SUPPORTING PARENTS OF MULTIPLES IN THE AUSTIN, TEXAS AREA

There are great benefits for members of APOM. Some of these benefits include access to our support network, monthly meetings with guest speakers, early access to our twice annual consignment sale, access to exclusive classifieds listings on our members-only Buy-Sell-Trade page, access to our members-only Facebook page and more!

Make it Sweet Cookie Decorating Class - January 13th, 2019 (4:30 to 7:00 pm)

Join us for a parents afternoon out and fundraiser for APOM! We’ll be learning how to decorate fancy Valentine’s Day cookies! If you’ve never take a Make It Sweet class, they’re a lot of fun and extremely informative. Want to impress all the Pinterest moms at your kids school? Come learn the tricks of the trade and decorate like a pro. Best part, they bake the cookie and they clean up! We just get to have fun decorating and then take home our box of goodies. You’re also welcome to bring your own alcoholic beverage if you’d like, or they offer water, sodas, teas, and coffee.

This event isn’t shared on their public page, but feel free to share the link to any friends and family! All are welcome at this! The class is normally $60 but we’re paying $40. You must register for a seat, to do so, click here:
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January Meeting - Stress and Anxiety in Parenting

January 28th 6:30 pm to 9 pm

St. Martin's Ev. Lutheran Church

Worrying seems to come with the territory with kids. Even before you are pregnant you worry about how you will afford them, what kind of parent will you be, and will your partner chnage diapers. Then you are expecting and you worry about their well being- twin to twin transfusion, prematurity- and yours- will you need a c-section, will you ever have a normal belly button again, how will you stuff your swollen feet into your shoes. Once they're born it continues- did they eat enough, did they poop enough, why aren't they sleeping, why are they sleeping so much, how will they ever go to college if you still swaddle them at 3 months. The list goes on and on- what about kindergarten, should we separate them or keep them together, will they have friends outside of each other, will they tem up and bully all their classmates.

But when does worry turn into anxiety and what can we do to ease the stress and worry that happens as parents? Austin Anxiety and OCD Specialists are sending us Dr Erika Vivyan to come help with all these questions and more.

Dr. Erika Vivyan is a licensed psychologist at Austin Anxiety and OCD Specialists. She earned her PhD from The University of Wisconsin and has extensive training in cognitive behavioral therapy, parent management training, and parent-child interaction therapy. Dr. Vivyan specializes in working with children, adolescents, and parents. She is dedicated to using evidence-based treatment interventions and strives to use an ecological, developmental, and culturally sensitive approach in her work with clients.

A pasta bar dinner will be served with gluten free, vegetarian, and vegan options available. Please RSVP at your soonest convenience so we can arrange for enough.