LEVEL 1: Foundational Understanding

  • CH 0: Begin Here

    Context and best practices.

    Start here to get the most out of this course.

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    CH 1: Our Foundation First

     Everything your child becomes is built on the foundation you two lay right now. You only get one chance to pour this foundation right.

    This chapter gives you the tools to set yourself up for success — before the chaos arrives. You will build the invisible architecture of your home together. The couples who do this work build a life of purpose — on purpose.

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    CH 2: The Language of Love

    In this season, your partner (and your soon-to-be-baby) isn't reachable by logic or reason. They require a different language.

    This chapter teaches you how to meet your partner exactly where they are so that connection, closeness, collaboration, and trust are at the heart of everything you two build together.

LEVEL 2: Regulate and Repair

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    CH 3: Come Back to Me

    What happens when you disappear in a fight — and the tools that bring you both back together, faster.

    This chapter gives you the full regulation toolkit: the breathing, the movement, the internal voice, the time-out protocol. Because you cannot show up for your partner or your baby from a regressed child state. You have to come back first. This chapter teaches you how — every time.

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    CH 4: The Gold Between Us

    Why you keep having the same fight — and what it’s trying to teach you before you can grow.

    You know a recurring argument is never really about what it seems to be. This chapter gives you the flashlight to shine on the blind spots. Then the recurring fight doesn't just get managed, but you gain the wisdom and leave the rest behind. Which equipes you to stay mor ein control, acting as someone living your personal values, and be a great role-model to your child.

  • CH 5: The Return

    How to repair, reconnect, and break the resentment cycle before it breaks you.

    Most couples end a fight and move on. The successful couples know how to go back and make it better. They repair — not by rehashing, but by tending to the wound and changing what the miss means in their partner's nervous system. This chapter gives you the three-step repair process and the tools that transform every rupture into an opportunity to deepen instead of erode.

LEVEL 3: The Whole Family

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    CH 6: What Baby Needs

    You are doing something enormous. Here is how to survive it — and give your baby everything they need.

    What you need and what your baby needs are not in competition. They are the same thing. The parent who tends to themselves is the parent who tends to their baby — and the shame of self-care dissolves completely once you understand this. This chapter gives you the tools necessary for the first year postpartum.

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    CH 7: The Operating System

    Don't go into postpartum blind. These are the conversations that save your family.

    This is the chapter that saves your relationship at 3am. The couples who figure it out in the dark — depleted, activated, resentful — are building on quicksand. This chapter builds the operating system before you need it. So two people walking into the newborn season are ready. When the hard moments come, you follow the agreement instead of fighting about it.

LEVEL 4: Honoring The Hidden

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    CH 8: Day-Mares

    The terrifying thing almost every new parent experiences — that they were totally unprepared for.

    You will leave set up to handle negative intrusive thoughts as a couple so they do not defeat mom in silence. This chapter explains the neuroscience, gives you the three-step protocol, and the partner agreement, so neither of you ever carries this alone again.

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    CH 9: For You, Dad

    What nobody is asking — and everything you need to say.

    This chapter exists because it needs to. Dad's inner life has never been given a stage. The not-being-chosen pain. The fear of being replaced. The identity shift with no language. The needs that have been swallowed so he can perform well. This chapter ensures Dad is not an afterthought in this family, but that he is an equal and essential part of its foundation.

  • CH 10: Touched

    You miss each other. Here is how to begin again.

    The final chapter goes where most relationship courses never do: into the body. Into touch. Into the physical intimacy that the postpartum season can make feel like a distant memory — and the pathway back to each other that neither shame nor exhaustion can permanently close.


Welcome to New Family Foundations.

The What, How, and Why This Course Is Different and Can Help You More Than Any Other Paid Offer Out there


You didn't come here by accident.

You came because you believe your relationship is worth fighting for. Because somewhere in you, you already know that the way your children watch you love each other will become the blueprint they carry into every relationship of their own. Because you understand — maybe more than most — that the family you build starts with the couple you protect.

That's why this exists. And that's why you're here.

Preventative Architecture


New Family Foundations was created because too many families lose each other in the season that's supposed to bring them together. Because postpartum doesn't just happen to a woman — it happens to a couple. And because the loneliness, the distance, the slow drift into silence… none of that is inevitable. It is preventable.

You made a decision that most people never make — to show up before the resentment builds. To choose connection before disconnection becomes the default. That decision changes everything. For you. For your partner. For your children.

Watch this course at your own pace. Come back to it. Share it with your partner. Share it with a pregnant friend, or a couple who's about to become parents, or a friend who's already in the thick of postpartum and could use a lifeline right now. The more families who find this, the better.

What This Course Is And How To Use It


I'm Coco McKenzi — Mom, Doula, Mentor, and Founder.

My work is birth preparation meets couples' relationship health, because I believe the two are inseparable. The way you enter parenthood shapes everything that comes after — your connection, your communication, your ability to feel like a team when the ground shifts beneath you.

My mission is to set up the next generation up for success. I, however, only work with 20 Bay Area families a year. So for everyone that I cannot work with in person, I make as much valuable content as possible, available for free.

This course is one of those things. More are coming.

Why This Is Free And A little About Me


If you watch this, find it useful, feel like my style resonates — and would like to have me support you through birth — I would love to connect. I only take on 20 families each year, and would be honored if yours was one of them.

Head to the Doula Services page and fill out the form there.

But most importantly, welcome to the beginning of your family's foundation. I'm so glad you're here and I hope you enjoy.

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