Childbirth educator teaching birth preparation with a pelvis model at a mom'z retreat
About us

The People Behind Your Solo Babymoon

The people who created your retreat, those who look after you, and the midwives quietly on call.

Nearly 1000 women since 2023
Monthly retreats, 10 to 15 women
Weeks 14 to 34
★★★★★ 5.0 from every participant

An Intentional Pause for What Matters Most

Pregnancy prepares everything for the baby and almost nothing for the woman having it.

Time to slow down before everything changes, and to meet your baby a little earlier, in the quiet.

Nearly 1000 women have come since 2023. Every one of them has rated the retreat five stars.

Shirin Fardi, Founder
Pregnant women raising a toast around the dinner table at a mom'z retreat
Shirin Fardi and Amber Sawyer, mom'z retreat leaders

Certified Childbirth Educators Lead Every Retreat

Shirin Fardi
Founder and retreat leader

You prepare for birth with Shirin, a certified childbirth educator who has taught hundreds of pregnant women since 2023. She also teaches prenatal yoga and mindfulness, and is an MBSR instructor.

She leads many retreats herself. First-time and second-time mothers have joined her classes in almost equal measure, so there's room for what you already know and what you want to learn.

Shirin on LinkedIn
Amber Sawyer, PhD
Retreat leader

With Amber, you prepare for birth alongside a childbirth educator and birth doula who also has a PhD in biomedical engineering.

Her twenty-five years of yoga and meditation practice inform another part of her work: training prenatal and postpartum yoga teachers (E-RYT 500). Now based in Mallorca, she brings a background in Singapore and the US.

A Specialist for Every Part of Your Stay

Your stay begins with a conversation, and each of these people looks after a part of it.

Shirin Fardi
Shirin Fardi
Founder and retreat leader

Shirin is a mother of two who grew up between Germany and Iran and now lives in Spain. She leads many retreats herself, guiding your birth preparation and teaching prenatal yoga and mindfulness during your stay.

Amber Sawyer, PhD
Amber Sawyer, PhD
Retreat leader

Amber brings twenty-five years of yoga and meditation practice to her work as a childbirth educator and birth doula. When she leads your retreat, you prepare for birth with someone who also trains prenatal and postpartum yoga teachers.

Maria Anikeeva
Maria Anikeeva
Marketing and experience lead

Maria looks after the mom'z community you're joining and everything you see from us online. A creative director and marketing manager, she's lived in Russia, the US and Spain, and is now based in Madrid.

Debra Rissmann
Debra Rissmann
Guest onboarding concierge

Your first conversation is probably with Debra. Australian, with decades in hospitality, she helps you choose your dates and room, and answers your questions before you arrive. Your stay begins with someone getting to know what you need.

Serena Parayre
Serena Parayre
Experience coordinator

Serena looks after your stay from arrival to departure, so you can settle in. An experienced event manager and certified travel advisor, she's originally from the UK, based in Madrid, and fluent in Spanish and French.

Rocío Beltrá
Rocío Beltrá
Admin coordinator

Rocío keeps the logistics running so they don't land on you. Based in Alicante, she's a leisure and travel consultant with a background in tourism management, and experience in both Spain and Australia.

Bahman Nedaei
Bahman Nedaei
Co-founder

Bahman co-founded mom'z and looks after strategy and growth, drawing on two decades building consumer businesses in Germany and the UK. Mostly, he's here as a father who thinks mothers deserve better.

Holly Niemela
Holly Niemela
Early advisor and supporter

Holly is a wellness practitioner based in France, where her work includes teaching yoga and meditation. She is also a co-founder of Tinhela610, a wilderness retreat centre in Portugal, and has advised mom'z in the early days.

Pregnant woman at the pool at sunset during a mom'z retreat in Europe

Expert Pregnancy Care, Quietly Built In

It should feel like the best holiday of your pregnancy. Everything underneath it was built with clinicians.

Built With Clinicians

Midwives, childbirth educators and OB-GYNs from the UK, Germany, France and Spain created the whole programme. A pregnancy-nutrition specialist designed the menu.

Certified Birth Workers

Your retreat is led by trained childbirth educators who stay throughout and understand pregnancy, birth and the months after.

Midwives on Call

Four consulting midwives take turns being on call, 24 hours a day throughout your retreat, if anything comes up.

Estates Chosen With Care

Your private estate is chosen for its beauty and quiet, within 30 minutes of a clinic specialising in prenatal care.

Four Midwives on Call Day and Night

Four experienced midwives take turns being reachable, day and night, throughout every retreat. They're on call, although you may never need them. But it's good to know they're there.

Red Miller, midwife
Red Miller
Professional midwife, author and craniosacral therapist (BCST)
Cristina Garrido
Cristina Garrido
UK NHS midwife and birth educator, working between the UK and Spain
Roya Fakhrabadi
Roya Fakhrabadi
Senior midwife and UNICEF ambassador, Germany
Jessica Hoelscher, midwife
Jessica Hoelscher
Certified midwife, Germany and Spain

Booked by Midwives and OB-GYNs for Their Own Pregnancies

Midwives, obstetricians, doulas and prenatal fitness instructors have each chosen mom'z for their own pregnancies. They came as guests, paying the standard rate. It's the compliment we're proudest of.

Charlotte R., midwife, UK
“You couldn't get better antenatal classes than this. As a trained midwife, I thought I didn't have much to gain from these sessions, but I was wrong.”
Charlotte R.
Midwife, UK
Nina P., OB-GYN (MD)
“I wish more of my patients had access to this.”
Nina P.
OB-GYN (MD)
Riya P., pre- and postnatal Pilates instructor, UK
“An experience of a lifetime that I got to share with my baby.”
Riya P.
Pre- and postnatal Pilates instructor, UK
→ Read the reviews
What we believe

Mothers are made in radiance, not exhaustion.

Everything at mom'z begins with this belief.
Your retreat is a few days in which you are

nourished instead of depleted
confident instead of anxious
held instead of alone
deeply connected to yourself and your baby
honoured in this threshold, not rushed through it
→ Read the mom'z manifesto

Two Private Estates in Spain and Portugal

Two private estates, one near Barcelona and one near Lisbon. You have the whole place to yourselves for the four nights, and a clinic specialising in prenatal care is always a short drive away.

The estate near Barcelona where mom'z pregnancy retreats are held
Near Barcelona

A stone estate in the hills outside the city, with old trees, wide terraces and a pool that looks down the valley.

The Japanese garden and natural swimming pond at the mom'z retreat quinta near Lisbon
Near Lisbon

A quinta in the countryside, with a Japanese garden, a natural swimming pond and pine woods around it.

→ See both estates

Five Minutes Inside a Retreat With Shirin

Five minutes with Shirin, filmed at the estate near Barcelona.

Pregnant woman in a Mediterranean courtyard garden at a mom'z retreat

How to Join a Retreat

If this feels like the kind of time you'd love with your baby, we'd love to welcome you.

Your personal info pack includes dates, rates and the agenda. And a real person is here to answer your questions.

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