What if you could meet your "mom friends" before the baby even arrives? This week we sit down with Georgia Kastaris and Monica Oslander, the founders behind Expecting Together a prenatal education and social club bringing the European model of built-in pregnancy community to the US.

Georgia discovered this concept while living in the UK, where matching expecting couples by due date and zip code is basically a rite of passage. Now she and Monica (a registered dietitian) are bringing it to Chicago and Miami pairing 8-12 couples going through pregnancy at the same time with real nurses and nurse practitioners, so families build their village before the chaos of a newborn hits.

We talk clinician-led education vs. Dr. TikTok, why partner inclusion matters, the loneliness epidemic among new parents, and what it's really like building a venture-backed startup while raising toddlers.

🎧 Chapters:
00:00 – Welcome back to From 9 to Mom
01:42 – Georgia's UK story & discovering the prenatal social club model
05:23 – Bringing the concept to the US & meeting Monica
09:00 – How Monica got pulled in (and never let go)
12:58 – What families were missing the research behind the curriculum
15:19 – Why clinician-led matters more than doulas or influencers
20:09 – How matching & the program actually works
23:44 – Why partner inclusion is core to the model
25:34 – Scaling a business while raising toddlers
31:57 – The hardest parts of entrepreneurial motherhood
38:22 – What's next: Miami launch, virtual cohorts & new cities
41:26 – Final thoughts + where to find them

💛 Learn more or find a group near you: https://expectingtogether.com/
📱 Follow Expecting Together on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/expecting.together/