Guest Contributors
Kerry Ingram
Kerry believes that a strong network of support for new parents can fortify the entire community. For seven years she has been sharing all the tools to make it easy for folks to create parent-baby classes in their own neighborhoods. Through a Community Supported Postpartum Kerry helps postpartum professionals, community caregivers and folks who care about new parents create multi-generational supportive gatherings for parents and babies in the postpartum year without reinventing the wheel.
Kerry is a mother (biological mother, mother of loss, foster mother) with over 20 years experience as an Early Childhood Educator. She is also a graduate of SUNY Oswego with a degree in Liberal Arts and a minor in Women's Studies. Kerry is a member of LifeWays North America (ECE caregiver certification and former board member). Kerry has training as a doula and training as a StillBirthday Doula, specializing in bereavement and loss support. She also carries a Postpartum Support International maternal mental health certification.
The moment a new baby enters your life, no matter the circumstances, everything changes and there is a lot that goes into adjusting. This can look different for each of us, but the one thing that is always the same is the need for support.