To care for that growing bundle inside, you’re a vitamin-popping, yoga-posing fiend. Come 40 weeks, you hope the outside world delivers.

Push for a nurturing environment with Sally Steponkus Interiors, the local design firm that conjures glamorous, kid-friendly spaces. Spot-on advice from its pros includes wallpapering the nursery ceiling (great view from the crib), laminating kitchen-chair fabric (spill away, little monsters), and building a changing table in the closet (crouching toddler, hidden diapers).

In short, it balances your desire for a cool place with the needs of your baby.

So everyone has womb to grow.

Sally Steponkus Interiors (202-237-9872 or steponkus.com).

BALANCE
The Working Mothers Challenge: Improving Work-Life Integration
What: Local psychologist Hope Hanner-Bailey hosts a workshop to help you get it together.
Why: Get the job done.
When: Tues., 7-9 p.m.
Where: Parenting Playgroups, 6161 Fuller Ct., Alexandria. Tickets online at eventbrite.com.

HEAR
Tales of the Lincoln
What: Celebrate Abe’s birthday with Jon Spelman’s stories for the whole family.
Why: It’s a presidential idea.
When: Mon. & Sat., 10:30 a.m.
Where: Ford’s Theatre, 511 10th St. NW, b/t E & F Sts. (202-347-4833). Tickets online at ticketmaster.com.

EAT
The Reef Family Happy Hour
What: Kids bust a move on the dance floor, look at huge aquariums, chalk the walls, and nibble mac ’n’ cheese and ants on a log.
Why: Parents get $1 off drinks and apps.
When: Every Fri., 5-8 p.m.
Where: 2446 18th St. NW, b/t Columbia & Belmont Rds. (202-518-3800).

Photo: Courtesy of Angie Seckinger