Macaroni KID Guest Expert
Sarah Cooper | Baby and Me
Early parenthood is full of questions that don't always have tidy answers. Sarah Cooper brings an early relational health perspective to those complicated spaces, helping parents look beyond milestones, behaviors and checklists to understand what is happening within the relationship between parent and child.
What You'll Find Here
Sarah is a recurring guest contributor to Macaroni KID, sharing thoughtful, research-informed perspectives on pregnancy, postpartum life, parenting young children and the relationships that shape a family's earliest years.
Topics may include bonding and attachment, parental wellbeing, challenging behavior, feeding, developmental differences, major transitions, parent-child connection and the sometimes-messy emotional reality behind the numbers, milestones and expectations of early parenthood.
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About Sarah
Meet Sarah Cooper, MA, IMH-E®, PMH-C
Sarah Cooper is an Early Relational Health Consultant and founder of Baby and Me. She has more than 20 years of experience supporting young children, families and early childhood professionals and holds a master's degree in Applied Child and Adolescent Development from the University of Minnesota.
Sarah is endorsed by the Pennsylvania Alliance for Infant Mental Health, holds certification in Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders, has spent 10 years working as an Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant, and works as an Early Intervention Special Instructor with a behavior specialty.
Through Baby and Me, Sarah supports families with children ages 0–6, including families navigating pregnancy and postpartum, developmental differences, challenging behavior, parenting stress, major transitions and patterns within the parent-child relationship they want help understanding.
Why Baby and Me Matters to Me
Sometimes the person who needs support is the parent, too.
There was a season in my own parenting life when I was surrounded by support for my children: therapists, appointments, evaluations, sensory tools, curriculum, medical decisions and new routines layered on top of old ones. Everyone needed something from me, and somewhere along the way, I stopped remembering that I was a whole person who was allowed to need support, too.
That's part of why Baby and Me resonates so deeply with me. Parenting support isn't always about fixing a problem in a child. Sometimes it's about helping a parent feel seen, understand what's happening in the relationship, rebuild trust in themselves and find their footing again.
Every parent has a storm season. Every parent deserves a safe harbor. Baby and Me isn't there to steer the ship for you, but to help hand you the map, hold the umbrella and remind you that you don't have to weather it alone.
Need Support in Your Own Parenting Season?
You don't have to figure it all out alone.
Learn more about Sarah's work with families through Baby and Me, or come back here as we continue adding her guest perspectives to the Macaroni KID library.
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