On September 26th, Pampers and the maternal health nonprofit 4Kira4Moms filled The Fig House in Highland Park, Los Angeles, with something you don't usually picture at a baby shower: doulas, midwives, lactation consultants, and pharmacists, all in one room. The event, called "Pampered with Love," gave thirty expecting families a year's supply of diapers, a $100 Walmart gift card, complimentary spa massages, and — maybe most meaningfully — one-on-one time with the people who actually know what the next few months will ask of them.
4Kira4Moms founder Charles Johnson, who started the organization after losing his wife Kira to a preventable pregnancy complication, said it best: "Every mother deserves to be heard, and every family deserves a village." Pampers' Sydney Gagne added, "Every baby deserves our best, and we're committed to giving families and babies our support and care from day one." Together, the two organizations have now reached more than 3,000 families through moments exactly like this one.
The Village You Can't Always Fit in One Room
Here's the thing about a village, though: it's rarely all in one place at the same time. For every family who got to walk through The Fig House that Saturday, there's a grandmother two states away, a best friend working a shift she couldn't trade, a doula who's part of the story but never makes it into the photo. The people who show up for a new baby aren't always the people who get to be in the room for the moment that matters most — the first time you see your baby on that ultrasound screen.
That's the gap we built EchoGlow and EchoPortrait to close. EchoGlow turns that first image into a softly lit keepsake that can sit on a nursery shelf in one house and a mantel in another — something a grandparent gets to keep, not just see once on a phone screen. EchoPortrait sculpts that same image into a relief you can actually run your fingers over, small enough to mail to a doula, a midwife, or the friend who couldn't make the shower but has been there for every appointment since.
Not every member of your village can be in the room. But the moment can still reach them — and it deserves to. If your village stretches further than your living room, we'd be glad to help you bring them in.