Workshops & Events

October 6, 2026-November 20
Dancing for Birth
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Your birth prep trifecta in one class: prenatal fitness, childbirth education, and a celebration of pregnancy, birth, and parenting.

Join the 6-week session starting October 6th every Tuesday at 6:30pm and Friday at 12pm. Your first class is free and there is a gift with each session.

Register by emailing swalima6@gmail.com, DM on instagram @bbpenda_or facebook BB-Penda with "Yes to dancing for birth"

April 18, 2026
Baby-wearing from Infant to Toddler

Join us for a fun and relaxed session all about baby-wearing as your little one grows! Whether you're new or experience, we'll share tip and tricks to keep your baby comfy and close from infant to toddler.

Come hang out, learn, and connect with other parents!

October 4, 2025
Book Talk with Betsy Cornwell, reading from A Ring of Salt
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Join NYT bestseller and founder of The Old Knitting Factory, Betsy Cornwell, at Baltimore Community Midwives for a reading and Q&A in celebration of her debut memoir Ring of Salt. Betsy will speak about survivorship, writing queer retellings of fairy tales and classic novels, and the power of community in supporting single parents.

After moving to Ireland to finish her first young adult novel, novelist Betsy Cornwell fell in love, both with the country itself and a handsome horse trainer. On her baby's first birthday, she flees an abusive marriage and, on a single-digit bank account balance, barely gets by with writing gigs and the support of both an online community of Smith College alumnae and a domestic abuse service in Galway. As she navigates the constraints of being a homeless single mother in a foreign country, she dreams of one day being able to provide a home for her son – a home where she could also offer artist retreats for other single mothers, with childcare included. When she starts writing online about her dream of buying a home no one can take away from her, a global network of women, most of them strangers, step in and slowly help her achieve an unlikely dream: crowdfunding a rent-to-own offer on a 1906 knitting factory in rural Ireland, originally meant as a school to teach textile skills to unmarried women as a means of self-sufficiency, and transforming it into a safe home for herself and her son and a residency space for other single moms, cultivating community by offering free, childcare-inclusive retreat space to make art.
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Maid meets Under the Tuscan Sun in this inspiring memoir as Cornwell combines a powerful and relatable narrative of survivorship and healing with lush writing about the windswept landscapes and rich mythology of rural Ireland to craft a real-world fairy tale about the ordinary, but no less life-changing, forms of magic we can all access: vulnerability, community, and the power of telling your own story.
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A limited number of books will be available on site, or can be pre-ordered at a 15% discount from your favorite local bookstore via Bookshop.org with code Betsy15.Before your copy arrives, get a flavor for the story in Betsy's NYT Modern Love essay.

Ideas for workshops can be about gender, supporting new parents, teaching about the pelvic floor, certification classes like CPR, NRP, etc., childbirth education classes, yoga, the latest research on pacifiers, you name it! We are hoping to rent our space for community events that support parents, families, and children.

All workshops will be held on Google Meet, in person, or hybrid. Please check each event for details!