Build Your Mama Village in Maryland

Mom Meets Ups in & around Anne Arundel County. Top four places for mamas to meet other mamas.

You can’t have a village if you’re not a villager. What I encourage all moms to do is find their village. This isn’t the 1950’s Betty Draper style anymore and we don’t live in an actual village like our distant ancestors. Online communities can help break up the monotony, but those usually aren’t deeply connected open-your-heart kind of interactions. 

I tell new parents that for that first year or so, it’s like your baby is hazing you. And when you can make a new mom friend with a baby of the same age(ish), you bond together like boot camp buddies or sorority sisters whose relationship is founded on getting through that hardship together. I was lucky in my first year of motherhood and found a handful of like minded people through a mommy and me yoga group.