Moms Meetup: Boise
Fee & Registration
Free
Description
Share the joys and challenges of caring for yourself and your new baby. Topics that our facilitators cover include:
- The ins and outs of baby care including feeding, crying and fussiness, sleep patterns and common concerns.
- Emotional issues such as how all-consuming caring for a baby can be, when and where to get help, and how to take care of your needs and your baby's needs.
- Returning to work: childcare, being a full time mom and the feelings involved in these decisions.
- Relationships with partners, grandparents, co-workers and friends without children.
- Physical and emotional adjustments, sexuality, fitness and common concerns during the postpartum time.
- Your baby's developmental health and well-being including vision, hearing, dental care, reading, speech and language development, infant massage, tummy time and major physical milestones.
Additional Information
Registration Instructions
No registration is required.
We meet every Thursday from 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Special Instructions
You are encouraged to bring your infant up to 9 months old with you. No babies over 9 months old and older siblings are allowed.
We meet in St. Luke's South Tower Anderson Center (5th floor) which is directly east of (and attached to) the South Tower parking garage where free parking is available. The South Tower ground-level pedestrian entrance is just east of the cul-de-sac at the corner of W. Bannock Street and N. First Street.
Motorists should enter the South Tower parking garage at 101 W. Bannock Street and park on level 4 (top) in spaces designated for patients. Enter the South Tower building through entrance 4A, proceed through the double doors, and take stairs or elevator to the 5th floor Anderson Center.
Anderson Center Parking
Convenient parking for visitors is located in the South Tower Parking Garage. The garage can be entered from Bannock Street between First and Second Streets. Park on the roof of the garage and enter the adjoining South Tower through Entrance A. The Anderson Center is located on the 5th floor of the South Tower.
Handicapped parking is located along Bannock Street between Avenue B and 1st Street. Enter the building through the Bannock Street/Anderson Center entrance adjacent to the parking area. Take the elevators to the fifth floor.