If you’re in a crisis, you may find helplines, local IBCLCs, and resources for abused women and teen pregnancy and parenting on this page.
Are you unsure if you have a perinatal mood & anxiety disorder? Take the Edinburgh self assessment online and if you determine you may have a mood disorder, visit PsychologyToday.com to find a therapist and/or psychiatric provider near you. Also consider Postpartum Support International, which has groups for moms and dads facing perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.
where to meet other PARENTs in West Palm Beach & Palm Beach
Stroller Strides fitness class at City Place, WPB Mondays 9:30am
Stroller Strides at Mandel Library, WPB Fridays 11-11:45am
Four Arts Children’s Library Programs in Palm Beach
Baby Story Time at Mandel Library, WPB Fridays 10-10:45am
Mommy & Me at Mandel Recreation Center in Palm Beach, plus Seaview Park playground
Splashpads on hot days at the Palm Beach Zoo, City Place, and South Olive Park
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The Pregnant Person’s Bill of Rights
This document clearly and succinctly lists your rights as a birthing person. If birthing at a hospital, you can ask staff there for a copy of the patient rights specific to the hospital, too. I highly recommend bringing printed copies of your rights to prenatal appointments and to your birth, and making sure your partner has reviewed it and knows to reference it when advocating for you.
How to birth if you don’t make it in time to the birth center or hospital:
- Get in a place that feels safe to you
- Breathe
- Listen to your intincts
- Place your hands near your bottom and birth
- Bring baby to your breast
- After the cord is white and not pulsing, you can cut the cord
- Keep baby skin to skin as much as possible
This video is the best way to become comfortable with what labor is really like. https://www.pennysimkin.com/project/three-rs-of-labor/
Amazing BirthRite Birth Stool Rental
Contact Jade Carrero at (859) 655-5632 or jadecarrero2000@gmail.com for details.
Breastfeeding Videos
How to attach your baby at the breast (& prevent nipple pain)
How to Hand Express Milk (this is an essential skill used to relieve engorgement, harvest colostrum, and shift towards weaning)
https://med.stanford.edu/newborns/professional-education/breastfeeding/hand-expressing-milk.html
How to Maximize Pumping Output
Website Recommendations
Evidence Based Birth – information to guide your choices for labor
National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers – for parents who want be informed about circumcison (also look for an article on circumcision from Evidence Based Birth when you click on the preceding link)
Intentional Birth has a wonderful programs for doulas as well as one of the best online childbirth education classes for parents (my opinion — unpaid)
CDC’s guide to introducing solid foods to your baby
Products for Pregnancy &/or Labor
Placenta Smoothie Instructions
When you give birth in the hospital, make sure your medical team knows someone will be bringing your placenta home. Have a person (partner, friend, family member) prepared to meet you at the hospital within 1 hour after giving birth. This person needs to have a cooler and a secure, leak proof container (needs to be at least 3/4 Gallon sized) which fits inside the cooler with extra room for ice. They can get ice from the hospital to place in the cooler upon arrival. At the hospital, the placenta can be placed into your container, in the cooler with ice, and then brought home. At home, the placenta can be cut into pieces that are approximately 1/2 Tablespoon in size. These placenta pieces then need to be stored in the freezer. To make a smoothie, add 3 of the placenta pieces into a blender with ingredients for your favorite smoothie. Your partner, friend, or family member can bring you smoothies during visiting hours at the hospital. You can continue to enjoy placenta smoothies when you are home.
GROcery & MEAL Services
Grocery delivery services: Instacart, Shipt, PrimeNow & Walmart+.
Meal delivery services: Grubhub, ASAP (delivery dudes), CateredFit, Ideal Nutrition Now, or Spoonful of Comfort
Other Services For Postpartum Families
4th Trimester Fitness Method classes online (and in person in some locations outside South FL)
scale rental to help nursing parents with babies who have slow weight gain
Products for New Families
Baby Carriers
Baby carrier for twins
User friendly carrier perfect for young babies
other baby gear
To Help with Gas & Colic
Healing Products for Moms
For breastfeeding dyads
This cheap tool or this slightly fancier tool collect extra milk on the side you’re not nursing on
Certified Breastfeeding Specialist, West Palm Beach, FL 