First Time Moms Groups:

  • Sharing birth or adoptions stories
  • Sharing the story of your baby’s name
  • Practical concerns like: feeding, sleep, comforting and encouraging development
  • Relationships, communication & sharing parenting responsibilities
  • Returning to work – or not
  • Others caring for your child & Finding childcare
  • Identity
  • You and your body: physical recovery, pelvic floor, health, exercise options, mother rage, postpartum sexuality, birth control (if applicable), body image, postpartum clothes options

Second & Third Time Moms Groups:

  • Sibling and family adjustment
  • Changes in behavior in the older child/ren
  • Grief over the loss of time for your relationship with your older child/ren
  • Finding a way to balance caring for the needs of a new baby and your older child/ren
  • Renegotiating sharing parenting responsibilities if you are parenting with a partner
  • Getting a break – which is even harder now
  • Physical recovery again if you are a birth mom
  • Ways to meet your own needs in the midst of the increased needs of your family
  • Finding ways to enjoy the expanded family unit you have become
  • Returning to work – or not
  • Identity