family friendliness all around
Find diaper changing areas, cozy feeding spaces, play areas and kids’ menus when you need them.
what was once a paper map is now an app!
20 years ago my first daughter was 2 years old. I was newish to Canada, and even newer to East Vancouver, and was thrilled at the abundance of new parent and baby programs available during a time of such personal and emotional flux. I made it my mission to get the word out through a print map, window decals for family-friendly businesses and a website. Mommy Map was born, and even thrived.
Here we are two decades later. Paper maps are mostly the things of fairytales, parenting has gotten way hipper, and conversations have gotten way more honest and nuanced about times of flux and family roles and dynamics. The word “Mommy”, in fact, is even somewhat outmoded. Yet here I tread, embarking in Mommy Map’s reboot as an app.
babies are not virtual
Even as so much of life has shifted online (especially after CoVid), it seems deeply important, if not more so, to highlight real world spaces that receive and nourish us (as any type of human with baby in tow) through with the four mainstays of family-friendliness: diaper changing areas, cozy feeding areas, play areas and kids’ menus. As far as I can foretell, the very real world dilemma of a full diaper will not ever be solved by AI, and nor will a baby’s preference for quiet whilst feeding.
I now split my life between Vancouver and Santa Fe, NM, and for this reason you will see these two places as my starting locales. I look forward to expanding to include more cities soon, especially the ones that seem the least family-friendly because these, of course, can feel the most daunting and isolating for the parents of new babies.
