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Baby Moon is proud to announce a new family resource in the Monterey Bay! The Family Nurture Collaborative is a talented group of professionals offering classes and support to the community. Visit the Family Nuture Collaborative online here for updates on classes and events.
Breastfeeding Made Simple
Prenatal Breastfeeding Class
Taught by Sonja Massey, RN, IBCLC
Are you pregnant? Do you want to learn about breastfeeding? American Academy Pediatric Standards will be discussed. Learn about breastfeeding and ask questions in a safe and supportive environment. Get the best information to help you and baby get the best start breastfeeding. Recommended during the third trimester. Space is limited. Class tuition is $20 for mom and dad.
Monday, July 19
Monday, September 22
5:00-7:00pm
Click here to view the flyer with registration information
Pumping and Storing Breast Milk
Helpful Information for Breastfeeding and the Working Mom
This class is for anyone wanting more information about Pumping and Bottle Feeding! Ideal information for the already Working and Pumping Moms!
Coming Soon
5:00-6:30pm
Click here to see the Flyer
You can enroll in Baby Moon classes online ! Space is limited to ten participants. You will receive an email confirmation shortly. Baby Moon must receive notice 24 hours before class if you are unable to attend in order to refund your deposit. Tuition is $10.00. You may also bring your deposit to the store.
Babies in arms are welcome!
1900 Garden Road in the Baby Moon Classroom
Monterey, CA, 93940
(831) 402-1MOM
Taught by Sonja Massey, RN, IBCLC
Call Sonja at 402-1MOM to Reserve your Seat
Breastfeeding Support Group
This is a safe place for you to ask an expert and other moms
your breastfeeding questions and receive support to feel
confident about your breastfeeding experience. Also share
your challenges and joys about breastfeeding.
Offered by Sonja Massey of Baby Moon, Registered Nurse and Lactation Consultant
Now at Parents' Place Earth Room
Wednesdays
June 23
July28
August 25
September 22
4:30-6:00pm
Click here to view the flyer
Parents' Place Earth Room
(831) 402-1MOM
(831) 402-1666
Groups are free, donations accepted, and please bring your babies
Questions? Please call Sonja at 402-1MOM
Super Baby Foods: Starting Solid Foods Class
Learn about preparing and introducing healthy solid foods to your baby!
June 21 at Baby Moon
5:00-7:00pm
Click Here to View the Flyer
Space is limited. This class fills up quickly! Reserve your space by clicking Reserve Now and paying your $30.00 class fee online.
Tuition includes lecture, booklet, and food demonstrations. A 24 hour notice of cancellation is needed to refund your registration fee.
You may also visit the store to drop off your reservation.
New! Future classes are now in partnership with Parent's Place!
The Super Baby Food Class is scheduled for
Thursday, July 22
and
Thursday, September 23
Click here to download the flyer with registration information
Also available- a new Toddler Nutrition Class
Thursday, August 26
Time for all classes: 5-7pm
Tuition: $15 per person
A note from Suzi leBon, Instructor:
I have twenty years of experience working as a Registered Dietitian in hospitals, clinics and schools. I have worked with infants, kids, teens, adults (including pregnant and lactating) and elderly patients. I am a Certified Nutrition Support Clinician, Certified in Pediatric and Adolescent Weight Management and a Certified Lactation Counselor. I recently completed my Adult Education Teaching Credential.
Together with Sonja we have been teaching our "baby food classes" for 4 years now. We have been friends since elementary school, so we thought it would be fun to do -- and it is!! So please join us!
My goal is to educate clients on simple and practical diet changes they can make to better their lives.
I believe in the power of good nutrition and an active family lifestyle for preventing and reversing many of our illnesses! I believe if we can start eating healthy at a young age, we will continue to do so and therefore have much longer and healthier life.
If you have questions, I work by appointment only. Click here to visit my website. Call or email me at 831-402-1082 or s.lebon@sbcglobal.net
Parents' Place Earth Room
1025 Lighthouse Ave.
Pacific Grove, CA, 93950
(831) 402-1MOM
(831) 402-1666
Offered by Suzanne LeBon, Registered Dietitian
The Happiest Baby: 5 Simple Ways to Turn on the Calming Reflex in your Baby
Faciliated by Tricia Williams, Certified Happiest Baby on the Block Instructor, Childbirth Educator
Ideas and tools to help you calm your baby and gain confidence in your parenting abilities. Recommended during the second or third trimester, or come with your baby!
Space is limited to 10 so please send in your reservation, call (831) 646-6623 to reserve with a credit card, or email Tricia.
Monday, July 12
Monday, September 13
5-7pm
Tuition is $15 a person
DVDs will be available for purchase
Click here to see the flyer with registration information
Modern Diapers for Modern Moms and Dads
We are excited to present information on diapering options, including the pros and cons of different products, the logistics of using cloth diapers, diaper recycling, diaper exchanging, and more!
Coming Soon
3:00-4:30pm
Click here to see the flyer
You can enroll in Baby Moon classes online ! Space is limited. Your will receive an email confirmation shortly. Baby Moon must receive notice 24 hours before class if you are unable to attend in order to refund your deposit. Tuition is $5.00. You may also bring your deposit to the store.
1900 Garden Road Second Floor Classroom
Monterey, CA, 93940
(831) 402-1MOM
Taught by Chandra
Call Sonja at 402-1MOM to Reserve your Seat
Baby Moon Stories
Baby Moon is great. They have the cutest baby stuff for babies, and lots of great stuff for mamas. Sonja is awesome, if it wasn't for her I don't know what Ii would have done. She helped me so much with breastfeeding my twin boys. I loved the breastfeeding support group! Thank you so much!!
Genevieve's Rating: 
From:
Bryna S
Date:
Fri. Oct. 31, 2008
What can I say about Baby Moon? We first found Sonja and Baby Moon through our amazing and wonderful pediatrician, and he sent us there to get the breastfeeding help we so desperately needed! We just didn't get a lot of help at the hospital, a lot of babies were born that weekend! We went to the free breastfeeding support group when our daughter was just 4 days old and what an awesome experience! We met new mommies who were friendly and supportive, but most of all Sonja gave us just what we needed, the confidence to know we were doing a good job, and the right techniques to make sure we could pursue a successful nursing relationship. What a bond breastfeeding is! We owe 2 years of lovely, successful nursing to Sonja, something we will always be grateful for. She was made for this field. She's compassionate, thoughtful, endlessly patient, and very warm and loving. It's such a HUGE difference from the cursory information you get online, in childbirth classes, or in videos, or even in the hospital. I'd recommend EVERY new mom attend breastfeeding support group at Baby Moon, and see Sonja if you feel at all like you'd like some more help and guidance! Monterey Peninsula is truly blessed to have such a resource at their doorstep!
Not only that, but I owe my career to Sonja, as well. Soon after we got started and established nursing, I began wondering why there weren't more people helping moms the way Sonja does. She took me under her wing, and was kind enough to teach me all she knew, while giving me a job that I could bring my baby to! When I began my own personal cheffing business, Sonja gave me more support than I could ever have asked for!
Soon after that, I was privileged with being able to work with many of the moms and babies in the office, and Sonja even supported me in the pursuit of my Lactation Counselor Certification, which I now have, and is continuing to support me in my journey to become a lactation consultant. I couldn't ask for a better role model. She's just the greatest!
I've since moved from the Peninsula, but not a day goes by that I don't miss Baby Moon, and Sonja, who has become like family to me. I wish there were more than just 5 stars to give! Please stop by, even if it's juts for a cup of tea and a weight check, and you'll see what I mean. You'll soon become part of the Baby Moon family, too!
Bryna's Rating:
If you are pregnant or have a baby this is a place you must go to. Sonja is wonderful. she has helped me nurse my child and I would never have been able to do it without her help and encouragement. If I had any questions, I could always call and I would get a answer; plus, I could go there anytime for a weight check or to buy anything I needed for my baby and myself.
perrine's Rating:
I just wanted to tell you thank you soooo much for helping me with breastfeeding! You are wonderful! It is such a blessing to know someone so kind and knowledgeable as you to help. After having mastitis 3 times in three months, I knew something was wrong. After you telling me that I had too much milk, I then realized that seemed to be the problem. I did many of the things you suggested: soy lecithin, sage, peppermint, emptying out one side before offering the other, waiting longer between feedings, and lying down to feed because my let down is so forceful. All of these things have helped me so much. For the past week, I have not felt too full at all. She is emptying me out beautifully. Lisa is no longer as fussy, and she hasn’t spit up in a few days either! She’s getting used to the world, and I’m enjoying my “honeymoon with my new baby.”
Thanks for all of your advice! I wish everyone had you to talk to while they are breastfeeding. God bless you!
-From a thankful mom in Pacific Grove
My son Alexander just turned 8 months and I am still breastfeeding! What a joy!
What's the big deal one may ask...Well Alexander was born 3 weeks before his due date and he did not want to nurse much at the beginning. As a result, instead of gaining weight, he was losing weight. My doctor gave me Sonja’s phone number and I call her, crying, the very minute I walked out of the doctor’s office. I had seen her name several places but it had never crossed my mind that I would have problems with breastfeeding. It always looked like such an easy and peaceful process. To breastfeed was one of my deepest desires. Needless to say, I was one stressed out, sleep deprived and very very concerned mom...
Thanks to Sonja and Robin's expert and loving advice, I was able to master the art of breastfeeding in a couple of weeks and feed my baby what's best for him. Then when he was 6 weeks old I had to go back to work and most people were telling me to kiss breastfeeding good bye, or at least exclusive breastfeeding. Alexander is 8 months old and he is exclusively breast fed!!! Just this past Tuesday I went to our support group for working moms and was a little bit down because my milk had been low for a few weeks and I wasn't able to bring it up. I though it was time now to say good bye and buy some formula... However, Sonja had a suggestion to me and now my milk is up again and both my baby and I are a happy couple again! He has been experimenting with solids lately and thanks to what I learned at the Super Baby food class with Sonja and Suzi I've been feeding Alexander a balanced and home-made diet with very little effort.
Thank you again and again for your help and support - you are priceless!
-Dessislava Reynolds, CA
Sonja Massey was a caring and knowledgeable support for me and my baby. My daughter took to nursing quickly but the many different opinions and advice got confusing in those first weeks. Should she nurse 15 minutes or as long as she liked? Should she use a pacifier in the early days or not? Sonja listened and gave wonderful advice backed by research. Later, when I returned to work, Sonja supported my continued nursing. When my milk supply started to go down, she had lots of ideas to help me and my baby get through the first six months. She loves babies and is committed to healthy families. My daughter is now a strong, healthy two year old. We both appreciate all that Sonja did for us.
-Lenka Vodicka, Nevada City, CA (happens to be Sonja's niece, too)
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