Dr. Frances Malone, PNP, PhD · Intuitive Parenting

Infancy:
Exhaustion,
Connection
& Delight.

You are not failing your baby. Your nervous system is asking for help.

$244 · Self-paced · Available immediately · Includes supplemental recording

Enroll Now — $244 What's Inside
Dr. Frances Malone
CredentialsPhD · Biobehavioral Nursing · UW
ResearchNIH-Funded · Published Scientist
ClinicalPICU · Transplant · SCH
Practice25 Years Infant & Child Health
Who This Is For

You lead every room
you walk into.
And you are on the floor.

You are accomplished. You lead every room you walk into. You are credentialed, capable, and used to being the most competent person in any situation.

You are now at home, in love with your baby, and completely undone by it.

You are exhausted in a way you have no category for. You are angry with yourself for struggling. You are alone with it — because how do you tell anyone that the thing you wanted most is the thing bringing you to your knees?

You have read the books. You have followed the advice. You are doing everything right and it is still this hard.

This course is for you.

Dr. Frances Malone
Doctorate PhD, Biobehavioral Nursing & Basic Science · University of Washington
Post-Doctoral Fellow Biobehavioral Nursing · NIH/NINR Training Grant · UW
Clinician Pediatric Nurse Practitioner · PICU · Transplant · Seattle Children's
Researcher NIH-funded · Clinical trials · Stress physiology
Practice Malone Pediatrics · Founder · 25 years in infant and child health
What Is Actually Happening

This is not a character flaw.
This is neuroscience.

The early months of infancy are a neurological event — for your baby, whose brain is developing at a rate it will never again match, and for you, whose nervous system is responding to sleep deprivation, identity rupture, hormonal upheaval, and the relentless demand of a human being who needs everything from you, all the time.

Your nervous system and your baby's are in constant conversation. The way you regulate — or cannot — shapes the environment your infant's brain is developing inside.

Caring for your nervous system is not a luxury. It is the most important clinical intervention available to your child right now.

"When your nervous system is steady, your baby's can borrow it. That is not philosophy. That is physiology."
The ZEN Framework

Zero Emotional Noise.

ZEN does not mean you are always calm. You are allowed to be angry, frustrated, overwhelmed, and sad. In fact, your baby needs to see your real emotions — that is how they learn what feelings look like and how they move through a body.

What ZEN means is this: nothing unspoken, unresolved, or tense in your system that your baby has to work around in order to be with you.

Your baby is reading you constantly. Not your words — your body, your tone, your pace, your presence. What looks like a behavior problem is very often a baby responding to unspoken tension in the room.

When your ZEN shifts, the interaction shifts.

Feel your body. Clear it. Then reconnect.

That is the practice. That is what this course teaches you to do — not in theory, but in real time. In the crying. At 3am. In the moment before you respond.

What's Inside

Four modules.
One tool you will use for the rest of your parenting life.

01
Why Your Baby Feels Everything You're Hiding
The neuroscience of why your baby reads your physiological state — not your words, not your intentions — and why trying harder backfires. This module gives you the clinical understanding that makes everything else make sense.
02
How Bonding Actually Works in the Body
Bonding is not a feeling you fall into or don't. It is a physiology — a synchrony between two nervous systems. This module covers co-regulation, cortisol, the developing brain, and what secure attachment actually requires. The good enough parent concept, named and grounded in evidence. This is where the shame has a chance to lift.
03
The ZEN Framework: Zero Emotional Noise
The core of the course. The check-in. The physiological sigh — the most researched single breathing technique for rapid downregulation of the stress response. The practice of clearing your system before you respond to your baby. You will do this in real time in the recording. You will feel it shift in your body before the module ends.
04
Why We Practice This, and What Changes When We Do
The 3am micro-protocol. Colic and persistent crying as ZEN check-in opportunities. What shifts over time — not a promise, a clinical observation across twenty-five years and thousands of families. And why what you are building right now is not just for your baby. It is for you.
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Supplemental Recording
A guided meditation or subconscious rewiring track designed for the moments when parenting is full-contact and everything feels like too much. Available any time — during a night feed, in the bath, in the wind-down.
What You Walk Away With

Not reassurance.
Tools.

The ability to regulate your nervous system in real time — not after the storm, but inside it.
A clear, shame-free understanding of why you react the way you do — and what to do instead.
The shift from reactive to responsive. From surviving the moment to being present inside it.
A primary tool you will use for the rest of your parenting life.
The clinical knowledge to understand what is actually happening between you and your baby — and why it matters.
About Dr. Frances

I know this from
both sides.

I had kept dying children alive in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. I had managed ventilated infants through transplant at Seattle Children's. I had been first responder to pediatric codes. I had published NIH-funded research on cytokine response and intestinal barrier function in the most medically fragile children on earth.

I was, by every measurable standard, one of the most qualified people in the room.

And then I had my first baby.

He nursed every ninety minutes around the clock for six months. He had a tongue tie that no one caught. I was exhausted in a way I had no category for. My partner would come home and find me in the bath — sometimes for the fifth time that day — because it was the only thing that helped.

I didn't know it then. But I was regulating my own nervous system by pure survival instinct. My body knew what it needed before my training had a name for it.

Years later, I was on the phone with a mother. Her baby was inconsolable. She was inconsolable. And without thinking, I noticed what I was doing — rocking, breathing in a particular way, grounding myself — and my voice was carrying it. She grabbed onto it. Not because I fixed anything. Because my nervous system was steady enough that hers could borrow it.

That was the moment I understood what I had been building without knowing I was building it. I called it ZEN. And I realized it was exactly what I had needed when I was on the floor.

Dr. Frances Malone
Investment

$244

This is a Loom screen-share recording with slides — four modules of 10–15 minutes each plus a supplemental audio recording. Available immediately. Work through it at your own pace. Return to any module as many times as you need.

This is not a wellness video. This is a clinical framework from a PhD-trained, NIH-funded pediatric nurse practitioner with twenty-five years of experience — and her own reckoning with this exact season.

Enroll Now — $244

Questions? DrFrances@intuitive-parenting.org

"Babies don't need you to be perfect. Just present."

— Dr. Frances Malone, PNP, PhD