it may or may not make everyone cry. 

Weekly Plugs:

Butterfly kisses (the song and the act)

Central Park in fall

Harlem Meer

Richard Kind

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Editing, recording, post production and dad insights by Joe Leonardo. 


Music by Christopher Morucci.



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