20/11/2023
Are you interested in volunteering for our new mum support program?
We are looking for women to join us for our launch in 2024.
Empowering Mums offers a free home visiting service in the Peel & Rockingham areas that supports the health and wellbeing of mums in the last trimester of pregnancy, the first year of the baby’s life and beyond if needed.
The aim of the project is to help parents adjust to a new baby and provide a support system that helps them cope and understand what they are going through and guidance to mothers who feel they lack adequate support to make the transition smoothly.
Our volunteers offer non-judgmental and confidential support to new mothers on a regular weekly basis. Visits are usually 2 hours per week and take place in the family home, they are unstructured and tuned to the mother’s needs. Mostly, mothers and volunteers spend their time together talking and caring for the baby.
Other ways our volunteers support mums include:
💚helping isolated mums to get out of the house
💜looking after the baby while mums have a shower
💚accompanying mums to the health clinic, doctor’s appointments, play group
💜looking after children while mums go for a walk, to yoga or the gym
💚bathing/ feeding the children
💜changing nappies and dressing the child
💚reading stories, playing games with the child
💜hanging washing out/ bringing it in / folding it
💚unpacking the dishwasher or washing dishes
💜helping with food prep
💚taking children for a walk.
The support mums receive will probably be different each day, depending on the mums needs, their child and time of day.
We are looking for empathetic women who are passionate about improving the wellbeing of new mums so that they can enjoy motherhood and establish nurturing bonds with their babies.
Volunteer link
https://form.jotform.com/232564468701055
I would like to thank Deb from Support for New mums for allowing me to bring her amazing program over to the West. I hope I can make as big a mark as she has.
