Raleigh Baby Planner offers expecting parents guidance
In her work as a pediatric nurse practitioner, Colleen Parrish has found that her favorite moments are teaching new parents how to take care of their babies. She's launched Raleigh Baby Planner to help educate them.
Posted — UpdatedIn her work as a pediatric nurse practitioner, Colleen Parrish has found that her favorite moments are teaching new parents how to take care of their babies.
But Parrish, a Raleigh mom of two young children of her own, also felt like she never had enough time to tell them all they really needed to know during patient visits.
The result, she says: Parents bringing their infants to the doctor with common concerns such as fussiness or sleeping issues, often topics they might not be so worried about if they'd had the right preparation to begin with.
Parrish brings lots of knowledge and personal experience to the business. She is a certified Happiest Baby Educator, which is based on the techniques developed by Dr. Harvey Karp to soothe fussy babies. She also is a certified lactation counselor and awaiting results from a test to become an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. And she is a Certified Baby Planner through the International Academy of Baby Planner Professionals, which is part of the International Maternity Institute.
The baby planning industry is a growing one, thanks in some small part to Bravo's "Pregnant in Heels," which follows fashion designer and parent educator Rosie Pope as she helps high-end clients.
But Parrish said you don't need to be a millionaire ... or even close to one ... to be able to afford the services of Raleigh Baby Planner.
"A lot of people hear about baby planners and they think it's just a luxury service," she tells me. "In fact, it's not. It's really not expensive. You don't have to be wealthy to have a baby planner. Really, it's all about education."
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