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Child Birth Education

Child Birth Education – if you ask my husband, the two full days of childbirth education I asked (forced?) him to attend with me at the hospital were among the longest two days of his life. Nine years later, I don’t remember many of the details except that there were lots and lots…

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What does it mean to be a good mother?

Children, Counseling, Family

I have never been much of a “beach read” type of woman but I would like to share a wonderful book that I did read this summer. The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan is a heart-breaking tale of “a bad mother trying to be good.” It is a work of fiction,…

Grief over a lost pregnancy

Grief & Loss, Pregnancy

Grief over a lost pregnancy. There are many subtitles that are under a lost pregnancy. The first is a miscarriage. A miscarriage is the spontaneous loss of a fetus before the 20th week of pregnancy. Approximately half of all fertilized are lost spontaneously, usually before the woman knows she is pregnant. Among women…

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Teen Parenting Program

Children, Counseling, Family

Hopeful Beginning’s Teen Parenting Program and how you can discern if this program is for you and your school, community, or church. First of all, it is important for you to speak with the teachers, social workers, and nurses at your school to look at the numbers of students who are pregnant and…

Baby in the NICU

Children, Counseling, Family

Hopeful Beginnings can help you if your baby is in the NICU at the hospital after birth. For those of you who don’t know, the NICU is the neonatal intensive care for babies who are ill that have just been born. Hopeful Beginnings is very helpful for mothers that have their babies…

The Importance of Touch With Babies

Children, Family

When your baby is born, the nurses give the baby over to the mom and dad to hold, and then placed over the mom’s chest to provide skin to skin contact. Baby also will start to nurse on the breast. What moms need to know is that the milk has not come in…

Starting Counseling

Counseling, General

First and foremost, I am proud of you. Starting counseling no matter what takes bravery. It can be very difficult for people to seek help for a variety of reasons. This can be related to a lack of a support system, cultural or societal norms still stigmatizing mental illness and counseling, lack of…

Self Care isn’t selfish

Children, Counseling, Family, General, Pregnancy, self care

If you do not take care of yourself, then no one understands that you need to be cared for. No one can read our minds as to what we need. What does self-care really mean? It is like putting on your oxygen mask before you put your child’s oxygen mask on an airplane….

Why Social Work?

Adoption, Children, Counseling, Family, Pregnancy, Social Worker

Hi, my name is Gianna and I have been the teen parenting program intern since August of 2021. I am a Master’s student studying school social work student at Dominican University after graduating with a B.A. in Psychology from Concordia University Chicago in May of 2021. My college experience was anything but average,…

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Hopeful Beginnings of St. Mary’s Services was established in 1887, with the vision of providing every child a good home. We continue this mission with adoption services and maternity counseling services.

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