Maternity Abroad Guidebooks Featured at Dublin’s IV Perinatal Symposium!

Written By Jessica Gabrielzyk
Picture sent by organiser of the books Maternity Abroad

Picture the organiser sent me of the books ready to be distributed to the attendees.

I’m thrilled to share that the Maternity Abroad: Becoming a Mother in a Foreign Land guidebooks are now in Dublin, ready for attendees of the IV Perinatal Symposium this Saturday, 25/01!

This incredible event, hosted by the Gestaire Group, is all about empowering moms-to-be as they prepare for their first postpartum week. Highlights include expert sessions with a local expat doula, pelvic floor physiotherapist, breastfeeding consultant, and perinatal psychologist.

Although I won’t be attending in person, I’m honored that Maternity Abroad will be part of this special day. The guidebooks will be distributed to attendees, providing invaluable advice for navigating motherhood—especially for expat moms adapting to life in a new country.

If you’re attending, I hope you find the guidebook an inspiring and practical resource to support your postpartum journey. To learn more about Maternity Abroador stay tuned for updates!

Jessica Gabrielzyk

Jessica Gabrielzyk is a Brazilian writer living in Switzerland. She moved there with her husband and daughter, who was three months old at the time and had strong opinions about the whole thing even then.

She writes about change.

The visible kind and the kind that happens inside a person, while everything on the outside looks fine.

Her first book, Maternity Abroad, explored what it means to become a mother far from the system you trusted. It has reached readers in more than fifteen countries across five continents. Parenting Unpacked, her second book, follows the experience of parenting through major life disruption, whether that's an international move, a career loss, a new baby, or a life that simply stops responding the way it used to. My First American Coloring Book was created to help toddlers engage with daily life in the United States through play and familiar imagery.

She is a member of SIETAR, the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research, and the International Academy of Brazilian Literature.

She writes for the parent who is still inside it, getting through the day, and wondering somewhere underneath all of it who they are becoming.

When she is not writing, she is walking forty minutes uphill with a stroller, telling herself the exercise is the point.

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