The Lemon Grove, LLC: Doula Agency & Perinatal Wellness, 256 Georgetown Road, Boxford, MA (2026)

01/24/2026

💛You’re Not Alone 💛
➡️Maternal Mental Health Day

🍋 Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs) affect 1 in 5 (≈20%) pregnant or postpartum women in the U.S. These conditions—including depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar, and psychosis—are the most common complication of childbirth, yet 75% of those affected remain untreated.

🌿 Roughly 1in 10 partners of birthers also experience PMADS.

🎙️ Join us for a Story Share where 5 members of our community will bravely share their personal experiences with PMADs. Please show up for them, for yourselves, and for our communities. All dates & themes for 2026 are posted. Please reach out if you're interested in speaking!

🍋 This event is free and open to all
🍋 Adults only, please
🍋 Light refreshments will be served

As with all of our events, come as you are.
🌈 The Lemon Grove is a welcoming and affirming place for all.

📅 March 6th
⏰ 6–8 PM
📍 The Lemon Grove
256 Georgetown Road
Boxford, MA 01921

💛 Community. Connection. Healing. 💛

01/13/2026

📢 Spinning Babies Parent Class SATURDAY! 📢

🤷🏽‍♀️ What is Spinning Babies?

The physiological approach of the Spinning Babies® Parent Class shows you what to do for an easier birth with practical birth preparation baby positioning to fit the pelvis and reduce pain in childbirth. Parents love learning why this works, and how to increase comfort for pregnancy and in birthing. After this class, expectant parents will better understand how their baby can find optimal positions for labor, and make birth less painful— even pleasurable!

🍋 Our group 2026 Spinning Babies®️ Parent Classes are LIVE on our website and we're always happy to teach 1:1!

🌿 Bring yourself, your partner (if you have one), wear comfy clothes, & come to learn!

🗓️ Select Saturdays
⏰ 10am-1pm
📍 The Lemon Grove
💃🏽Taught by .hathaway.doula

www.thelemongrove.care

01/12/2026

🍼 Milk Pick Ups 🍼

🍋 Prospective families ask us all the time, "What does everyone else do? What does postpartum support look like?" and we typically reply with, "...it depends/it varies!"

🌿 For this adoptive family, one of the postpartum doulas on our team, Maryssa, made the trek to pick up pumped milk so the family didn't have to.

From doula Maryssa, "That would’ve been a rough and stressful ride with a newborn that they definitely don’t need immediately after traveling home."

🍋 This win is a team effort. Thank you to:
🔸The generous donor family.
🔸The doula supporting the donor family who posted in a doula community FB group, provided the family's contact info, and responded so quickly when Marissa H. reached out.
🔸For the doula community FB group that exists as a resource.
🔸For doula Maryssa who volunteered without hesitation to pick up the milk and coordinated with the donor family.

🌿 Community starts here. Let us be part of yours as you grow your family. 🫶🏽

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01/08/2026

🥛 🍪 A Review as Sweet as Milk & Cookies 🍪🥛

🍋 We had the joy of supporting this sweet family, as they navigated an unexpected maternal hospital readmission after the birth of their third child, and we hustled to assemble not just a mini team but the RIGHT team for this family, (one of the opportunities .hathaway.doula loves most about the agency model) and thanks to a connection from (who we LOVE working with).

🌿 This mom enjoyed nightly milk & cookies during her pump sessions, so it was only fitting that on the last night of support, one of the doulas thoughtfully brought her favorite snack.

🍋 From the family: "...Each of the doulas had their own wonderful, loving, supportive, and grounding styles which helped stabilize and comfort us through this time, as well as giving us the emotional and literal support we needed to get through that time...It was what really allowed me to fully recover and be such a better mother to my new baby as well as my older children!"

🌿 What else can we say? We love what we do and we adore the families who trust us to be what they need during this time. 🤸🏽‍♀️

Read more reviews & learn about our:
🔸Birth & postpartum doula services in MA, NH, RI, ME
🔸Virtual & in-person support groups for families
🔸Events for parents and kids
🔸Childbirth education, Spinning Babies, Newborn Care classes & more
🔸Maternity, birth, newborn photography
🔸Full Spectrum Doula Training

www.thelemongrove.care

01/06/2026

🤱🏽 Next Interdisciplinary Feeding Group is THIS WEEK! 👩🏽‍🍼

🍋 Join us on the second Friday of the month from 10AM–11 AM for our FREE Interdisciplinary Feeding Group—get real time support for breast/chestfeeding your newborn.

✨ Facilitated by Aarani Montanari, MS, IBCLC () and co-hosted by Meagan O’Neill, MSPT, CIMC () offering both feeding and functional support.

🍼 Perks of joining the group
🔸Meet other breast/chestfeeding parents
🔸Get hands on support
🔸Drop in- no commitment necessary

🧡 Come as you are.
Sweats welcome. Dirty hair welcome. Partners, questions, and big feelings all welcome.

👉🏽 RSVP: www.thelemongrove.care/community-events

01/04/2026

🎪 A Peek Behind the Curtains 🎪

🍋 On socials + in our newsletters, we typically share what we are directly doing for our clients & community, and this time I wanted to highlight two new things we're doing at The Lemon Grove for our team:
🔸Doula Team Support Group: Facilitated by
🔸Doula Team Mentorship: Facilitated by .hathaway.doula & .russo.gilliam

🌿 We are so proud to share that this is the next level up for investing in supporting our team from within, because we are committed to promoting doula sustainability - both for the doulas' sake and for our clients'. We are humbled with gratitude that we have the privilege of living this wildly beautiful doula life - and we know that we need to care for ourselves and one another so we can keep doing this for the future. At The Lemon Grove, we specialize in supporting folks who have experienced Infertility, loss, complex medical issues for themselves or baby or both, traumas, and/or are otherwise marginalized, which highlights why we need to join one another in literal and figurative space so we can share lessons learned, questions, & resources.

🍋 We're sharing this here for a few reasons:
🔸To share that what we value for our clients + community is aligned with what we value for our team. 🫶🏽
🔸To hold ourselves accountable as leadership to keep thinking about new ways to best support the amazing doulas we work with + to care for ourselves the way we would encourage our clients to care for themselves. 🫂
🔸To hopefully have scheduling magically work out so that when not with birth/sibling doula clients, most of the team can attend most of the time. 🤞🏽

🥳 Happy 2026! Let's go! 🎉

~ Marissa H. 🩷

👇🏽Check out our website for doula & photography services, pregnancy & parenting classes, support groups, & events:

www.thelemongrove.care

01/01/2026

🚨 New Blog Post is Up! 🚨

🍋 With today being the first of the New Year, skip traditional weight-loss resolutions and let go of the pressure to return to your pre-baby body. Hannah Daigneault, MS, RD, LDN shares her tips in “The Bounce-Back Trap: What if You Just Want to Feel Like Yourself Again?”.

🌿Hannah helps moms move beyond diet culture with expert dietitian insight and real-world motherhood experience, covering:
🔸Feeling Uncomfortable in Your Postpartum Body Doesn’t Mean You’re Failing
🔸The Postpartum Body Changes You Probably Weren’t Warned About
🔸Why Postpartum Body Discomfort Feels So Intense
🔸The Difference Between “Feeling Like Yourself” and Pursuing Weight Loss
🔸What Actually Helps When You’re Uncomfortable
🔸Where and When to Get Support

Hannah’s values line up with ours as a HAES-aligned, Q***r Affirming practitioner.

Give her a follow:and.well

👀 Keep an eye on our weekly blog posts and join us for community events!

www.thelemongrove.care/blog
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12/28/2025

🥳 Ringing in the New Year & New Offerings 🥳

🍋 We are proud to share amazing things coming to you via The Lemon Grove in 2026, and we figured we'd start by sharing our:
🔸Classes
🔸Support Groups
🔸Story Shares
🔸January, February, & March overviews (more to come!)

🌿 We are excited for so many collaborations next year! You can anticipate seeing us work together with folks in the community for:
🔸Our walk in May
🔸Our inaugural Doula Retreat in June
🔸Blog posts
🔸In-services for doulas on the team
🔸Workshops for the perinatal community
🔸Classes
🔸Support groups
🔸Events

🍋 We would love to hear what you've been waiting to see, and look forward to seeing you at these events in the new year!

www.thelemongrove.care/community-events

12/26/2025

❄️ The Post Birth Drive Home ❄️

🍋 On Christmas/the day after Christmas, I supported two families with their births, separated by just a few rooms and some hours. More reflections on those births still to come, most likely. 🫶🏽

🌿 On the drive home to West Newbury this morning, I felt such gratitude and awe for the work we do, the teams we work with, the families we support, and the magic, logistics, hope, skills, & more that all make these family dreams come to life.

🍋 This dirt road in between protected wildlife with potholes that tease swallowing us up on the drive, is a favorite spot along my commute for contemplation since our move in July. The literal slow down to take in how "wild" it all is, and the reminder there is no place I'd rather be.

I hope you're able to find your moments of clarity & calm reflection in the wild today. 🍃

~ Marissa H. hathaway.doula

12/24/2025

❄️ Happy Holidays from The Lemon Grove! ❄️

🍋 Wishing you and yours a beautifully cozy, healthy, happy, and fulfilling holiday season.

🌿 We love supporting your families through education, advocacy, community, photography, doula services, & more! Our hearts are full of joy and merriment all year long, knowing that YOU are the best gifts of all!

🍋 If we missed you when sending out our holiday cards this year, please let us know so we can include you next year! (community@thelemongrove.care)

🪩 Classes & support groups are LIVE for 2026 and stay tuned for great upcoming posts about them!

www.thelemongrove.care

12/18/2025

📢 Reminder: We're Here for LGBTQ+ Folx All Year 'Round!

🍋 My daughter, Eloise, chose my outfit today, and my (amazing) rainbow cardigan is here to remind you that we at The Lemon Grove are here for our:
🔸LGBTQ+ doulas
🔸LGBTQ+ families
🔸LGBTQ+ perinatal colleagues
🔸LGBTQ+ community in all its forms

YEAR ROUND. Not just in June when it's parades & sunshine - though we love Pride "Season", too, and are grateful to the folx that make those sparkling rainbow days of resistance possible. 💪🏽 ✨

🗓️ Speaking of which, check out to follow along for updates & opportunities for involvement for the Tri-Town Pride Parade on June 7, 2026.

🌈 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🪩

12/18/2025

🚨 New Blog Post is Up! 🚨

🍋 With hustle & bustle of holiday season in full effect, IBCLC Aarani Montanari shares preventative & responsive tips for "Mastitis During the Holidays: What Every Breastfeeding Parent Should Know".

🌿 Aarani breaks it down with evidence-based yet real-mom-realness re:
🔸What IS mastitis?
🔸Why Mastitis Shows Up More During the Holidays
🔸What To Avoid
🔸When to Reach Out to your Healthcare Provider
🔸Holiday-Specific Prevention Tips

👀 Looking for more lactation support? Starting in January, Aarani will be at The Lemon Grove for:

🗓️ FREE Monthly inclusive & interdisciplinary feeding support groups
🤓 Bi-Monthly Prenatal Group Lactation Class

Check Out New Year - New Support:

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