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Breastfeeding Support Group 2024

Free

with Brooke Cottman

Calendar Current session started Jan 2, 2024 at 9:30 am

This free peer support group is a great opportunity to meet other new breastfeeding parents in your community, share experiences, and receive postpartum and newborn care information and support. A lactation consultant facilitates the group and can answer your questions.

Please register here to receive log-in or call-in information for this weekly group which meets on Tuesdays 9:30am - 11:30am.

This group meets in person (with a hybrid Zoom option, too) at the MaineHealth Medical Building, 5 Bucknam Rd, Falmouth. (Ground floor, lots of parking!)

FREE but registration is required to receive Zoom info. Join anytime throughout the year. New members are always welcome!

Grieving Still 2024
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Grieving Still 2024

Free

Remembering and loving babies lost during pregnancy. A support group for parents who have experienced a spontaneous pregnancy loss at any gestation. A place to remember, share, grieve, and heal. Third Thursday of every month; 6 - 7:30p.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, our perinatal loss and bereavement support groups will meet virtually via Zoom. These support groups are a safe and supportive space to share your thoughts and emotions. To join, please email Kelly Chicoine at Kelly.Chicoine@mainehealth.org. She will send you the login information. Please email her by 3:00 pm on the day of the support group.

Healing Together 2024
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Healing Together 2024

Free

A support group for those who have experienced the medical interruption of pregnancy. Healing Together provides parents a safe place to grieve, share experiences, give and receive support, and remember. Second Thursday of every month; 6 - 7:30p.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, our perinatal loss and bereavement support groups will meet virtually via Zoom. These support groups are a safe and supportive space to share your thoughts and emotions. To join, please email Kelly Chicoine at Kelly.Chicoine@mainehealth.org . She will send you the login information. Please email her by 3:00 pm on the day of the support group.

Perinatal Mental Health Support
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Perinatal Mental Health Support

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with Postpartum Support International

Online support groups, education and peer support for parents experiencing perinatal mental health disorders during pregnancy and the first 12 months after childbirth. Contact Postpartum Support International: https://postpartum.net/get-help/ or call or text the PSI Helpline 1-800-944-4773.  For immediate support call or text the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline 1-833-852-6262.

RESOLVE of New England
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RESOLVE of New England

Free

A monthly peer support group for men and women who are struggling to conceive or carry a pregnancy to term. 

Please register with Resolve New England https://www.resolvenewengland.org/support/#rsvp.

 

New Parents Circle 2024

Free

with Ellen Kunkle

Come together to share the story of your parenting journey and receive support and inspiration from other new parents.

Discussion topics include sleep, feeding, nurturing yourself, and relationship changes. This group is flexible to address your own needs and concerns. This group is facilitated by a childbirth educator who is also a trained doula and breastfeeding counselor.

This group meets in person (with a hybrid Zoom option, too) at the MaineHealth Medical Building, 5 Bucknam Rd, Falmouth. (Ground floor, lots of parking!)

This group meets every Thursday morning from 10am - 12pm. Please register here. When you register you will receive the zoom link to log in.

 

The group is free but registration is required. Join anytime throughout the year. New members are always welcome!





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