You don't have to do this alone: MamaSocial, mum friendship and maternal mental health in the Netherlands
We close Maternal Mental Health Month with something the research says matters just as much as therapy: community. Rachael Forester — therapist and new lead of MamaSocial — joins Dam Parenting to talk about why mum friends aren't optional. The science of co-regulation. Why female friendship in early motherhood is neurologically unique. And what MamaSocial — the community space for international mothers across the Netherlands — actually looks like to walk into for the first time.
If you've moved to the Netherlands, newly pregnant or just looking to fine more mom frirneds and you're doing this…
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