Your online support - Healing and thriving through Pregnancy After Infertility
Joyful Expectations is a private Facebook group where we offer a safe space for women who find themselves pregnant after infertility.
This group provides an opportunity to share concerns, stresses and needs with other women pregnant after infertility in an intimate, supportive environment.
The group is facilitated by Natasha Hogan – author and health care professional (post-partum trained doula), with lived experience of infertility, challenging pregnancies, breach birth, c-sections and more.
Tash has a wealth of resources at her fingertips, to draw from to answer your questions and provide any specific support you may need.
Feeling safe to ask questions in a calm, non-judgemental environment.
Connection and closeness, not distance.
Expanded knowledge will help you to be fully open and uninhibited about your true concerns around your pregnancy, birth and post birth needs and desires. We want women to feel empowered and able to ask questions knowing they will receive a loving response back.
Expert answers from a Health Care Professional – even if the exact answer isn’t available at the time, the question will be investigated and given at further sessions.
Our community provides great comfort knowing that you’re not alone. You’ll also gain the security in knowing what might be normal or what might need further assistance.
Previously, many women who fall pregnant after infertility have felt very lost and alone in their unique situation. They may have felt they were flying blind or that there was no one who could really answer their questions.
When a woman finds a like-minded group of other women in the same situation, all coming together to support each other, they find safety.
When you feel safe, secure and supported – regardless of whether you’re introverted or extroverted – you are far more likely to discuss your anxieties or worries.
This group gives you an opportunity to share how you feel with people who understand, people who can help you to address, discuss and deal with your concerns. We can also help you to find positive, real-world solutions going forward.
You are welcome to participate as much or as little as you’re comfortable with. It’s not unusual for women to observe and get to know the group before they feel comfortable to discuss their own fears or health.
No one is ever forced to contribute, you’re always welcome to simply listen (read). However, to get the most out of the community, sharing your experience is very much encouraged.
The Joyful Expectations community is a 100% safe zone. No question is too silly, nor will any person be made to feel less than they are.