Find your new mama tribe.
When you're having a BABY, everyone tells you to JOIN a mom's group, they just don't tell you HOW...
We're here to help!
No moms is perfect. We all have our own unique journey but,
WE ALL LOVE OUR BABIES!
We have a lifetime of mom judgement coming our way - we don't need it in our friend groups.
Let's just figure it out together.
Baby steps and deep breaths.
Join us.
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Mamistad is...
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The mutual respect and admiration that exists between all loving mothers.
It is instinctual and powerful.
It ranges from our empathy for a pregnant Mami who worries that
every pain she feels signals a health issue for her baby,
to our compassion for a new Mami facing the dread of her baby's first vaccination.
It's our sympathy for the Mami with a baby in the NICU or the not so-new-Mami leaving her baby
at day care for the first time.
It spans our lifetimes and allows us to empathize with another Mami as she sends her child
off to college or the military, or she prepares for their wedding day.
It is the heartache we feel when we hear that another Mami has lived a parent's worst nightmare, the loss of their child.
Beyond all of this, Mamistad is the joy we feel when we watch a baby walk for the first time
or the pride we feel for the Mami whose once little girl, now a woman, has just given birth to her very own baby.
Mamistad is a force that can empower mothers to change the world
through love, empathy and compassion.
History
I'm Cynthia and I created Mamistad in Falls Church VA in 2005 in honor of my own mom, Guadalupe. Her love of moms and babies is her legacy, and it lives on in this group. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's 2004 and our long journey together was the impetus for Mamistad.
My own first pregnancy coincided with my moms illness and led me to seek and find more like me to share the journey. Mamistad was created just months before my beautiful daughter was born. She was welcomed into a loving sisterhood of awesome women. Soon their babies became her first friends!
I want as many people as possible to feel what I felt then, and to enjoy the friendships and life-long bonds I cherish now.
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Future
Mamistad will continue to grow as new members continue to join across the country. Our community will grow and evolve with this unpredictable world while we do our best to raise beautiful. loved and responsible human beings, together.
Local groups will continue to be created where possible, to connect First-time Expecting and New Mamis with others who have similar due/delivery dates.
Virtual groups will continue to be available for all Mamistad members due in the same month, regardless of location, and Specialty Groups will connect Mamistad Members based on shared interests.
