Community Support Groups
Find Your People
We weren’t meant to raise our families alone, we’ve all heard the cliché ‘it takes a village’ but truly, humankind has survived through the support and safety of the communities around us. In our modern day world we are often professionally accomplished, have access to many convenience services and technological support. When it comes to such an enormous transformational experience as carrying, birthing and raising a family, it’s a raw, beautiful and visceral adjustment and it can feel overwhelming and scary at times too. We often live further away from our family and friendship foundations than ever before and often have had limited exposure to young children, the first time you hold a baby may even be your own. Finding likeminded others can be an essential part of creating your support system as you navigate and find your footing as expectant and new parents together, especially through special circumstances. It is my pleasure and privilege to help connect and support you.
Community Support
In addition to my classes and doula services, I am passionate about the value of collaborative communities and peer support
Where you can find regular shared information around my community support events and the collaborative communities with which I am affiliated on my social media:
You can also connect with me via:
Email: support@lalalangtrywhite.com
WhatsApp Dubai: +971 52 817 9235
WhatsApp UK: +44 7795 565 799
Small and Mighty Babies
Founded in 2013 by Joanne Hanson-Halliwell following the premature birth of her son at 30 weeks, Small and Mighty Babies was designed to bring a few of the families she met in NICU together. I came on board in 2015 following the premature birth of my twins to run family support within the UAE. Together, and as a community of families from all culture’s, religion’s and language’s, we have been supporting families through high risk pregnancies, premature birth and the neonatal journey ever since. If this is your journey, we are the perfect place to find the support you need.
In 2016 we introduced Love Through Loss Memory Boxes within leading hospitals within the region. Together with some of our families, we brought the first CuddleCots to Dubai and it is our hope that every hospital will have memory boxes, CuddleCots and bereavement suites available for families in the future.
Love Through Loss is a collaborative bereavement support community for those who experience the heartache of losing a baby in trying to conceive, during pregnancy, through stillbirth, neonatal loss, SIDS or infancy.
Where you can find them:
Small & Mighty Facebook Group
Love Through Loss Memory Boxes
Twins Plus Arabia
TwinsPlus Arabia is the Middle East’s community support group for families of twins, triplets and more.
Founded by Suman Manning, a mum of triplets, Su has been on a mission since 2011 to create a warm, enveloping community that offers invaluable support to all parents on, or just starting, the unique and rewarding journey of bearing and raising multiples.
The TwinsPlus coffee mornings were a much needed lifeline for me during my own twin pregnancy and it has been my privilege since then to work alongside Suman and Cassie supporting families of multiples.
For Suman, a site dedicated to Twins, Triplets and more felt like a natural extension of this mission providing specialised products (triplet strollers, anyone?) to quirky and fun products and of course bulk deals, TwinsPlus Arabia’s eCommerce site is as they say ‘by the community, for the community’ and all my clients are given an exclusive discount code to use when shopping here.
If you’re a parent of multiples or expecting a multiple bundle of joy, this is the community you’ve been looking for!
Where you can find more information:
Love Through Loss
Founded together with a community of individuals, organisations and advocates standing together in conversation & support around losing a baby at any stage from conception to infancy. Our aim is to raise awareness & education for those supporting families through the death of a baby & provide better access to bereavement care and comfort through our parent to parent support group.
It has been my privilege to work as a voluntary bereavement doula, walking beside and in support of families navigating the heartbreak of baby loss, at any gestation or age, for the past 9 years. My role is to help families access compassionate, supportive and respectful care, understand their options from a holistic and logistical perspective and support them in memory making in a way that feels right for them. I am able to offer ongoing support, guiding them to resources such as our peer support community at Love Through Loss, our professionally facilitated support groups or individual therapists and counsellors as well as our remembrance events and wider global resources.
Where you can find them: