Over the last years of Hope Centre’s involvement in these beautiful communities we have often witnessed the distress and struggle of pregnant mothers or mothers of newborns 👶.

A lack of awareness around pregnancy and especially birth, easy access to service provision, transportation to the hospital when labor starts and the fact that many moms are themselves still very young when they have their first child create a stressful situation for mom and baby. So our team decided to help out a few years ago and create Baby Belly n Me as part of our First 1000 Days initiative, a weekly get together for pregnant moms 🤰. Currently there is about 12 women coming, some are first time moms, some have children already but still enjoy the input, devotions and fellowship! The topics covered so far in the current group are: how you get pregnant, giving birth and baby care. They will still talk about breast feeding, health and maybe a session with the dads! Before baby arrives, we are also able to assist with a starter kit, containing nappies and clothes.
Baby Belly n Me is a place to get informed and empowered, as well as a place to ask questions, share concerns and encourage each other. We have seen amazing new strength in past participants and deeper attachment between moms and their babies! And the cool thing is, once baby is there and growing like a little weed (because we all know they do ☺️) they can join MommynMe, a place to connect with and learn more about their 0-2 year olds… more about that soon, so like our page to not miss that post 👍