Becoming a mom can be a lot to handle. Care Ring’s Nurse-Family Partnership is here to help you on your journey. With your very own free personal nurse, you will get the support, advice, and information you need not only during your pregnancy, but also in that critical "new mom" phase after your baby is born.

PSI disseminates information and resources through its volunteer coordinators, website, and annual conference. Its goal is to provide current information, resources, and education and to advocate for further research and legislation to support perinatal mental health.

The experience of having a baby in the NICU can be frightening, isolating, and overwhelming. Here are a few resources that parents with a baby in the NICU or who have already returned home, may find helpful:

Graham's Foundation
Hand to Hold
NICU Helping Hands
NICU Parent Network
The NICU Dad
Peek a Boo ICU

Occurring in both pregnant and postpartum women, preeclampsia is a complication of pregnancy that is characterized by high blood pressure. There are also other maternal health complications of pregnancy and delivery that can be more long-term and leave parents with unresolved feelings of anxiety or sadness.

Provide Resources in:
Helpful Medical Information Resources
Emotional Support Resources

Having support to navigate this unique period can be extremely helpful. Postpartum Support International has specialized support resources for fertility challenges.

Resources:
Resolve: The National Infertility Association
Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART)
American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM)
Fertility IQ
Fertility Out Loud
Fertility for Colored Girls

Queen City (QC) Cocoa B.E.A.N.S. serves to build a supportive, informed and empowered community
for families in Charlotte and surrounding areas. Women of color and their families are encouraged to embrace good nutrition and breastfeeding as a cultural and social norm through Breastfeeding Education, Advocacy, Normalcy and Support (B.E.A.N.S.)

Providing support to moms and new families whatever their journey to parenthood looks like.

Milked Lactation Services, LLC provides expert lactation support and education services for all families with an approachable, compassionate and empowering approach to help you meet your goals and find satisfaction in the journey.

The Authentic Nest is proud to facilitate Learn With Less® family enrichment groups during which caregivers have a unique opportunity to observe their child’s play in a thoughtfully prepared environment. Our play-based groups use play, talk, sing, and move as the framework to support all areas of your child’s development. These weekly classes are a safe, warm, and inclusive space for caregivers to share their struggles and celebrate their successes. You can put your mind to rest knowing all enrichment groups are led by a licensed parent educator with a professional background in early child development. Does this sound interesting? Let The Authentic Nest support you on your unique parenting journey with a weekly opportunity to learn, connect, engage, observe, and socialize. One-on-one parent consultations are also available.
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Harmony Nutrition & Lactation, LLC seeks to educate and empower new and expectant parents of color to embrace good nutrition and breastfeeding as they thrive and adjust to their new norm. After working in a variety of settings for many years, Rachel noticed gaps in service for a number of families, but especially families of color. It was then that her passion for decreasing racial/ethnic health disparities and achieving health equity among all people emerged. After seeing an immense need, she wanted to create a space where the health of families of color was being addressed intentionally. Rachel makes every effort to build a supportive, informed and overall happier and healthier community through education, outreach, and support. Rachel offers preconception, prenatal, postpartum, infant, and preschool nutrition counseling as these are critical times in both a woman and a child’s life in determining health outcomes and developing habits. Rachel provides individualized care to each client and offers materials and tools to assist them in achieving their goals. She conducts one-on-one consultations and also has packages available for additional follow-up assessments. Rachel’s overall goal is to assist families of color in achieving more positive outcomes through early nutritional guidance, support, and education around relationships between food and health and to empower them to make the best possible nutrition and lifestyle-related decisions for their children and themselves. She is ready to help you reach your unique goals and believes it is so rewarding to see people get excited about taking charge of their own health!