Full Bloom offers Daddy and Baby Massage Class

Now Daddies in Athens, Ga., can get in on the fun enjoyed by Mommies for years.

Listen up, Daddies of Athens. Full Bloom is offering a Daddy Baby Massage and Yoga Class. No, the focus isn’t on Daddies. It’s on their babies. Participants will learn massage techniques and gentle exercises to sooth babies, improve digestion and circulation and enhance sleep. If you are a new Daddy and can’t remember what sleep is, it’s when you close your eyes for a moment and everything goes dark. The class promises to be fun, relaxing, low stress and beneficial. It’s targeted at newborns to pre-crawlers and for flabby and fit Daddies alike.. The class is Saturday, June 9th, from 10 to 11;15am. The cost is $20.  You can make a reservation on the website.                  The original story had the incorrect date.

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Rebecca McCarthy

2:34 pm on Sunday, June 3, 2012

Will make the change, thanks, Tammy. It is so very sad for Athens that it's closing.   more ›

Full Bloom to Close

The Athens resource center for parents and mothers closes June 16.

  Full Bloom, the resource center for soon-to-be mothers, mothers and women and parents in general, will close Saturday, June 16, after being in business four years. In a message, Full Bloom Founder Pat Nielsen said her plans include “working full time at Athens Regional, rediscovering my garden, traveling a little and spending time with my family - without whom I couldn't have made this journey,”   Located on North Milledge Avenue, the business was a welcoming place where expectant mothers could take pre-natal yoga classes and learn firsthand from other women and experts about birthing options. It was a place where new mothers could have questions and concerns addressed and could find new friends and resources. Full Bloom was founded, …

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Rebecca McCarthy

2:41 pm on Thursday, May 31, 2012

Kristi, I know so many friends who took prenatal yoga there. We bought trainer pants there for our girls, and people were so pleasant and positive. It's such a loss to the community.   more ›

Athens Today -- May 23

5 Things for Wednesday!

1. Qualifying for local partisan and non-partisan elections takes place today, Wednesday, at 9am, and continues through Friday, May 25 at 12pm. Commission seats in Districts 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 will open up next year, and several potential candidates have already expressed interest in running.  2. The Athens Farmers Market takes place this evening from 4pm-7pm, Downtown, in front of City Hall. 3. The folks at Full Bloom are busy today, with the Crawler’s Play Group at 10am, Mama-Baby Yoga at 10:30am, and Story Time at 4pm. 4.  A free informational program, presented by Boomers in Athens, will be held today in the Community Room at the Lyndon House Arts Center and online. Laura Leiden, associate broker at Keller Williams Realty, will talk …

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Athens Today--April 23

Happy Monday!

  If you don't have tickets to Garrison Keillor, too bad, you won't be going to see him tonight at the UGA Performing Arts Center. It's been sold out for weeks. Be glad for those who were more on the money than you and got their tickets early. They will love the one-man show of more stories than you can shake a snow shovel at. If you are pregnant, you will enjoy pre-natal yoga this evening, from 6:30 to 8pm, at Full Bloom. Relax and stretch. It's good for you and the baby. Put on your jammies--and your children's jammies--and head to the Athens Clarke County Library this evening at 7pm for a bedtime story. Just don't get so relaxed and sleepy you can't drive home. Plan to come to aoother get=to-know-the-neighborhood walk by the Athens …

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Nurture + Frolic

Moms Time Out

A new offering at Full Bloom gives mamas a fun, purposeful night out.

Mamas, I had a truly great time Tuesday night. Full Bloom now offers Moms Time Out, a once-a-month gathering for mothers to swap struggles and success stories about this motherhood gig we’ve all signed up for. Page McCormick, co-owner of reBlossom Mama Baby resale shop, organized the evening’s discussion about “peaceful parenting.” We gathered in the Full Bloom living room: snacks and drinks to share, a welcoming circle, easy introductions, big smiles, and small groups to dive into stories about conflict with our kids and how we try to swim those choppy waters of parenting. Despite the important topic, the energy was lighthearted. Moms felt physically lighter, too, without a diaper bag slung over a shoulder or a little one trying to stay …

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