Mamas Circle - Newborns
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Everything is better with friends - including raising your baby! Come join a community of moms for weekly conversation celebrating the joys and sharing the challenges of having a baby. We'll meet once a week to discuss feeding, sleeping, self-care, and more. All moms are welcome!
This open and supportive group of moms navigating life with a newborn will help get your questions answered, provide space to offer tips to others, and create lasting friendships for you and your little one. Mamas Circle is open to moms and their newborn to pre-crawling babies (most babies are 0-6 months old). Join when you feel ready - the group doesn't include movement so moms can start anytime, even before being cleared to exercise.
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Upcoming sessions:
March 18 - April 29, 2020 (no meeting April 15) Wednesdays 12:30-2:00pm Location: Joan's home (near Van Ness) Facilitator: Joan Schaefer April 1 - May 6, 2020 Wednesdays 12:00-1:30pm Location: Circle Yoga (near Friendship Heights) Facilitator: Elizabeth Hubley Additional late spring and summer dates will be announced soon! Please complete the form below and you'll be the first to know when registration opens. |
Investment: $200 for 6 weeks
If you would like to participate but the cost of the group is a challenge please get in touch, a few partial scholarships are available for each group. Have questions? Read the Mamas Circle FAQ. |
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Circle Yoga Cooperative
3838 Northampton St. NW Washington, DC 20015 Circle Yoga is a wonderful, local cooperative yoga studio and also home to our Prenatal Yoga Classes. |
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Joan's Home
Near the intersection of Albemarle St NW and 30th St NW Washington, DC 20008 Joan hosts Mamas Circle groups in her beautiful playroom - surrounded by trees and with plenty of space for mamas to sit and babies to play. Exact address sent to participants upon registration. |
Looking for something else? Mamas Circle Babies & Toddlers is for moms staying home or working part-time outside the home and Mamas Circle Weekend Edition groups meet once per month on Saturdays. Both are for moms and 0-3 year olds.
Clicking submit will take you to the payment page. If you are registering for a group waitlist please don't pay at this time. If you prefer to pay by cash, check, or venmo simply send me an e-mail. Please note before registering that we are unable to provide refunds for Mamas Circle groups.
No topic is sacred within the confines of Mamas Circle. This is a circle of intimacy, support, humor and honesty. And I have relied on these other new mothers to help me see things in the right light, to find answers to things like an incessant diaper rash, and to keep moving forward through the haze of the first few months. I’m happy just to be in the same room with these women, their babies and our fellow mom and guide, Elizabeth.
-Sara S.
Washington, DC
It was a wonderful experience; thank you for facilitating Elizabeth! Your depth of knowledge and pragmatic philosophy were super helpful for me too. Even as a second time mom, I have some of the same challenges where I could use a new perspective, but also many new ones to navigate and sort out.
-Kim B.
Washington, DC
My daughter just turned one and I am still in touch with several moms and babies from Mamas Circle. I liked it so well that I did a second session of it, and it was a super helpful way to commiserate with and learn from other women, make friends, and become confident in my own parenting, such that I could give advice to other new moms. It was also an excellent way to get out of the house in the early weeks.
-Kristen L..
Washington, DC
I always wanted to join a group after I had baby so that I could meet other moms going through the same thing. My sister always told me to have a supportive network because you can't do it alone. I love Mamas Circle! It is just what I was looking for: a safe, kind, and supportive group to get me through the first couple of months of being a new mom. I look forward to seeing Elizabeth and all the moms and babies every week!
-Kate F.
Silver Spring, MD
I love Mamas Circle. It allowed me to stay in touch with my wonderful friends from prenatal yoga, meet their new babies, share birth stories, and see them become moms at the same time as me. I felt safe and comfortable sharing the joy and the craziness of being a mother. So many doubts, so many questions... Mamas Circle is the place to find answers and feel better about ourselves.
-Marion L.
Silver Spring, MD