La Leche League
Group Gathering for Ongoing Support
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Who comes to LLL meetings?
La Leche League meetings welcome anyone who is pregnant, nursing, hand expressing, exclusively pumping, combination feeding, providing their own milk or donor milk for a child, or trying to do so. We also welcome those who are interested in the information we offer.You might see someone expressing milk or using a bottle at an LLL meeting, you might see toddlers being breastfed – all are welcome.
La Leche League is all about nurturing. We support anyone who nurses or provides human milk in having wonderfully close, satisfying relationships with their babies.Babies and children are welcome at LLL meetings. Toys, books and activities are sometimes provided for older children.
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Meetings happen regularly on a monthly bases
Regular meetings occur on 2nd Wednesdays each month at 6:30pm and the 2nd Saturday each month at 10am
When you come, please park in spaces painted NCBC, if possible
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Please go to the first floor meeting room marked Gather 104.
Postpartum
Support Group
Free
5-Week Session
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Join Andrea and other parents with newborns to gather in an empathetic, evidence-based, non-judgmental, supportive space which welcomes families of all kinds. The goals of this group are to create community among parents who are experiencing the joys alongside the exhaustion of parenting a newborn, to offer evidence-based information to inform your parenting decisions, to provide practical and emotional support to parents during the vulnerable postpartum period and to instill in parents a feeling of calm and confidence when making choices for their families.
This FREE weekly support group for newly postpartum parents (and their support partners) will be held weekly on Wednesdays from 9:30am to 11am. There will be five 6 week sessions offered in 2026. Attendance during the entire 6 week session is encouraged to create a cohesive community atmosphere, but is not required.
Session Topics:
Week 1 - Baby’s Arrival: Processing Your Birth & Immediate Postpartum Experiences
Week 2 - Infant Feeding Challenges and Successes
Week 3 - Maternal Mental Health & Family Sleep
Week 4 - Adjusting to Parenthood: What Self Care Really Looks Like Postpartum & Discovering Your Parenting Style
Week 5 - Setting, Communicating and Holding Boundaries with Family, Friends and Ourselves as New Parents
Week 6 - Clothing Exchange & Guest Speaker -
Session Start Dates: January 7, February 18 and April 8, September 9 and October 21.
When: Weekly Wednesdays from 9:30am to 11am
Cost: FREE
Location: NCBC’s Gather 104 Classroom
930 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Suite 104; Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Pregnant Parent
Support Group
Free
11-Week Session
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Join Andrea and other expecting parents and parents on their fertility journeys to gather in an empathetic, evidence-based, non-judgmental, supportive space which welcomes families of all kinds. The goals of this group are to create community among parents who are preparing for the joys alongside the exhaustion of birth and parenting a newborn, to offer evidence-based information to inform your birth and parenting decisions, to provide practical and emotional support to parents and to instill in parents a feeling of calm and confidence when making choices for their families.
This FREE weekly support group for pregnant/expecting parents (and their support partners) will be held weekly on Sundays from 7:15pm to 8:30pm. There will be 10 meetings with five focused on prenatal/birth topics led by certified birth doula, Elyse Barrick of Dogwood Doula Collective, and five focused on postpartum topics led by postpartum doula and Certified Lactation Counselor, Andrea Fowler of Gift of Love Postpartum Care. Attendance at every meeting starting on January 18 is encouraged to create a cohesive community atmosphere, but is not required.
Session Topics:
January 18 - Planning for Your Postpartum Recovery
January 25 - Aligning Your Values and Beliefs for Prenatal Care and Decision Making
February 1 - Infant Feeding Options Q&A
February 8 - Body Ready: Movement for Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond
February 15 - Family Sleep Solutions
February 22 - All About Physiological Birth
March 1 - Adjusting to Parenthood: Maternal Mental Health, Self Care & Discovering Your Parenting Style
March 8 - Evidence on Common Interventions for Labor, Birth, and Newborn Care
March 15 - Communicating and Holding Boundaries with Family, Friends and Ourselves as New Parents
March 22 - Preparing for Labor: Comfort Measures, Partner Support, and Strategies for Labor
March 29 - Clothing and Recipe Exchange -
Session Start Date: January 18th, 2026
When: Weekly Sundays from 7:15pm to 8:30pm
Cost: FREE
Location: NCBC’s Gather 104 Classroom
930 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Suite 104; Chapel Hill, NC 27514