30/03/2024
The Mother’s Group
Keshia Hutchens and Ariel Bryant met towards the end of Melbourne’s lockdowns and bonded over the fact they were both having their third child. “We really felt that as third time mums, it didn’t necessarily get any easier even though we’d been through postpartum before,” Hutchens says.
Earlier this month, the pair launched From Day One, a first-of-its-kind space for mothers from pregnancy to postpartum in inner Melbourne. The membership-based club (one-off sessions go for $35, while memberships start at $20 per week) offers weekly mother’s groups and masterclasses, as well as access to on-site facilities like a breastfeeding room, change table and kitchen.
Divided by baby ages and first time and second time mothers, each group has a facilitator, sleep specialist and lactation consultant present, as well as a guest speaker who might present on everything from mental health to fashion.
Ashton Wynn, a buyer at online parenting and baby site The Memo and first time mum, says From Day One has been a vital support network given her and her partner’s families live interstate. “It has given me the confidence boost I was lacking from not having my ‘village’ close by.”
Thank you to Lauren Ironmonger from for including us in this piece and taking the postpartum support movement mainstream, to Wayne Taylor for the pic and to our From Day One mums and babies (left to right) & Olympia, & Hazel, & William and .wynnn & Wylder
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