What is an age appropriate answer to a toddler who asks about how babies are made?
What is the appropriate age to talk about menstruation to a child?
How to explain about body shaming to a 4 year old?
How to warn a child about good touch and bad touch? How to educate them about consent?
Meet Swati Jagdish on 29th June at Siema Hall between 6PM to 8PM to know more on this.
Click register to book tickets at 750/- per head.
It's time for some group therapy!!
Vaanga Palagalam Vaanga Polambalam is back!
A safe, judgement free zone for the women to vent their hearts out. We all know how important it is to go out there and talk about things. You'll go back home a much happier, calmer person and a better parent.
Venue: Mango Education, GV Residency
Date, Time: 27 July 2019, 4PM to 6PM
Entry Free!! Limited Seats Only!!
Menstrual Cups - Online
Date: 28 Nov 2019
Time: 6PM to 8PM
Fee per head: 250/-
Facilitator: Swati Jagdish
**Enter the number of ticket to be purchased in tickets box.
All you need, to attend this is a stable internet connection, mobile phone or laptop and zoom app installed in your device. Link will be sent on 27th evening or 28th morning through WhatsApp for everyone to join the session.
Caesarean Section (C-Sec) mothers!
Your stitches would have healed physically and left you with a beautiful scar.
But have your emotional wounds been healed?
Has your birth story been heard and validated?
Let's go through the journey of letting go of guilt and self-blame.
Join Reba Daniel in this beautiful yet very different experience to getting out of guilt and blame.
Venue: @641Community, Saibaba Colony
Date: 14 Dec 2019
Time: 3PM to 5PM
Cost: 200/- per head.
Hola ladies of CPN!!!
It's time for some socializing and finding your feminine power. A tribe of women can do anything that's under the sky and beyond.
Come join us for a casual lunch cum discussion on various women oriented topics this women's day.
Date: 8 Mar 2020
Time: 12:00 PM
Venue: Bird on tree
Cost: 650/- per head.
Dr.Shifa Arshad, is a Preventive Paediatric Dentist ( We Little Dental) who believes in and follows "Prevention is better than cure". As a rarity in the dental field, she has more to offer on how oral health and dental issues will have an impact on various aspects of our health. Here she is to speak all about sleep and the sleep issues in children, one activity that is taken for granted.
Date: 1 Apr 2020
Time: 3PM to 4PM
Topic: SLEEP ISSUES IN CHILDREN
Location: Zoom Video Call Meeting
After successful registration, please wait for an email for further communications on 31 Mar 2020.
True to the term, multifaceted, Avanti Natarajan is an architect, artist, edupreneur, dancer, designer, and a research scholar. She calls herself an experimental mom, found an initiative called "Liltrails" to create a community for parents to exchange ideas. Here she is to share and to tap the creativity in you all to come up with fun activities for kids at home. Yes, this we know is what most parents are looking for now. Happy planning and playing!!!
Date: 2 Apr 2020
Time: 3 PM to 4 PM
Topic: FUN ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS AT HOME
Location: Online Zoom Video Meeting
After successful registration, please wait for an email for further communications on 1 Apr 2020.
Periods during this quarantine period can be more stressful to handle. The doubts in the availability of sanitary pads can even get you on a panic mode. CPN trustee and a menstrual cup user Kumutha Chandrika is here to guide you on all about cups and will help you sail through this smoothly and guess what cups are easy on your pockets too.
Date: 3 Apr 2020
Time: 3 PM to 4 PM
Topic: MENSTRUAL CUPS
Location: Online Zoom Video Meeting
After successful registration, please wait for an email for further communications on 2 Apr 2020.
Childbirth should be an experience to remember and not an event to fear. Dr.Manjari, one of CPN admins, who is certified in Childbirth Education, will give you a comprehensive idea on childbirth and what to expect out of a childbirth education class.
Date: 4 Apr 2020
Time: 3 PM to 4 PM
Topic: CHILDBIRTH WITHOUT FEAR
Location: Zoom Video Call Meeting
After successful registration, please wait for an email with further communication details on 3 Apr 2020.
Making a child eat is considered a great feat among parents. We are adamantly holding on to the thought that the child needs to be fed. Why not let the child explore. This is called baby-led weaning and no doubt it is going to be with some mess and fuss. Who better than a mamma who trusted both her kids, to handle this session. Dr. Aishwarya PhD, CPN trustee will get you all through this and make you all let your children dive into the world of food.
Date: 5 Apr 2020
Time: 3 PM to 4 PM
Topic: BABYLED WEANING (INTRODUCING SOLIDS)
Location: Zoom Video Call Meeting
After successful registration, please wait for an email with further communication details on 4 Apr 2020.
Fitness is more about feeling comfortable and confident about our body, rather than showing off our physical accomplishments. Pregnancy is not an illness, we can still shake our body and feel the ecstasy. Shara Sivith, an Active Mamma fitness trainer, a yoga fanatic and a natural birther has in her to make you all experience a dopamine high. Let's move and groove.
Date: 6 Apr 2020
Time: 3 PM to 4 PM
Topic: PREGNANCY & POSTPARTUM FITNESS
Location: Zoom Video Call Meeting
After successful registration, please wait for an email with further communication details on 5 Apr 2020.
Parenting in the digital age is not about screen times and managing screen time for kids. It is a discussion on how the digital age is affecting our parenting choices and how to give children an environment that is ideal for them to thrive. Gotha Haripriya, Parenting Coach and CPN trustee will help you all find informed solutions to your uncertain questions.
Date: 7 Apr 2020
Time: 3 PM to 4 PM
Topic: PARENTING IN THE DIGITAL WORLD
Location: Zoom Video Call Meeting
After successful registration, please wait for an email with further communication details on 6 Apr 2020.
Periods, commonly has in it to cause some kind of discomfort, be it physical, mental or emotional for many. Added is the stress when PCOD becomes the identity of your menstrual cycle. This session is coming from a person, who has experience in tackling PCOD with diet, added to her qualification. Sivaranjani Ganapathy, a certified health and nutrition coach will share how the smallest of changes can bring in the biggest of effects.
Date: 8 Apr 2020
Time: 3 PM to 4 PM
Topic: PCOD DIET _ WHAT WORKED FOR ME
Location: Zoom Video Call Meeting
After successful registration, please wait for an email with further communication details on 7 Apr 2020.
Schooling comes as a big onus on the parents.Mode of schooling, when to start schooling, the curriculum, the environment and we guess the list is endless. In fact, parents start pondering on this part of their parenting journey right from pregnancy. Minu Gnanamoorthy, CPN trustee, will open up on the various types of schooling methods and all the associated factors. At the end, schooling is all about what works for the child.
Date: 13 Apr 2020
Time: 3 PM to 4 PM
Topic: Conventional / Alternate Schooling & Homeschooling / Unschooling (How it works?)
Venue: Online
Terms and conditions:
CPN in no way will be responsible if you miss the session because
**The contact details in no way will be used for any purpose other than to share the session details. So please do give correct and real details.
Learning is an ongoing process.Every circumstance, activity and event is an opportunity to either unlearn and learn or relearn. Dr.Indhulekha Paul is a passionate Educational Psychologist , who with her expertise in dealing with the parent-children dyad, will help you all embark on a journey that will make you all realise that learning is fun and enjoyable.
Date: 14 Apr 2020
Time: 3 PM to 4 PM
Topic: Making learning fun & enjoyable
Venue: Online
Terms and conditions:
CPN in no way will be responsible if you miss the session because
**The contact details in no way will be used for any purpose other than to share the session details. So please do give correct and real details.
Rightly called, the Tech Monk, Bala, the founder of Aatrral Academy infuses science into life and life into science. He sees science as a language that is born through keen observation. As an ardent follower of many things sustainable, he is here to speak about how simple everyday things could lead us to inculcating science and spirituality in a child's development , that forms the crux of a person's identity.
Date: 15 Apr 2020
Time: 3 PM to 4 PM
Topic: Science & Spirituality in Child's Development
Venue: Online
Terms and conditions:
CPN in no way will be responsible if you miss the session because
**The contact details in no way will be used for any purpose other than to share the session details. So please do give correct and real details.
Self care is the most underrated activity in any parents' life. Somehow as parents, we tend to believe more in caring for people around us than even attempting to put an effort on self care. Ishani Lauren Naidu, as an Ayurveda Health Educator will help you all comprehend the idea of self care. After all, we need to acknowledge the fact that "I" can come before "U" in life too.
Date: 16 Apr 2020
Time: 3 PM to 4 PM
Topic: Ayurvedic Self Care for Parents
Venue: Online
Terms and conditions:
CPN in no way will be responsible if you miss the session because
**The contact details in no way will be used for any purpose other than to share the session details. So please do give correct and real details.
"Labor" during childbirth requires a lot of "labour". We often tend to associate the term "labor" with "pain". Knowing how to cope with this pain and learning the techniques will help us sail through this with less fear and more comfort. Sangeetha Parthasarathy has a lot packed in her as a doula, childbirth educator and birth trauma resolution practitioner to help you be sane all through the pain.
Date: 17 Apr 2020
Time: 3 PM to 4 PM
Topic: KGHypnobirthing - What labour pain really means
Venue: Online Video Meeting
Terms and conditions:
CPN in no way will be responsible if you miss the session because
You gave the wrong email id (watsapp grp link will be sent to the mail id)
You missed seeing the mail and also registered with a number that doesn't have watsapp
Registered for two or more people in the same number and details are not shared with the other person
**The contact details in no way will be used for any purpose other than to share the session details. So please do give correct and real details.
Please expect an email from cbeparentingnetwork@gmail.com one day prior to the event with the link to the WhatsApp group that will be formed for this particular session.
We often don't say mothering and fathering, we term it parenting. Parenting is about caring for your children as a whole and not sharing the upbringing of your children. Rajesh Ramakrishnan who is a father of 3 and a psychotherapist is here to speak about his parenting journey and not his fathering journey.
Date: 18 Apr 2020
Time: 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Topic: PARENTING 3 CHILDREN - A Father shares
Venue: Online Video Meeting
Terms and conditions:
CPN in no way will be responsible if you miss the session because
CPN will not add any participant to the group manually.
Please expect an email from cbeparentingnetwork@gmail.com one day prior to the event with the link to the WhatsApp group that will be formed for this particular session.
As parents, we do anticipate the day we are going to be bombarded with certain questions from our children. These "certain questions" creates a sense of awkwardness and discomfort only in us. For the child it is all about learning and exploring its body and surroundings. Why not we be the source they trust for life. Swathi Jagdish, CPN trustee and sexuality health educator, with her expertise has helped many many parents crack this with ease.
Date: 19 Apr 2020
Time: 3 PM to 4 PM
Topic: SEX Education for Children - Basics
Venue: Online Video Meeting
Terms and conditions:
CPN in no way will be responsible if you miss the session because
**The contact details in no way will be used for any purpose other than to share the session details. So please do give correct and real details.
Please expect an email from cbeparentingnetwork@gmail.com one day prior to the event with the link to the WhatsApp group that will be formed for this particular session.
The women need to be the centre of their birth. Her emotions, pain, expectations and fear are basic things that needs to addressed. For some when the above requirements are dismissed, they do end up with a physical scar apart from the mental scar which stays with them for life. Reba Daniel, a childbirth educator and doula also has a profound experience in healing. Let's speak, share and heal the scar that marred our peace so far.
Date: 20 Apr 2020
Time: 3 PM to 4 PM
Topic: C - THE SCAR Sharing CSection Stories
Venue: Online Video Meeting
Terms and conditions:
CPN in no way will be responsible if you miss the session because
CPN will not add any participant to the group manually.
Please expect an email from cbeparentingnetwork@gmail.com one day prior to the event with the link to the WhatsApp group that will be formed for this particular session.
Barani Dinesh started baking organic biscuits and cookies for her child. Word spread soon and slowly, her baking products became the talk of the town. It's not so easy being a ‘mompreuner’ she has been quite successful in ‘organic’ baking business. Though she learned baking as part of her curriculum, she never thought it as a career or business. She will be helping her participants to start with baking simple cake recipes at home.
Please keep the following in mind:
Terms and conditions:
CPN in no way will be responsible if you miss the session because
CPN will not add any participant to the group manually.
Please expect an email from cbeparentingnetwork@gmail.com one day prior to the event with the link to the WhatsApp group that will be formed for this particular session.
Dhivya Chandrasekaran aka Dhivya Chandru is a Paediatric Pysiotherapist for Child Development and Disabilities at Therapeutish Institutt, Netherlands who has extensive knowledge and experience in child developmental milestones and disabilities. She will be addressing about Early Intervention, Milestones and Neuroplasticity in zero to 3 years of age.
Please keep the following in mind:
Terms and conditions:
CPN in no way will be responsible if you miss the session because
CPN will not add any participant to the group manually.
Please expect an email from cbeparentingnetwork@gmail.com one day prior to the event with the link to the WhatsApp group that will be formed for this particular session.
Reba Daniel is an editor/journalist, detox and wellness advisor, Life/Spiritual Science researcher and a singer who is greatly aware about what it means for someone to heal inside out. This time, she is back with us to address our Inner Child and why is important to address that Inner Child of ours.
Please keep the following in mind:
Terms and conditions:
CPN in no way will be responsible if you miss the session because
CPN will not add any participant to the group manually.
Please expect an email from cbeparentingnetwork@gmail.com one day prior to the event with the link to the WhatsApp group that will be formed for this particular session.
Anuradha Mahadevan, is a Clinical Psychologist at Nirman Psychiatric Nursing Rehabilitation & De-addiction Centre who has a wide range of experience in working with children and adults alike. She will be addressing on why counselling and therapies are important, for what can one take counselling or therapies for, what exactly happens in such sessions and how will it be really useful sometimes even a life savior for those who sit for counselling and therapy.
Please keep the following in mind:
Terms and conditions:
CPN in no way will be responsible if you miss the session because
CPN will not add any participant to the group manually.
Please expect an email from cbeparentingnetwork@gmail.com one day prior to the event with the link to the WhatsApp group that will be formed for this particular session.
Supriya Manokaran
Co- founder: Studio Nadiya
Founder: Makeovers by Supriya
Fashion style curator, Wardrobe Consultant.
Has 10 years experience in fashion industry and certified makeup artist. Fashion educator and speaker.
She will be joining us and talking about:
Date: 27 Apr 2020
Time: 3 PM to 4 PM
Topic: Grooming and Self Care for Women
Venue: ONLINE VIDEO CONFERENCE (Zoom or Google Meet)
Please keep the following in mind:
Terms and conditions:
CPN in no way will be responsible if you miss the session because
CPN will not add any participant to the group manually.
Please expect an email from cbeparentingnetwork@gmail.com one day prior to the event with the link to the WhatsApp group that will be formed for this particular session.
Gotha Hari Priya, CPN Trustee and Family Health Coach, will be talking about what the 5 love languages is all about based on the best selling author Gary Chapman's book. She wull covering the following topics:
Based on the book and talks by Gary Chapman.
Date: 28 Apr 2020
Time: 3 PM to 4 PM
Topic: 5 Love Languages
Venue: ONLINE VIDEO CONFERENCE (Zoom or Google Meet)
Please keep the following in mind:
Session is live, no recordings and no refunds if you miss the session
Use your watsapp number to register and correct email id.
Participants living Abroad, the phone number might not get accepted while registering due to code. So kindly register with an Indian number.
Please do check the mail with which you registered, for the link to get added to the watsapp group where further info regarding the session will be shared.(Only msg or call the number in the poster if you did not receive a link to the group until half an hour before the session).
After adding yourself to the watsapp group, please confirm your presence with name and order id or registered email ID.
Registrations will be closed once our seats get filled or one day prior to the session or on the day of the session depending on the number of participants. Please do not wait till the last minute to register.If u don't find the link in the website, it means the registrations have closed for that particular session.
Terms and conditions:
CPN in no way will be responsible if you miss the session because
you have provided a wrong email ID with spelling mistakes since communication updates will be to your email.
you missed seeing the mail and also registered with a number that doesn't have watsapp
registered for two or more people in the same number and details are not shared with the other person
you failed to add yourself to the watsapp group where further info regarding the session will be shared.
CPN will not add any participant to the group manually.
Please expect an email from cbeparentingnetwork@gmail.com one day prior to the event or on the day of the event with the link to the WhatsApp group that will be formed for this particular session. Also, check your spam if it is not in your inbox.
Shiny MBA, BL has been practising as a lawyer in the district court Coimbatore for 10.5 years on civil, corporate and family laws. She will be joining us on 29th Apr and talking about women and their legal rights pertaining to marriage, personal and work life.
Date: 29 Apr 2020
Time: 3 PM to 4 PM
Topic: Women and their Legal Rights.
Venue: ONLINE VIDEO CONFERENCE (Zoom or Google Meet)
Please keep the following in mind:
Terms and conditions:
CPN in no way will be responsible if you miss the session because
CPN will not add any participant to the group manually.
Please expect an email from cbeparentingnetwork@gmail.com one day prior to the event or the on the day of the event with the link to the WhatsApp group that will be formed for this particular session.
Karthikeyan Moorthy is a masters degree holder in horticulture, Turf and Landscape Consultant, Managing Trustee - Gowtham Memorial Trust and an Agriculture Officer with Bank of Baroda. Being very passionate about agriculture, he will be joining us to talk about the following:
Date: 30 Apr 2020
Time: 3 PM to 4 PM
Topic: Organic Food - What's the Truth?
Venue: ONLINE VIDEO CONFERENCE (Zoom or Google Meet)
Please keep the following in mind:
Terms and conditions:
CPN in no way will be responsible if you miss the session because
CPN will not add any participant to the group manually.
Please expect an email from cbeparentingnetwork@gmail.com one day prior to the event with the link to the WhatsApp group that will be formed for this particular session.
Experiential session by Effath Yasmin for pregnant mothers to relieve trauma.
Time: 7 AM to 8 AM
Effath Yasmin is India's leading IBCLC & a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist from Mumbai, India and Founder/Director of Nourish & Nurture. Her special interests lie in Infant Oral and Sucking Dysfunction, Tongue-Tie - Assessment, Treatment & Rehabilitation, biomechanics of breastfeeding & treatment of birth trauma, anxiety & depression. Yasmin serves on the national board of Birth India and co founder & advisory board of ICAP (International Consortium of Oral Ankylofrenula Professionals) and GOLD Conferences.
She is also a producer/director of an award-winning International Documentary Film “Untying Breastfeeding” screened across many countries.
Coming into being - The sentient baby by Divya Deswal
Time: 10 AM to 11 AM
Divya Deswal has worked with expectant families since 2001 as a Childbirth educator, HypnoBirthing practitioner and Doula. She is a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist and Somatic Experience Practitioner and is currently teaches and mentors doulas in India. She is also a mentor with APPPAH in the US for their pre and perinatal educator program. She believes the baby to be a sentient being, and the journey of motherhood a spiritual one.
Divya also practices Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and Somatic Experience as trauma and nervous system regulation therapy and brings both modalities in her work with mother and babies enabling her to support women and babies in their journey through pregnancy and birth and beyond.
Divya is co-founder of an online platform My Child First, www.mychildfirst.com, that offers information on many aspects of reproduction and parenting. The platform aims to bring diverse information and offer an opportunity to the user to integrate that information from the perspective of the baby and make decisions as parents - ‘Choices in childbirth through the baby’s eyes’.
What happens when a Midwife and Gynec join hands - A glimpse of a respecfful model by Dr. Vijaya Krishnan & Dr. L. Jayanthi Reddy
Time: 11 AM to 12 PM
Dr. Vijaya Krishnan, Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) (USA) is a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM), and the co-founder of The Sanctum, Natural Birth Center, and the leading official Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator (LCCE) in India. She is a graduate of the Midwifery Program from National College of Midwifery, USA and is the pioneer in starting Independent, Out of Hospital Midwifery Program in India. Dr. Vijaya also has a Clinical Doctorate in Physical Therapy and Physical Therapy Education, with specialization in Womens Health, and conducts wellness programs for mothers-to-be and new moms, building upon her specialization in body mechanics, fitness, and Women’s Health.
Own your Birth- Debunking myths around labour by Arpitha Shankar
Time: 2 PM to 3 PM
Arpitha Shankar is a doula and LAMAZE certified childbirth educator . She is a passionate advocate for respectful care and informed consent and believes labour could be a life-altering empowering experience.
What I wish pregnant parents knew - Panel 1
Time: 3 PM to 4:30 PM
Aruna Savur is a pediatrician (for the last 20 years),a trained Neonatologist, Lactation consultant-BPNI-IYCF, IBCLC, a certified infant massage therapist (IAIM), and a mom of two.
Ruth Malik founded Birth India, in 2006. After two avoidable and unnecessary caesarean surgeries, Ruth’s traumatic birth experiences motivated her to start Birth India. A Postgraduate in International Health, a trained doula and hypnobirthing practitioner, with 14 plus years of experience supporting women to make informed choices in pregnancy and childbirth. An Australian national, Ruth has lived in India since 1996 both in New Delhi, and Mumbai.
The power of a Pregnant Woman by Reba Daniel
Time: 7 PM to 8 PM
Reba Danial - Journalist & Independent Natural Health researcher for 18 years; birthworker for 10 years, currently working with Birthvillage, Kerala. The core of her work lies in exploring the connections between science and the mind-body-spirit construct. She specializes in not just the physical aspects of healing through food and nutrition, but also in the somatic areas where the more powerful aspects of inner healing and life unfold. Her life journey of a powerful natural birth, holistic living, healing of parent wounds, marriage conflicts, inner child trauma, and unique reprogramming of her belief systems through constant unlearning - is what forms the essence of her offerings. Her message is that every human is here for a unique life experience, we always have the capacity to change, and that we all deserve to live 'Life in all its Fullness'.
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Prenatal Fitness - An Active Mamma experience by Donna Mitchell
Time: 10 AM to 11 AM
Donna is a senior midwife (Birth for Change), who has the vision of offering humane and woman centered maternity options for women in India. A mom of 9 all homebirthed-with-midwives-children, and 5 grandchildren she has a lot of experience in midwifery care.
Exploring Epigenetics and Pregnancy by Effath Yasmin
Time: 11 AM to 12 PM
Effath Yasmin is India's leading IBCLC & a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist from Mumbai, India and Founder/Director of Nourish & Nurture. Her special interests lie in Infant Oral and Sucking Dysfunction, Tongue-Tie - Assessment, Treatment & Rehabilitation, biomechanics of breastfeeding & treatment of birth trauma, anxiety & depression.
Birth is Natural, Then why Classes? - Panel 2
Time: 3 PM to 4:30 PM
Chetana Kulkarni ever since the pregnancy and birth of my older child 10 years back, I have had a deep interest in childbirth and everything related to it. This passion led to me quit my engineering job and journey onwards to become an LLLI Leader and then a lactation educator counselor. I also trained to become a childbirth educator. In 2019, I co-founded The Birth Home, a midwifery based birth center where I have been offering childbirth education classes and also assisting clients in childbirth as a midwife assistant. I believe that every person and baby has the right to a gentle birth and one in which families are supported to make informed decisions. My rock-solid support system is my family- my partner and my two kids, who are my inspiration to carry on doing what I do!
Sangheetha Parthasarathy, is an ex-strategy consultant turned birth doula. She trained under Dr. Michel Odent, she is also a childbirth educator, KGhypnobirthing teacher and specialises in birth trauma - she recently relocated from the UK to Chennai, India where she brings in her expertise in pre-and perinatal psychology, somatic experiencing and other trauma resolution tools to work with couples during the perinatal period in a culturally sensitive manner. Sangeetha is also an international speaker and has published many journals, blogs and articles on various topics related to birth, inner wisdom, psychology and activism, and recently won the International Forum for Advancements in Healthcare's "Top 100 Healthcare Leaders" award in 2019 for her contributions to maternity in India.
Midwifery in India: By women, for women, of women by Priyanka Idicula
Time: 7 PM to 8 PM
Priyanka Idicula is a certified professional midwife (U.S.A.) and Lamaze certified childbirth educator, trained extensively in prenatal and postnatal care and child birth education from the United States. She is currently the director of Birth Village, The Natural Birthing Centre in Cochin, Kerala and is the managing trustee for Birth for Change (NGO).
VAANGA PALAGALAM VAANGA POLAMBALAM
Date: 20/09/2020
Time: 5 PM
Venue: Online Zoom Meeting.
Please provide the correct email ID.
Zoom meeting ID will be sent to your registered email, 1 day before the event (I.e., on 19/09/2020).
Please check your spam for an email from us with the zoom link before getting in touch with the number provided in the poster.