You Have Everything Ready to Care for the Baby – But Who Will be Taking Care of You?
Calling all expectant parents! Please join Park Slope Parents and Paige Bellenbaum, LCSW, Founding Director of The Motherhood Center of New York, for a Mental Health Check-In for Expectant Parents.
Pregnancy can be joyous and exciting, and also a very overwhelming identity shift with emotional peaks and valleys. Park Slope Parents and The Motherhood Center have teamed up to help you prepare for your parental journey through the lens of mental health. Join us to learn more about the difference between the “baby blues” and postpartum depression / anxiety, coping skills to ease stress for expectant parents, and how to support one another through this life changing transition.
Paige will guide us through:
- How to effectively use this time to prepare for the arrival of your baby.
- Skills and techniques to communicate more effectively with partners and family.
- What it means to be a “good enough” parent
- The concept of “both/and” and the annihilation of the word “should.”
- Division of labor tips, asking for help, and resisting the urge to fix.
- Love languages and how those can help ease the transition to parenthood
- How to recognize if feelings of anxiety and sadness are normal or require additional support and treatment.
Becoming a parent is one of the most amazing, beautiful, wonderful things you will ever do. It can, at times, also be the hardest. We can help make it a smooth transition into your new identity as a parent.
Park Slope Parents recognizes that the parenting journey takes many forms. Whether you are a carrying parent, non-carrying parent, adoptive parent, parent with a surrogate, or single parent, you are welcome here! In particular, we want to encourage dads/partners to join the discussion—your perspective is super valuable and something we need more of.
The Zoom link will be in your confirmation email.
This Zoom will not be recorded.
Paige Bellenbaum, LCSW, PMH-C
Education and Government Relations Consultant
Paige Bellenbaum, LCSW, PMH-C, is the Education and Government Relations Consultant at The Motherhood Center of New York. A licensed clinical social worker and national perinatal mental health expert, she was a founding director of The Motherhood Center for almost a decade. She is also an adjunct professor at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College. Paige has over two decades of experience in public policy, advocacy, and clinical practice. She was instrumental in the passage of New York State legislation mandating PMAD education and screening in hospitals. A frequent speaker and media contributor, she collaborates with city and state agencies to improve maternal mental health outcomes.
