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with special needs to camp benefit the whole family?

Camp High Hopes provides yearround programs and respite care that positively impacts the family.

Benefits to campers: While at camp, campers learn new skills, challenge limitations, gain independence, overcome fears, and build self-esteem through adaptive, therapeutic recreational activities.

Benefits to caregivers: When your child attends camp, you get a break. Your child is having fun and is well taken care of, so you can focus on work, recharge, or spend time with others.

Benefits to families: You and your child will meet others facing similar challenges. Expanding your social circle improves physical and mental health.

Certified Educator of Infant

What is a baby spa?

While you can find baby spas throughout Canada, Australia, and Europe, the concept is still quite new in the United States. In fact, there are currently only four in the nation, and one of them is right here in Sioux Falls!

Baby spas provide tools to help you navigate the first year and a half of your baby’s life. Services include infant massage classes, water movement, and other important parent and caregiver education. These tools are known to help with common issues such as gas, colic, and constipation. They are also great ways to help with bonding between the baby and parent, baby’s sleep and appetite, and simply help your baby to relax.

Stephany Kay Owner / Photographer

What to know when booking a Motherhood Bundle?

When you have a baby, especially a first-born, you have no idea what to expect but know you want to capture every moment. It seems like just yesterday that my son came into the world, and now he’s a little man and a few years from graduating high school. Because of this, I know how important it is to capture those first precious moments for new families because they’re grown in a blink of an eye!

We’ll kickstart our journey with a maternity session, then capture baby’s fresh features with a lifestyle newborn session, and finally plan a family session highlighting your new addition within the first 12 months.

5804 Correctionville Rd

Sioux City, IA 51106 www.camphighhopes.com

712-224-2267 smorgan@camphighhopes.com

2309 West Trevi Place Sioux Falls, SD 57108 www.yournurturedbaby.com

605-929-3688 info@yournurturedbaby.com

122 S. Phillips Avenue, Suite 240 Sioux Falls, SD 57104 www.skayphotography.com

605-595-4189 stephany@skayphotography.com