Before and After Baby

Before and After Baby Facilitation services for personal and professional development through program management, community engagement and Co-parenting facilitation.

Before and After Baby offers co-parenting and parenting coaching/education, facilitation and training (in-person and virtually), program management including development, implementation and evaluation, specializing in non-profit or coalition capacity building and partnership development.

Validate. Be you.
08/05/2025

Validate. Be you.

Role model humility….parent effectively
07/29/2025

Role model humility….parent effectively

07/29/2025
If you are going to engage in a coparenting conversation, use some of these to help stay short, sweet, simple, and speci...
07/20/2025

If you are going to engage in a coparenting conversation, use some of these to help stay short, sweet, simple, and specific!

EXAMPLES OF AGREEING AND DISAGREEING POLITELY 📝🫶

You control only you in Coparenting conversations. 
07/18/2025

You control only you in Coparenting conversations. 

I mean, she isn’t wrong…..
07/14/2025

I mean, she isn’t wrong…..

👆4th of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Easter. She’s brash but she isn’t wrong.
07/04/2025

👆4th of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Easter. She’s brash but she isn’t wrong.

Great advice for dealing with a high conflict coparent (narcissist or not as that word is highly misunderstood and used ...
06/26/2025

Great advice for dealing with a high conflict coparent (narcissist or not as that word is highly misunderstood and used too much).

Great advice….coparents don’t tell each other what they’ve done right or wrong. Ask the question and if in writing ask y...
04/22/2025

Great advice….coparents don’t tell each other what they’ve done right or wrong. Ask the question and if in writing ask yourself what it actually says not what you “feel” it means.

It’s all about the “I” statements!
04/20/2025

It’s all about the “I” statements!

Could not have said it better…..
04/02/2025

Could not have said it better…..

03/21/2025

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50 Alpine Drive
Merced, CA
95340

Telephone

(209) 631-8511

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Before and After Baby began as a maternal child health education and support service in Merced County in 2006 with Emily Bernard. Emily received her Bachelors of Psychology with an emphasis in family counseling from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in 2004 with honors and continued on to complete her MA in Psychology with honors and received her certification as a Conscious Coparenting facilitator. Emily has been an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant since 2008, offering unique perspective and experience for those who have or serve children.

She has worked in numerous settings as a facilitator and trainer and letures and on various topics across the nation and online. She enjoys assisting families through birth, breastfeeding and attachment as well as more difficult times through coparenting. She excels in supporting organizations who are developing to make a difference within their communities or businesses looking to grow their networks. She ensures her work focuses around partnerships, communication, collaboration and a high level of equitable care.

As a mother of three, who has coparented, she knows how hard it can be for parents to find resources and improve themselves for their children. She prides herself in assisting families and helping other organizations with their unique needs.