Feeding Support Groups

Breastfeeding, chestfeeding and pumping support groups have gone virtual during the pandemic. Don’t go through it alone! Connect with lactation experts and other parents walking the same journey.

Here is a list of current online meetings as of Feb 2025

**Subject to change. Check with the facilitator**

BOOBIES & BABIES

• Free In person lactation support group for lactating people using all types of feeding methods.

• 1st Friday of every month at 12:30p.m. at Proactive Health & Wellness in Gahanna (440 Beecher Road)

• Run by Aly Romot of Mind Body Baby Doula and Hannah Wills of Little Latch Lactation

• Contact alyromot@gmail.com to confirm group***

  LITTLE DOVE SUPPORT GROUP

  • Hosted at The Ohio Birth Center

  • Check Little Dove’s Instagram account for upcoming dates: https://www.instagram.com/little.dove.llc/

Nurture Columbus

• Free virtual and weekly infant feeding group

• 10:00a.m. every Thursday

• Sign up at www.nurturecolumbus.com and select “SCHEDULE NOW” to register

Mount Carmel Breastfeeding Support Groups

• Mount Carmel offers weekly in-person support groups. Mothers/birthing people are welcome with their baby.

• Saint Ann’s: Tuesdays 10:30am - 11:30am at the Breastfeeding Center located on the first floor of the maternity pavilion.

• Breastfeeding Support Hotline: 614-234-MILK (6455)

  La Leche League of Ohio

  • Several local groups are meeting online including Upper Arlington and Hilliard via Google Meet.

  • Visit https://www.lllohio.org/map/groups-by-county/ for contact information for local groups near you.

24/7 FREE Breastfeeding Hotline 

• The Appalachian Breastfeeding Network (ABN) operates the toll-free 24/7 hotline with live, trained lactation professionals. Services are available free of charge to all callers, including mothers, their families and partners, expectant parents, and health care providers.

• The hotline is available at 1-888-588-3423. For more information on the hotline or Appalachian Breastfeeding Network, please visit https://www.appalachianbreastfeedingnetwork.org/

FREE Breastfeeding & Postpartum Prep Courses

I always say - education is power. Education is comfort.

Here are a few FREE resources to begin learning about breastfeeding/chestfeeding and postpartum.

Tinyhood - Breastfeeding 101

Milkology - Free Breastfeeding Course

Pebble Parents - Postpartum Webinars

Lactation Link - Free 6 Day Breastfeeding Course

Breastfeeding Resource Center - Free Prenatal Breastfeeding Course

Baby’s Best Beginning Youtube Channel

All of these courses are online.

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The Power of Affirmations and How To Use Them

Your mind is a powerful force. How you interpret emotions produces physical reactions in your body. If you see police lights in your rear view mirror, what emotion sweeps over you? What physical reactions do you have to those emotions?

In HypnoBirthing we recognize the power of the mind and use it to your advantage to have a more comfortable, positive birth experience. 

Affirmations are one piece of the puzzle. 

Affirmations are short, positive phrases that help reinforce a particular outcome. 

“My body is made for birth.”

“I trust in my body and baby.”

“I am stronger than my surges because I am my surges.”

“I relax my jaw and breathe down to my baby.”

Here’s a simple guide to help you begin your relaxation journey:

1. Find a space in your home or in nature where you feel comfortable, safe and at peace. 

2. Get comfortable and nestle in. 

3. Focus on your breathing. Put intention on each inhale followed by a longer exhale. At first this may seem distracting, but with practice you will instinctually find your flow.

4. Choose music that calms your busy mind. You probably already have access to it - from Pandora, Spotify, Amazon Music, etc. Search for a meditation or yoga channel. I also recommend any station with Stephen Halpern music. He composed the music for the HypnoBirthing Institute. It’s meant to help take you down into lower brain levels.

5. Repeating affirmations out loud begin to imprint the messages deeper into your subconscious. Ask your partner to read them out loud to you slowly as you relax.

Where can I find affirmations?

Here are two links to free affirmation downloads:

Ashley Carver Doula

Joyful Beginnings - Effy Rodriguez

I recommend saving each one to your phone and put them in a separate album. You or your partner can swipe through them during relaxation sessions or during labor. 

HypnoBirthing takes this process to the next level for you. Parents learn guided relaxation, meditation and hypnosis. Affirmations are a thread weaved into the fabric of the program that helps you have a calm, more comfortable and positive birth experience. 

Click here to see our upcoming HypnoBirthing group classes.

The Secret To HypnoBirthing

HypnoBirthing classes are not magical. There isn’t a secret potion or formula to birthing your baby easily and more comfortably. The secret to this childbirth education series - is YOU. You possess the power already. The art of birthing is within you. I’ll just help you find it.

“Whatever you reinforce, you get more out of.”

— First Law of Behavioral Psychology

If you train consistently for a marathon, you’re going to be successful crossing the finish line. If you study for a test, you’re more likely to pass it. If you commit yourself to the HypnoBirthing philosophy, you are going to have a more confident and satisfying birth experience no matter how it unfolds.

So why 5 two and half hour classes? We have a lot of content to cover, comfort techniques to learn, and discussion time! You wouldn’t run a 5K and then try your luck at a marathon the next week - you’d train! So why treat labor and birth any differently?

“Wherever and however you intend to give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life.”

— Ina May Gaskin, MA, CPM, PhD(Hon.)

You will remember even the smallest details from your birthing experience. You have every right to try to make those memories positive! That’s what HypnoBirthing is about. It’s about arming you with knowledge, confidence, tools, and support. Just like running a marathon - you will begin your labor knowing you and your birth companion “trained” and are prepared for the road ahead. There may be some hills and unexpected turns, but your training keeps you going.

Here is my syllabus for each HypnoBirthing class. Have more questions? Let’s chat!

Unit 1 – Setting the stage

Introduction to the HypnoBirthing® philosophy

The History of Women and Birthing

Why and how you can have an easier, more comfortable, and safer birthing

How Nature perfectly designed women’s bodies to birth

How to assist, rather than resist, your natural birthing instincts

The vocabulary for calm and gentle birthing.

Visualizing gentle births by viewing beautiful birthing videos

Unit 2 -Pre-birth family bonding and preparing your mind and body

The remarkable mind of your newborn baby—Prenatal bonding techniques

Rapid and instant self-relaxation techniques and deepening techniques

Breathing techniques for labor and birthing

Hypnotic relaxation and visualization

Selecting the right care provider

The Birth companion’s role in birthing

Preparing your body for birthing with massage and toning

Unit 3 – Self-hypnosis visualization and advanced deepening

Preparing Birth Preference Sheets

Preparing the Body for Birthing

Light Touch Labor Massage

Your body working for and with you

Avoiding artificial induction and achieving a natural start to labor

Releasing negative emotions, fears and limiting thoughts.

Unit 4 – Overview and summary of childbirth

Onset of Labor – Thinning and Opening Phase

Birth explained simply

Settling in at the hospital or birthing center

Preparing for home birth – or baby’s choice of birth

As labor moves along – passing time through labor

Hallmarks of labor

If labor rests or slows – Companion’s  prompts and activities

As labor advances – birthing with your baby

Protecting the natural birthing experience

Birth rehearsal imagery

Unit 5 – Birthing – The final act and bonding

Moving into birthing

Positions for descent and birthing

Breathing baby down to birth

Baby moves to the breast

Postpartum experience & products

Family bonding with your baby