Located On South Virginia Street there’s a unique store with classes called Biggest Little Baby which also calls itself “one of Reno's most loved sources of community support circles.”
The care center offers various resources for people in the community who are looking to be parents or are expecting. It can even help family members of those expecting. For one of the owners, Sarah Walton, it is important to serve the underprivileged community members in this stage of their lives as well.
“I want people to have an open mind that this time in our lives isn’t something that should be in a compartment of its own it needs to be something that is integrated into our lives and our communities and into how we show up for one another and that is everyone's responsibility not just people who are childbearing,” Walton said during a recent interview.
A section in the store filled with books is available for checkout to community members.
Biggest Little Baby is a store that sells any sort of imaginable baby product from diapers to maternity clothes. They also have a few items that can be checked out such as books from a section that covers subjects from fertility to difficult toddlers.
Even if someone happens to not find what they're looking for Biggest Little Baby is equipped with tons of resources around the city. They are constantly growing and adding things to their organization such as in the future they hope to be a safe place drop off.
“I have never been in a space that had so much feminine drive and feminine energy,” Walton said. “It's not what I have been drawn to in the past and so it's been a cool place to see shift.”
The store open seven days a week also hosts fitness and support classes.
A whiteboard hung up in the store space of Biggest Little Baby detailing the various support circles and other activities happening there during the month.
Biggest Little Baby is also always hosting a variety of events such as story time for children or a variety of circles for Moms. Some of the examples of circles they have are circles that provide support for young parents or parents who have lost a child. “A lot of people know that they're welcome whether there's a baby in their belly or not,” says Walton. These circles are led by people who have gone through these experiences.
They also sometimes have donation drives. One of their most recent ones, in collaboration with Black Wall Street Reno, was a community diaper drive.
Sarah Walton poses with diaper donations for the drive in collaboration with Black Wall Street Reno.
Inside Biggest Little Baby is also Bright Heart Birth Services. They more specifically help with birth and postpartum. They have a few doulas and their services also extend to things such as placenta encapsulation or other keepsakes.
For all the staff alike it's always a pleasure to see people of all sorts come in, young, old, or queer, as well as sometimes get to watch the children of community members who frequent Biggest Little Baby, grow up.
“I really encourage people to come down here and get a little tour whether they are in a child bearing stage or not because there's a good chance that they know somebody who is,” Walton concluded at the end of our own tour.