Let's just say: My own need for a support group led me to organize one.

I, Anila Weldon, am the Founder and Co-Facilitator for WeldonMoms®.

As most of you already know, I have been a career woman all my life. My field of expertise being IT, Marketing and Public Speaking.

My mother (Meher Weldon) has been a housewife all her life. When I had my baby I wanted to find a balance between the two acts. Career and home, both felt equally important and I had to find friends who could understand both sides of my life.
Right after my son Mustafa Gill was born, I felt isolated and cut-off from the rest of the world.  My friends, my business associates and my husband's friends (mostly musicians) could not understand why I can't just give the baby to someone for a day and get rest for 8 hours straight through the night. There were a million questions in my head, about the baby, which no book or websites could answer. When I asked my mom, my saas, my Nanijan , each one had a theory of her own. All theories were contradicting and therefore confusing.

With a first baby, most women are quite focused on preparing for the birth and it can be difficult to think of life with the baby around.

New mothers usually say that isolation is one of the big challenges of caring for a newborn. Also, there are a million questions and emotions that only another new mother can understand and. Even parents with older babies forget the intensity of the first few months. I think that you will find the experience of meeting with other mothers of babies under 18 months of age to be a magical and fun experience.