ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Cara Hewitt moved to Alexandria’s North Ridge neighborhood after seven years in Washington, had her daughter in 2022, and found herself isolated.
Friends back home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, were posting about a postpartum program they were attending together. Hewitt wanted the same thing here and couldn’t find it.
Last summer, a neighbor down the street had her second baby a month after Hewitt had hers. The two spent their maternity leaves talking about the same gap…