Perinatal Groups Miami

FREE Community Support brought to you by The Gathering Place in partnership with Beyond The Birth

 

In The Round

You are not alone. Join our trimester specific weekly groups that prioritize the wellness of your whole person. We hold space for all the messy and joyous parts of pregnancy.

These online groups have the added benefit of providing the opportunity to build lasting relationships with other families and building your network of prenatal and postpartum support. Our group facilitators— trained therapists, experienced doulas and health educators — help to guide the group’s discussions around pregnancy and postpartum topics, covering everything from normal pregnancy symptoms to crafting a birth plan to common challenges with newborn care.

Groups are not only an efficient way to deliver information but they impede the isolation that can come with pregnancy as well as the frustrations of social distancing and spending more time at home by creating an environment where expectant parents can learn from and support each other. You’ll have the opportunity to form lasting friendships at these sessions, and get to experience the progress of your pregnancy with other pregnant people. Let’s do this together!

This group offering is now combined with a second offering of our postpartum support group, Footsteps, on Saturday mornings starting January 2024

SATURDAYS 9AM-11AM

Group is offered in-person at Magnolia Birth House.

Footsteps

For almost eight years now. Since before there was an us, and before there was place we gathered, before The Gathering Place, there was Footsteps. A group for new parents to BE postpartum. Before there was a Biscayne Blvd building, when it was just in a little two room space in the design district, there was footsteps. And now, that it's in a cozy classroom inside of Magnolia Birth House, it still is, Footsteps.

A group, that's free, for caregivers to BE, together. Before we had grand ideas and big dreams. Before we hosted green baby fairs and big latch ons and great cloth diaper changes, before there was a doula service, and birth center, before us, there was Footsteps. Whether it was once a month with bottles of hoppy beer and freshly made beignets or once a week with babies on cushions between a bevy of wooden toys, there was Footsteps.

Then it was just led by us, now it's facilitated by an awesome volunteer team of mama-psychologists. But it's still free. And it's still for postpartum parents. And you're STILL welcome. At the heart of everything we have ever done for pregnant and parenting families in Miami is Footsteps, and its foundational idea that there should be a place to gather, and be supported. And be heard. And be seen. In all your fabulously perfect imperfection. And be accepted anyway.

So if you're looking for a place, to be. With other new caregivers. Come to Footsteps. It's still here. Every week. For you.

Every Thursday @11am-1pm EST

Footsteps is offered in-person at Magnolia Birth House.