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Dam Parenting Podcast

Nobody hands you a map when you have a baby in a country that isn't your own.

DAM Parenting is a weekly English-language podcast for international parents in the Netherlands: pregnancy and birth in the Dutch system, kraamzorg, postpartum, matrescence, relationships after kids, bilingual families, ADHD assessments, Dutch schools, and finding your people far from home.

Hosted by Eva, an Irish parent in Amsterdam. Honest, warm, non-judgemental. 200+ episodes with midwives, psychologists and parents telling the truth about how it actually went.

Browse every episode by topic at damparenting.nl

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  • weekly
  • Avg 25 min
  • English

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  • May 30 · 14 min

    You don't have to do this alone: MamaSocial, mum friendship and maternal mental health in the Netherlands

    We close Maternal Mental Health Month with something the research says matters just as much as therapy: community. Rachael Forester — therapist and new lead of MamaSocial — joins Dam Parenting to talk about why mum friends aren't optional. The science of co-regulation. Why female friendship in early motherhood is neurologically unique. And what MamaSocial — the community space for international mothers across the Netherlands — actually looks like to walk into for the first time. If you've moved to the Netherlands, newly pregnant or just looking to fine more mom frirneds and you're doing this without your village yet — this one is for you. MamaSocial runs events in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Haarlem and more. MamaSocial instagram page

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  • May 30 · 6 min

    Delft Mama - The Thing That Actually Helps Expat Isolation

    Maternal mental health doesn't always look like crisis. Sometimes it looks like not having a single person to call when your baby spikes a temperature at midnight. This week, as part of our Maternal Mental Health Month, Eva speaks to Robyn from Delft Mama — a volunteer-run charity that has been quietly building community for international families in and around Delft since 2007. They talk about what belonging actually does for a mother's mental health, why showing up to that first event is the hardest and most important step, and how a group of volunteers has built something that feels like the sisters and mothers so many of us left behind. If you're in the Delft area or the surrounding areas feeling like you still haven't found your people — this one's for you. Find Delft Mama on Instagram and Facebook, or at delfmama.nl. For international parents in the Netherlands. Every Wednesday.

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