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

02/15/2026

✊🏽 Belsito for Congress ✊🏽

🍋 Last week, we participated in so many amazing events that it may just take us this whole week to share them with you (and to recover)!

🌿 First up: Meet & Greet at , a local coffee shop in Topsfield, long committed to being a spot that promotes inclusivity & human rights. We were happy to be there with .janellesneighborschool , President of the we're proud to be part of, too.

🍋 It's impossible to capture decades of Jamie's commitment to advancing & protecting the same values we share at The Lemon Grove in just one post, so we'll highlight her maternal health work, especially as she's coming to TLG for two important events:
🔸March 6th 6pm-8pm: PMADs Story Share
🔸May 16th: 10am-1pm: Tri-Town Chapter Postpartum Support International Climb event

🌿 "Jamie is one of the nation’s leading voices in maternal mental health. From her kitchen table, she helped spark a national movement that changed federal law. A former Board Member of the Massachusetts March of Dimes, she founded the Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance and serves as a Board Member of the Marcé Society of North America, advancing perinatal mental health research and clinical care. Her work has helped pass three federal laws, including:
- The National Maternal Mental Health Hotline
- Over $86 million in federal funding for state programs
- The first maternal mental health program for U.S. military families
These wins are helping families in every state, including right here on the North Shore, Merrimack Valley, and Cape Ann."

02/11/2026

🍼 Our 1st Baby Shower at The Lemon Grove 🍼

🍋 There are so many beautiful, exciting things to share this week from The Lemon Grove, so next up: our very first baby shower hosted here. We had baby namings & a brit milah, and this past weekend .roth 's brother had their baby shower here.

🌿 Preparation for birthing & welcoming a baby can come with so many complex feelings and potential overwhelm. As doulas and a perinatal wellness collaborative, we can help you:
🔸PRIORITIZE what is right for YOUR family
🔸SEPARATE & understand evidence-based info v. anecdotal sharing
🔸CONNECT you with the other perinatal professionals that can provide wraparound support & families to provide you with community
🔸EDUCATE yourselves prenatally so there are less surprises and more confidence

👇🏽 What was the best advice you received? What was the best investment in your perinatal experience? What was the single most impactful tool/item? What was the most impactful service/professional support? How did those differ from expectation to reality?

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02/11/2026

🎉 DOULA RETREAT 2026 🎉

🍋 We are so excited to share one of the biggest things we've been working on this year: our inaugural Doula Retreat!

🌿 As doulas, we are committed to caring for our clients, and we do that best when we are able to care for ourselves, which is why we built this one-of-a-kind exclusive doula retreat, centered on:
🔸Doula care
🔸Self care
🔸Business care

🍋 Join us for a doula retreat to provide community, connection, and education in the idyllic setting of Essex Woods.

🌿 Meals, education, and self-care treatments such as massage are included in the fee. Lodging on site for additional fees varies based on room occupancy.

🍋 Please contact community@thelemongrove.care if financial assistance is needed.

📅 June 9-11, 2026
📍 Essex, MA
🤓 Investment: $750/person

👇🏽 What are you most excited for?

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02/08/2026

🤱🏽 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

*Photos shared w/permission

02/06/2026

🥰 Women Supporting Women (and Their Families) 🥰

🍋 Today is shaping up to be a great day for all things community!

🌿 We had a visit from Julee of and Caroline of ! You all know about Caroline because of her beautiful murals in our space and her spectacular art show last year that benefited . You may recognize Julee & RRF from the events that they have hosted at The Lemon Grove, such as caregiver yoga & inclusive dance parties. Stay tuned for more to come with future collaborations with the Rare Road Foundation x The Lemon Grove! We loved chatting together about the POWER of collaboration, shared visions, and passionate moms doing their best for one another and our kids/future generations.
🔸 We'll be seeing Julee & Caroline at the RRF Gala on February 28th! Caroline created a full collection for the gala. From Caroline:

"To give some framework for the dark floral backgrounds in this collection, I saw it as there is uncertainty, and just so many unknowns you face when you receive a rare diagnosis for your child or have to face extensive medical care, but then amidst that there is this beautiful, unique child that illuminates that darkness. They are different from any of my previous works based on their color schemes, and highlighting just one type of flower in each pieces. The theme is rare flowers to celebrate the beauty in each child with a rare diagnosis."
🔸Check out the piece I pre-purchased! This flower is the Night Blooming Cereus and I cereus-ly did make flower puns to convince them I could give it the best home, and it'll still be on display at the gala. Reach out to either of them to see other pieces available!
🔸And we'll be seeing them both at the September Story Share, centered around medically complex children and/or NICU stories.

🍋 We also are about to have a visit from Andi at who is dropping of a flyer for us to share. We're happy to be a sponsor and to donate a raffle item for their incredibly important fundraiser for abortion access on International Women's Day, on March 7th! More to come in a special post just for that event!

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02/04/2026

🏕️ Living at BI for the Next 2 Months! 🏕️

🍋 It just so happens I'll be "living" at BI for the next two months or so, supporting all of my clients in that timeframe here. BI is one of my favorite hospitals to support births at, because of their commitment to:
🔸HAES affirming care
🔸LGBTQ+ affirming care
🔸Trauma-informed care
🔸VBACs

🌿 Having experience - and ongoing experience - at many birth locations in the area helps me help families choose the place that feels right for them, based on what they're valuing in their experience, and setting expectations and building confidence around clinical culture and comfort measures available. This support in "matchmaking" is something I am DEEPLY passionate about, as choosing the place that aligns with ones values can make such a difference in outcomes and satisfaction with the experience, which is why my DMs/e-mail are always open for conversations around this!

👏🏽Where 👏🏽 you 👏🏽 birth 👏🏽 matters.

~ Marissa H. .hathaway.doula

👇🏽How did/do you feel about where you're receiving care from? Did you switch care teams during your perinatal experience? How did the anticipation of switching compare to how it happened?

Have questions? We are here to help!
welcome@thelemongrove.care
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02/02/2026

🎉 Client Love 🎉

🍋 We've said it before and we'll say it for years to come: we really do love when we have the privilege of supporting families in multiple ways. For this family, we provided:
🔸A private childbirth education class - because wildly different schedules, a crosscountry move, & a quickly-approaching due date are a lot to manage at once but shouldn't be barriers to receiving education or building confidence.
🔸Postpartum doula support with two wonderful doulas whose approaches COMPLEMENTED one another instead of conflicting - just the way it should be.
🔸Holiday photos, with mom's grandmother's heirloom Dior coat that was miraculously spared from CA fires.

🌿 On doula support: " I 100% trusted them with my baby and I learned a lot of valuable information as a first time mother."

📸 On photography: "I love the photos! I’m so grateful for you. They are moments of a beautiful time captured that we now will have forever!"

Photos by .hathaway.doula
*Shared w/permission

🍋 Full Spectrum Doula Agency
🌿 Doula Training Organization
🍋 Childbirth & Parenting Education
🌿 Support Groups & Events for Caregivers and Families
🍋 Photography

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

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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

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