A 6-week Virtual New Mother Support Group, includes a weekly group support circle on a live video call, optional private calls with Erica, and an ongoing, private community forum.
Join us in an intimate group. We will meet Saturdays from 9:30-11am. Contact me for future start dates.
“The most difficult part of birth is the first year afterwards. It is the year of travail- when the soul of a woman must birth the mother inside her. The emotional labor pains of becoming a mother are far greater than the physical pangs of birth; these are the growing surges of your heart as it pushes out selfishness and fear and makes room for sacrifice and love. It is a private and silent birth of the soul, but it is no less holy than the event of childbirth, perhaps it is even more sacred" Unknown
Receive non-judgmental support around your birth experience & feelings about parenting, tips on physical and emotional healing, a support system where you can say and be all of who you are and want to be.
Gain resources and practices to support your entire family's well-being. Talk about sleep, feeding, following baby's cues, self-care, going back to work, how to ask for what you need, and more and more. We talk about it all.
Life with a baby can be overwhelming, amazing, life-shifting to say the least. Erica has been there herself and has real passion around guiding new moms as they navigate their new lives.
Erica is known for providing an opportunity for a joyful, and meaningful group experience for new moms. She's a doula of 16yrs, a mom to an 18mo old boy, and has traveled extensively around the globe connecting with birthing people of all cultures
Gain resources and practices to support your entire family's well-being. Talk about sleep, feeding, following baby's cues, self-care, going back to work, how to ask for what you need, and more and more. We talk about it all.
Life with a baby can be overwhelming, amazing, life-shifting to say the least. Erica has been there herself and has real passion around guiding new moms as they navigate their new lives.
Erica is known for providing an opportunity for a joyful, and meaningful group experience for new moms. She's a doula of 16yrs, a mom to an 18mo old boy, and has traveled extensively around the globe connecting with birthing people of all cultures
"Just wanted to thank you for having us round yesterday. It was a really wonderful session and
super empowering hearing and sharing stories and struggles with other mums. I look forward to ding this over the coming weeks!" Hannah
"Erica's support group was there for me at a a time when I really needed it. Becoming a mother
was the most magical and at times difficult experience and Erica's group really helped me by providing a safe space with other new mothers to talk about our shared experience. I am so lucky and happy to have found this group." Leah
"Erica was the perfect support leader for my postpartum recovery. I had an unexpected cesarean and was definitely looking for an outlet to share my experience and complete my expectations. I
also had trouble and pain with breast feeding and she gave great advice and support to get me through the hump. I got to hear experiences from other new moms in neighborhood, and began to understand I was not alone, we all have our unique journey to and through motherhood. Erica’s gentle approach is warm and welcoming, she guides the conversation through questions, and opens up the circle for contrasting approaches. She doesn’t tell you what to do, rather she creates the space for you to figure out the best path for yourself and your new born, whether it is through breast-feeding topics, or childcare, first travel planning , or just the topic of asking for a little more help from your partner or community. I felt supported so much, that by my 3rd month, I felt confident enough to set up my own firm from home, so I could take on new architecture projects in Brooklyn while spending more time at home with my Apollo. Recommend 100%!" Julia
"I wish Erica could be our neighbor next door, so we could keep standing in her sunshine" Kathryn
What's included:
~A weekly 90 minute LIVE group call (option for video or voice)
~A weekly private check-in call with Erica for added support (optional). These private calls give moms the extended and nurturing support that a postpartum doula, midwife, or other childbirth professional provides.
~A private online support forum is included so that the group can share updates, give and receive advice, receive Erica's wide rolodex of postpartum resources, and hear from Erica throughout the week.
~Access to Erica on the larger community forum
Contact Erica for pricing, scholarships, and payment plans.
Each group brings a unique set of women (no more than 6), and Erica caters to everyone's interests and needs in a very special and focused way. She’s one of the most tuned in, empathic, loving, generous-with-her-time-and-energy women out there!
Group calls begin with individual check ins, and then are guided based on the weekly topic and everyone’s special requests.
Topics may include:
- breast and bottle feeding - insights on any challenges that can be made without being in person
- normalcy of changing moods and energy levels - blues, depression, normal ups and downs
- guidance with caregivers - hiring a nanny, a doula, not sure how to ask family/friends for support?
- self-care and how to make it happen - on the daily and the hourly
- baby care tips including soothing, following cues - all the what’s and how’s of being with a newborn
- following your own gut as you get to know your baby - enough he said, she said : what feels right to you?
- self and body image - we talk about it all, and make action steps and hold each other accountable
- navigating new friendships and making amends with changing relationships
- how to bring a touch of mindfulness to your overwhelm - practices and tools to bring in more peace
- safely expressing true feelings around the transition to parenthood
- back to work transitioning and feelings - action steps for success and getting your village together
- and much, much more
Erica's passion for facilitating New Mom Support Groups came after she received the "relief, care, attention, love, and community" from a group she attended herself in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, with Jenna Bourgeois
when she and her newborn were just 6wks old. She took a 90 min bus ride just to get there each week! She left her doula badge at that door, and knew her new mom self needed a place to be "raw, heard, seen, unraveled, and re-sown" with the help of some new mama friends she could go a little deeper with. From there, Erica held New Mom Support groups in her own Greenpoint living room and then realized she could reach women on a national and global level - so the online program was born.
**This is an amazing opportunity to be supported with and by like minded women, and to have access to a highly seasoned labor & postpartum doula, and lactation counselor, for a full six weeks!**
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