Campaign Donations Speak Louder Than Platitudes

It’s a New Year and new political leadership in our country. With the inauguration of President Biden, I feel a huge weight has been lifted. The toll of four long years of chaos, lies, racism, and meanness, capped by a failed insurrection from the one-term presidency of Donald Trump has been heavy. I became a first-time mom to a baby boy during the last months of the Trump administration. The relief that I feel because my son will start his formative years with a compassionate, caring, and family-oriented president and see a woman of color serve as vice president is perhaps the best parenting gift I have been given.

The other best parenting gift — my baby started sleeping through the night when he was five months old. When I tell people this, they respond in disbelief as if I just levitated in front of them.

Though it may seem like getting a baby to sleep through the night is the equivalent to performing magic, legions of new moms attribute our success to one lady: a bubbly, platinum coiffed, Target and yoga pants-enthusiast, neonatal nurse named Cara with a social media empire of more than a million followers under the paronomasia Taking Cara Babies. The core of her business is to sell tired parents access to her digital classes with strategies to get babies to sleep through the night. She also advises on topics beyond sleep to guide and support new parents.