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Not medical advice, just a conversation between moms._ Pregnancy has a way of making you feel responsible for someone before you have ever met them. For actress Chloe Bridges and OBGYN Dr. Charis Chambers, that meant navigating the identity shift of new motherhood while also learning about respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a highly contagious respiratory virus that is the number one cause of hospitalization for babies in the United States with nearly 50% of RSV hospitalizations occurring during the first 3 months of life.
Both moms built a trusted village of support to help navigate – and have a lot to say about what they wish they had known sooner. In a candid conversation on The Motherly Podcast, Chloe and Dr. Chambers get real about the challenging transition into motherhood, learning to ask for (and accept) help, and what every expecting mom should know about helping protect their newborn from RSV infection. **Chloe Bridges** is an actress with a career spanning film and television.
A Columbia University graduate, she welcomed her first child, her son Beau, with her husband, actor and comedian Adam Devine, in February 2024. **Dr. Charis Chambers** is a board-certified OBGYN and fellowship-trained pediatric and adolescent gynecologist known to millions online as The Period Doctor. She is the Chief Medical Officer at the cycle-tracking app Clue and the author of The Period and Puberty Parenting Revolution.
She lives with her husband, Zachary, and their son, Joshua. **Chloe:** I think for me it was that everything is a phase. In the early days, I would get so nervous if something went wrong that day, you know, if he didn’t nap or wasn’t a good sleeper. I’d be like, ‘Oh my gosh, he’s never going to sleep.
He’s always going to be a bad sleeper.’ And I just had to learn that a good day today doesn’t necessarily mean a good day tomorrow. A bad day today doesn’t mean a bad day tomorrow. Everything is just constantly changing and in flux. **Dr.
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