Approaching or new to Motherhood?


Well Baby

well mum well baby

well mum well baby is an education program run by Dr Melanie Strang who is a medical doctor and telephone counsellor with the Post and Antenatal Depression Association (PANDA). She has a passionate interest in the wellbeing of mums and dads.

Our objective is to:

Build confidence for parenthood
A confident and self-aware parent is a well parent.  Well mum and dad, well baby.

Mums-to-be, mums and dads can benefit from information about the psychological and relationship issues that arise both during pregnancy and after the arrival of a new baby. 

 

Do You:

  • Wonder what the transition to parenthood will be like?
  • Worry how life might change with a new baby?
  • Feel unsure about the reality of parenthood?
  • Have fears around how you and your partner might cope?
  • Wonder who might help you if you are feeling overwhelmed?
  • Feel your antenatal class has not prepared you for the emotional aspects of being a parent?
  • Wonder how to tell if your baby is unwell?

 

well mum well baby discusses the emotional wellbeing of mum, dad, and baby in those first few years.  We also talk about common baby ailments.         
0412 667 520
www.wellmumwellbaby.net.au
melanie@wellmumwellbaby.net.au

          $75 pp, $125 per couple for 3 hour Workshop


Workshops/ Private Consultations/ Interactive Email Consultations
Contact  Melanie to book your spot!!!!!!

 

About Dr Melanie Strang

Melanie is a medical doctor who completed her medical degree at the University of NSW in Sydney. She has always had an interest in mental health and after completing her internship, worked in acute psychiatry and community psychiatry. She then developed an interest in public health and spent some time working for the Health Department looking after the public health response to Meningococcal disease.
Since becoming a mum to Abigail (aged 7) and Zachary (aged 4) she has become passionate about helping mums and dads prepare for parenthood on an emotional and psychological level. Her telephone counselling experience at the Post and Antenatal Depression Association (PANDA) gives her great insight at a grass roots level, to the emotional issues that new parents are dealing with.
Melanie currently runs an education program (www.wellmumwellbaby.net.au) in Australia which helps prepare parents for what is to come- she helps normalise a many of their feelings around parenthood. She covers issues such as understanding the transition to parenthood, coping with losses related to parenthood, dealing with mother guilt, managing expectations versus the reality of parenthood, being assertive as a new mum or dad, creating awareness around how family relationships change when baby arrives and managing and optimizing psychological health including postnatal depression.

The program can be delivered via a workshop, as 12 interactive emails or in a private consultation.

Melanie‘s love of educating others is fulfilled not only through her workshop but she is also affiliated with a University based in Samoa and is involved in online teaching of Medicine to international students.