How Golden Gate Mothers‘ Group helps make SF family

When Connie Lin became chair of the Golden Gate Mothers Group in late 2020, The City was deeply entrenched in the global pandemic.

Baby showers and play dates had been scrapped by social-distancing requirements and replaced by meetings over Zoom. In San Francisco, public schools shuttered for more than a year , and many hospitals instituted a limit of one adult visitor for each patient in labor-and-delivery rooms, leaving mothers to navigate a new normal with limited resources as they braced for the life-changing event of motherhood.

But Lin and the all-volunteer-run group saw an opportunity in online connection.

“GGMG’s strength lies in our dual approach: fostering deep, in-person connections while providing an always-on digital lifeline,” said Lin, who had previously served as vic