Responsible, Educated and Supportive: A Choice Moms Networking Event (D.C.)

Join us Mother's Day weekend, on Saturday, May 9, 12:30-5:00 p.m.,
at the Philips Rooms of the lovely Hotel Palomar at Dupont Circle

Hosted by Mikki Morrissette, Choice Moms founder and
author of Choosing Single Motherhood: The Thinking Woman's Guide

This event was prompted in part by the story of the D.C. Choice Mom who died on Christmas, having left her son well-prepared for because of the thought she had put into creating her estate plan. We will celebrate her legacy, and talk about how to build awareness in the Choice Mom community for her kind of foresight. Listen to her story on this Choice Chat podcast.

Agenda includes:

• 12:30 pm, check-in and informal lunch socializing
  
• 1 p.m., Welcome and Introductions with Mikki Morrissette, Choice Mom founder
  
• How to Protect our Children Legally, with Micah Salb
  
• How to Plan and Prepare Financially, with Rebecca Hall and Gayle Thompson (affiliates Ameriprise, Oppenheimer Funds, Fidelity Funds)
  
• Conception to Delivery: Understanding Our Fertility, with Dr. Rani Abassi and Claudia Booker
  
• How do we do it? Choice Moms Share Tricks of the Trade, group discussion with Mikki Morrissette, Jessica Lenz, Clair Sassin (dating as a single mom, answering daddy questions, using known donors, single-parent logistics and more)
  
• Conversation circles:
  #1 - Adoption Options, led by Micah Salb
  #2 - Mixed Emotions: Coping with Loss, Anger, Grief, led by Bill Petok
  #3 - Juggling the Work and Home Balance, led by Clair Sassin
  #4 - Choosing the Right Donor and Sperm Bank, led by Jessica Lenz and Suzanne Seitz, Fairfax Cryobank
  #5 - Open Session

Sponsors
CHOICE GOLD: Rebecca Hall & Associates, a Private Wealth Advisory Practice, Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.
CHOICE GOLD: Dr. Rafat Abbasi, Columbia Fertility Associates
CHOICE SILVER: Claudia Booker, CD (DONA) (ICTC), CCCE, LLLI BPC and BPCPA, Founder
Birthing Hands DC
CHOICE SILVER: California Cryobank
CHOICE BRONZE: The Sperm Bank of California
CHOICE BRONZE: Fairfax Cryobank

Space for only 5 more registrants. Don't delay!

We're sorry that we cannot offer childcare at this event. In past events, few women took advantage of it compared to the cost. The exception, however, is that a mother with a child under the age of one is welcome to bring her baby with her.

Pre-registration required here. Fee for attendance is $45. Ask about scholarship options.

Any questions, ask here.