Bringing Baby Home
A Couples’ Workshop for New Parents
SATURDAY APRIL 13TH | Middletown, RI
“Bringing Baby Home” is an evidence-based workshop for expectant and new parents, designed to help strengthen the couple’s relationship and foster their baby’s development.
Research has shown that one of the best predictors of healthy babies, children, and families is the emotional connection and quality of friendship in the marriage. When babies grow up in a home with a positive, playful parenting team, they feel safe and nurtured and able to learn. They cry less, they smile more, and their parents' cooperation helps them to pay better attention during play time to get more out of it.
Let’s face it. The transition to parenthood can be both beautiful and challenging. If you’re feeling this way, you are not alone.
In this workshop, we will navigate the changes during this life-changing transition, explore research-based ideas about healthy couples and babies, and build skills that will strengthen your relationship with your partner and your baby, creating more fulfillment, love, and joy in your family.
Whether you are expecting or caring for a newborn or young toddler, you will return home feeling inspired and more deeply connected as a couple, with concrete skills to keep your relationship strong and satisfying for years to come.
The Workshop Includes:
Teachings from Hannah Eaton (LMFT)
Role play conversations demonstrating key principles from Hannah & her husband Connor
Workshop materials
Guided mindfulness exercises
Community with other proactive couples
Coffee, tea, refreshments & lunch
Research has shown that the relationship with your partner is the cornerstone of your baby’s development. It’s not just about raising a happy, healthy child; it’s about cultivating a loving, harmonious environment for your growing family.
Couples This Workshop Is Intended For:
Appropriate couples: *Couples who are pregnant (2nd & 3rd trimesters) *Couples with a newborn *Couples with a baby/ toddler up to two years old *Couples who have recently adopted a baby *Couples who are having their 2nd or 3rd child (or more) *Couples of all backgrounds, ages, faiths, and sexual orientations are welcome
Inappropriate couples: *Couples in severe relationship distress *Couples on the brink of splitting up *Couples with significant emotional or physical abuse *Severe mental mental health problems *Relationships where one or both partners are addicted to drugs, alcohol, or other compulsive behavior.
The workshop will run from 9:00am - 4:00pm with an hour lunch break from 12:00 - 1:00pm. We will provide lunch, which you can enjoy on the beautiful premises of the Norman Bird Sanctuary, where the workshop will take place.
*Babes in arms (pre-crawling) are welcome to join.
Meet Your Facilitators
I (Hannah) am a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and a certified Gottman Bringing Baby Home Educator. I have been working with couples for over ten years, and have a private practice dedicated to proactive couples seeking to elevate their health and relationships. My husband, Connor, joins me in leading workshops and retreats, and assists with role plays and stories. We have worked together in the Gottman Research Lab for 5+ years, and have had the privilege to take dozens of couples through transformative Gottman workshops.
We are excited to celebrate 10 years of marriage this year, and are proud parents to a joyful and rambunctious little toddler. When we’re not leading workshops or retreats, we love to go on adventures, bike, hike, ski, surf, dance, garden, cook tasty meals, play music, read, and soak up the beauty of this one wild and precious life.