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We are raising babies in a time when extended family is spread out around the country. Most of us don't grow up surrounded by our baby nieces, nephews and cousins. Some of us become parents without ever having held a newborn. Suddenly, we are the sole caregivers of these tiny new people--babies for whom we would sacrifice our entire lives.

But how do we know what to do? And how do we know if we are doing it right?

As we physically move away from our family, many of us are also moving away from the parenting techniques used by our parents and grandparents. We bring with us some of the ways we were raised, but we've also found that some of the methods they used when we were growing up are not methods we want to pass on to our children. But what might the alternatives look like? And how will we know if they are right?

A Parent Connection, with services in various Metro Denver locations, offers individual counseling and a selection of classes to help you, as a parent, answer some of those questions for yourself, understand your baby, learn new skills, create a community of support and navigate this new world of parenthood.

Support Services Include:

Infant Massage Instruction: for parents of babies ages birth to pre-crawling

Private sessions available for older babies and babies with special needs.
Parents learn to listen to, calm and provide relief for their baby as they deepen and strengthen their bond. This class teaches massage strokes designed specifically for babies as well as instruction on how to read baby cues, how to help with irregular sleep patterns, evening fussy-time, painful gas, colic and other common infant discomforts.

Click here for class schedule, cost and registration.

Parenting Classes-

Mothering On Solid Ground: For mothers of babies and young children.
Mothering on Solid Ground is a six-week class designed to help mothers of babies and children to:

Develop a secure attachment with their babies,

Build a foundation of self-care that helps prevent postpartum depression and general feelings of depletion,

Connect with other moms,

Build a foundation for confident parenting.

Parenting Toddlers On Solid Ground: Parents of children ages one to three.
During this six week class, parents learn the importance of listening to their toddlers, ways to say yes, yes, yes rather than no, no, no, how to manage negative toddler behaviors, what to do when your toddler is pushing your buttons and other individualized techniques to make parenting toddlers enjoyable for everyone!

Prenatal and Postpartum Support Counseling
Individual therapy for women experiencing prenatal or postpartum depression, anxiety, and/or obsessive/compulsive thoughts.

Individual Counseling
One-on-one counseling for women who are struggling with a wide range of transition issues including:
Postpartum mood disorders
Child-raising or parenting concerns
Marital conflict (can include couples counseling)
Abuse history
Grief/loss
Birth trauma
Identity conflict or adjusting to life as a parent

Parenting Consultation
One-on-one meetings with parents focused on finding solutions to parenting dilemmas that are defying all other methods of resolution. Consultation is available on an as-needed basis. It is highly comforting for many families to know that there is someone out there who can offer evidenced-based solutions who also knows you and your child as unique individuals.

Shared Parenting Support Program (SPSP)
This 10-week program is designed for co-parenting families who are no longer married or living together. Used successfully for both high- and low-conflict divorcing couples, this structured therapy program teaches skills to communicate effectively as "business partners" around the issues of co-parenting.