Bringing Baby Home

So you’re growing your family. Congratulations! 

But let me ask you a question. Have you thought about how this big change may affect your relationship?  

Being a parent is full of ups and downs. Often, the downs cause so much stress that it starts affecting relationships.    

Having a newborn is a joyful event, but it sure isn’t easy. Never-ending laundry. Night after night of no sleep. Money stress. It’s no wonder that marriages tend to take a hit. Research shows that over two-thirds of new parents experience conflict in their relationships, which leads to misunderstandings, disappointment, and hurt feelings.  

But it doesn’t have to be this way. You and your partner can prepare yourself for new parenthood and all the ups and downs that come with it. Parenting can be an experience that brings you closer together, instead of driving you farther apart. 

I facilitate an educational parenting class called Bringing Baby Home. Bringing Baby Home is virtual or in-person (in Washington, D.C.) for new parents that can help you to strengthen your relationship and create a healthy, nourishing environment for your child.   

In this workshop, you and your partner will learn how to:  

• Strengthen your friendship with each other
•  Express respect and admiration for each other 
• Build love maps, a unique intervention created by The Gottman Institute 
• Maintain a positive perspective about parenting and each other 
• Recognize warning signs of a relationship meltdown 
• Keep the romance and passion alive in your relationship 
• Create shared meaning and values 
• Solve problems and conflicts constructively 
• Build a culture of appreciation for your family 
• Connect and play with your baby 
• Understand common mental health issues that can come along with pregnancy and new parenthood 
• Create connection rituals 
• Develop a healthy parent-child attachment 
• Become the strongest parenting team that you can be 
• and more. 

This workshop is based on decades of research conducted by The Gottman Institute. In other words, it was designed, using scientific evidence, to specifically help new parents strengthen their relationship and build a positive parenting environment. You can read more about The Gottman Institute here. 

The research-backed benefits of Bringing Baby Home include:  

• Better marital satisfaction 
• Less relationship hostility 
• Lower rates of postpartum depression 
• Decreased likelihood of divorce  
• Not only can this workshop for new parents improve your relationship, it also makes you better parents. 

When you and your partner build a healthy emotional foundation for your family during the very early stages of your child’s life, the benefits of that will last well past their newborn years.  

When you make the decision to learn how to co-parent effectively and raise your child in a healthy emotional environment, your child will be more likely to: 

• do better in school
• have better social relationships
•  be both physically and emotionally healthier  

Bringing Baby Home is for any parenting couple, including: 

• pregnant couples 
• same-sex or LGBTQ+ couples
• pre-adoptive or adoptive parents 
• foster parents parents of young children 
• grandparents caretaking young children

The best time to go through Bringing Baby Home is before your baby arrives -- but many couples have successfully completed this program even after becoming parents. If you and your parenting partner are committed to strengthening your relationship and building a positive environment for your baby, then it’s not yet too late. 

 Ready to get started? Get in touch with me to schedule a workshop for yourself or for your organization.