Continued support and information for your second year of parenting …
Join us as experts from around the Triangle offer informative, fun, and interactive workshops on a variety of topics relevant to your life with a not-so-new baby. These offerings are for parents, just like you, who are looking for the ongoing connection, community, and conversation, you expect and love about Emerald Doulas, beyond Baby's first few weeks.
In these classes, you’ll get more answers to your questions that aren't covered in most other parenting classes. You’ll find more ways to prepare for your family's future. More ways to connect with your growing baby and toddler, and support them throughout their early years.
Registration for each seminar is limited, and each class offering varies in price (but is listed below). Reserve your space by completing the registration below (Sign up for each session individually.). Each offering is held at the Emerald Doulas office at the time and date indicated for each class.
Upcoming Classes:
The Kids Table : An Introduction to Solids & Textures
Photography by Kallyn Silver Boerner
Join the Emerald Doulas for our next offering of "The Kids Table: An Intro to Solids and Textures" with Karen Williams, M.S. CCC-SLP, Speech-Language Pathologist
Breastfeeding, bottle-feeding, starting solids, and learning to eat different textures at the table can feel overwhelming for parents to take on. In this 2-hour class, we answer all of your questions about how to feed your little one, including how to start solids. Let us help you set up your child for positive eating habits based on what is right for your family’s goals!
This class also covers the following topics:
Oral Mechanism structure and function development
Introducing bottles
Pacifier Use
Choosing products based on your child’s needs
Feeding readiness for starting solids
Picky eating
Cup drinking and sippy cups
Self-feeding and Baby Lead Weaning
Registration is $50 per family.
Karen Williams, M.S. CCC-SLP, Speech-Language Pathologist
Karen earned her Masters of Science in Speech-Language Pathology from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies and a Minor in Choral Music.
When she founded Homegrown Speech, Karen was determined to provide joy-filled speech and feeding therapy with babies, toddlers, and kids, along with their families. With a family-centered approach, research-based strategies, and positive energy, she encourages and empowers her clients to meet their speech and language development goals and feel confident in their eating and feeding habits.
Karen enjoys singing and learning piano, baking legendary chocolate chip cookies, being a cat mom, and spending time with her husband and kids.
Estate Planning Basics for Parents
Join estate planning attorney and fellow parent Sophia Munson to learn about the documents you need to take care of your family! Guardianship, wills, trusts, power of attorney...Sophia will cover it all and help you to make sense of what your family needs.
Learn the basics including:
Guardianship do’s and don’ts
Asset protection
Healthcare & financial protections
Sophia is a dedicated attorney with a big-picture approach to law. She believes in collaborating closely with her clients to understand their needs and provide comprehensive representation. With a background in estate planning, business law, and employment law, Sophia offers a broad spectrum of expertise to serve her clients effectively.
As the daughter of a Foreign Service Officer, Sophia's upbringing exposed her to varied cultures and people worldwide. Her genuine interest in connecting with others and learning their unique stories naturally led her to a career in law. Sophia thrives on working directly with individuals, guiding them through their concerns and goals, and offering informed advice to prepare for the unexpected. She has experience working with clients from diverse backgrounds, addressing business matters, employment law challenges, family dynamics, and asset levels of all sizes.
With an impressive background that spans working with cultural heritage law firms, boutique law firms, large corporate law firms, hedge funds, and international consulting groups, Sophia's unwavering commitment has always been about serving people and their unique legal needs. At Munson Law Firm, she continues to uphold this tradition with a family-oriented approach to her legal practice.
Outside of her legal work, Sophia cherishes her role as a parent to her two young children in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She enjoys spending quality time with them, singing along to the most recent Disney soundtrack, creating art projects in the kitchen, and postponing the laundry as long as possible.
Documenting Your Family’s Story
Ordinary moments are so worthy of being documented and celebrated. It’s the in-between moments of your own family – the snuggles, the kisses of a scratched knee, bath time, spontaneous dance parties, you name it – are some of the most meaningful images you will ever capture. This is your life and it is incredibly rich with your own family’s uniqueness. It’s also fleeting.
Embrace the messiness of new parenthood and come learn some basics from Kallyn including:
How to capture timeless moments using your own current equipment (phone or camera)
How to preserve those moments.
Kallyn runs a family photography business and is a postpartum doula with Emerald Doulas. She lives and frolics in Durham. In her 20-year career as a photojournalist, she was often in the midst of unpredictable situations where her job was to make the most powerful images from a situation. She brings to you her ability to flow with the situation and roll with the unexpected, hence family life.