It is so adorable!!
I'm hoping to start my assignment tonight. I did fairly well with my PND research (well, as well as you can inbetween Georgie nap times, the ironing, cooking dinner etc!!)
Does anyone else do much at their local childrens centre??
I am thinking of approaching them & asking whether or not Vici and I (of course, if Vici definitely wants to - hehe) could hold some groups there.
Here's my ideas for groups, what do you all think....
A) a 'Natural mamas' type group, where we can meet to chat about cloth nappies, baby wearing, co-sleeping, BLW, etc. etc.
B) a 'Mums in confidence' type meet, where mums can meet (with or without their lo's) to talk about PND, birth trauma, PTSD etc. (I thought of this one as when reading peoples views on PND, mums seemed to say that ordinary mum & baby groups can be too stressful, as they feel they have to keep up apperances etc.)
C) I'd like to try and have a bit of a chat with mums and dads to be about Doulaing during their antenatal classes.
Do you reckon these sound ok? If you had the option to attend, do you think you would?xx
I really enjoyed the baby group I attented with Jasmine.... I do wish I had known about it sooner though because I may have been able to get more help with feeding.
It was split into 2 groups... 1 group is called the new parent group... It is babies from birth-6 months and was a great support network.
I will admit, I think here everything is a bit more laid back. In our group everyone was pretty respectable and open to talking about just about anything... we have babywearing moms, breastfeeding moms, bottle feeding, co-sleeping moms etc. You name it, our group had it. And there was no disrespect to anyone ever.
On top of that, on the new mom group days we also had 2 health visitors set up for moms to go to get help on feeding issues whether the breastfed or bottlefed. Our HV's are pro-bfing, but I think culturally we are pretty respectable to nursing moms and formula feeding moms, so our HV's will help with bottle questions etc too. Which is excellent because support needs to be offered for everyone. They also had a scale to weigh the babies.
I really believe that people shouldn't feel ashamed of how they parent their baby. I am really grateful that our baby group is such a diverse yet respectable group. Everyone could bring something different and different experiences without feeling judged, and we can also learn alot from the different ways people parent their baby too.
We always had guest speakers come in, we had someone come in to speak about nursing bras, someone to talk about and demonstrate slings, someone to talk about carseat safety etc, one day we had someone come in and demo some basic baby massage.
And through the group you could also sign up for other things geared towards younger babys including baby yoga, baby massage, music type things... you name it .
It was wonderful group filled with information on just about anything... Everything was very comfortable and clean too... There were rockers, comfy couches everything for us moms to kick back and relax.
I was talking to my osteopath about it and she was saying the amount of people who come to her for treatment swearing that they'll never have another baby unless it's by elective section, is unbelievable.
So, July it is for me. 
These sound like really good ideas hun for a group and I am sure a lot of people will attend ..
