Nurtured Pregnancy Circles
A 10-week guided circle for nurturing your and your little one within
You want your baby to have the best start to life, but you’re not sure you have the map.
You may have grown up in a home where love was present, but nurture and connection weren’t as prominent. Feelings may have felt managed instead of met. Many of us were parented from a behavioral approach because that was the prevailing paradigm. This meant being parented for compliance rather than from connection. This could have looked like rewarding good behavior and punishing “bad” behavior. And often times the behaviors being managed were developmentally appropriate. Your childhood could have included time-outs, spanking, being ignored, or even shamed. Now you're pregnant, reading everything, and trying to prepare. But underneath the research and the registry, there's a quieter wondering:
How do I nurture a baby when I'm not sure I was fully nurtured myself?
This can feel a bit like mothering without a map. Knowing that you want to parent differently is the first step towards being the parent you want to be. You aren’t broken! You're just operating from a blueprint that wasn’t primed for connection. Fortunately that blueprint can change.
The Nurtured Pregnancy Circles is a 12-week guided group experience rooted in Nurture Neuroscience: the science of how safety, attunement, and co-regulation physically shape a developing brain - not just your bab'y’s but yours too! This isn't a prescribed parenting approach. It's a felt, embodied shift, built in community, before your baby ever arrives.
By the time your circle ends, you'll feel more connected to the baby growing inside you, and to the parts of yourself that are growing too.
Grounded in the science behind The Nurture Revolution by Dr. Greer Kirshenbaum, this circle rests on a simple truth: bonding starts before birth. Your baby's brain, and your own, are already developing in powerful ways during pregnancy. The nurture you offer now helps lay the foundation for emotional security, resilience, and lifelong wellness for you both.
How It Works
Twelve weekly, 90-minute sessions guided by a Nurture Neuroscience Practitioner, in a small circle of other expecting mothers walking the same road.
Each session includes:
A nourishing practice, just for you
A practice to connect with your baby
A new, research-backed topic
Space to share, ask questions, and be met with support
What you get:
A knowledgeable guide for your questions about your baby and about yourself
A new topic and a new nurture practice every week
Real peer support from other pregnant mothers in your circle
The 12-Week Circle
Week 1 — Infant Brain Development How your baby's brain is actually built, and why connection—not correction—is the foundation from day one.
Week 2 — Parent Brain Development Your brain is changing too. The neuroscience of matrescence and how becoming a parent reshapes you from the inside out.
Week 3 — Nurtured Presence Something more powerful than perfect technique: your regulated, attuned presence.
Week 4 — Nurtured Empathy Reading and responding to your baby's inner world—building the empathic attunement that becomes their emotional home base.
Week 5 — Baby Chats How "serve and return" communication with your baby, long before words, builds language, trust, and connection.
Week 6 — Emotions and Needs Seeing behavior as communication, so you can meet the need beneath the need—in your baby, and in yourself.
Week 7 — Nurturing Infant Stress Your baby's stress response system, and how your calm becomes their co-regulation—their first lesson in feeling safe.
Week 8 — Growing Space Creating physical and emotional space that supports exploration, autonomy, and secure attachment.
Week 9 — Nurtured Infant Sleep Sleep through a nurture lens—working with your baby's biology and attachment needs, not against them.
Week 10 — Ambivalence: Holding Two Feelings at Once Permission to love this transition and grieve parts of your old life at the same time. Both are true. Neither disqualifies you.
Week 11 — Intuition and Interoception Rebuilding trust in your body's signals—the quiet, wise information your nervous system has been sending all along.
Week 12 — Evoking Self-Compassion and Awe Closing the circle by turning the nurture you've been learning to give your baby back toward yourself.
Who This Circle Is For
You want to parent differently than you were parented, but aren't sure how to start
You feel anxious about "getting it right" and want less pressure, more grounded understanding
You're drawn to attachment-based, neuroscience-informed parenting rather than rigid systems
You want community—other expecting parents doing this same inner work alongside you
What You'll Walk Away With
A nervous system that knows, not just a mind that knows. A felt sense of what attunement, co-regulation, and nurture actually feel like—so when your baby arrives, you're not starting from a manual. You're starting from a map you helped build yourself.