Bellies Abroad

About Bellies Abroad

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Bellies Abroad understands the challenges of becoming a family away from your own. Our goal is to provide you with the best support and information possible so that you can make the best decisions for your family and feel “at home”. We do this through our three pillared approach of offering contact with carefully selected […]

Founding Mama Jennie

Born and raised in Sweden Jennie early felt like she didn’t exactly fit into the Swedish way of living. As soon as she finished college she was in a hurry to travel the world and left to backpack around East Asia the year she turned 20. One country she really fell in love with was […]

Founding Mama Kiersten

Kiersten is a born and raised New Yorker and a Rome resident as of 2004. At the age of 15 she lived in an Athabascan Indian village in Alaska where she ate moose meat ice cream and attended a potlatch. At 16 she lived in Arles, France for a semester where she learned what real […]

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We give parents, and parents to be the confidence and information they need to have the birth and parenthood experiences they are looking for instead of what is easiest for hospital staff and most lucrative for medical professionals. Unlike many other pregnancy, birth, health and wellness resources that base information on cultural assumptions, Bellies Abroad […]

Seeking Health Care When You Don’t Speak the Language

Seeking health care in a country where you aren’t a native speaker of the language, can be daunting, we know, we have been there ourselves! In this very insightful article our amazing partner Lisa Ferland at knockedupabroad.com describes some of her hesitance at seeking medical treatment in a country where her mother tongue is not […]

The Post-birth Plan

By Olivia Pallenberg, Doula, Babywearing counselor If you’re expecting a child or have given birth recently you have probably heard of “ the birth plan”; a written plan that expecting women can write and ask their doctors and midwives to adhere to it. The birth plan discusses the labour, delivery and treatment of the baby […]

What is an Intervention?

By Evyan Donch
An Intervention introduces a person to the possibility of recovery and a happy life and the entire family support network to a life of health and well-being. No one need ever ‘hit bottom’ again before getting help.

How to Get Your Codice Fiscale

By Richard Greenbury
A resident or non-resident in Italy you will absolutely need this – not just for tax purposes as the name implies, but for just about anything – if you want to rent an apartment for over 30 days, open a bank account, set up a phone line or internet access, buy a phone card, register for a course, ANYTHING. So you would do well toget it as soon as possible.