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.)

Queen City Pelvic PT is committed to helping women and families physically prepare for pregnancy and birthing as well as postpartum recovery. We can adress issues that may arise with the perinatal experience, including but not limited to, incontinence, pelvic pain, pain with intercourse, scar management, prolapse, diastasis recti, and safe and appropriate exercise through all stages.

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!

Tranquility Pelvic Health offers in-home or virtual pelvic floor physical therapy appointments and birth doula services. We believe that you deserve to feel safe and empowered during pregnancy AND postpartum. That is why we offer to treat you in your home, assisting in treating any pelvic floor symptoms that may have started during pregnancy or postpartum to help you return to the activities you love.

My name is Rebecca Duerr (pronounced DO-err). I am the founder of Mindful Family Wellness, Certified Labor Doula, Postpartum Doula, Certified HypnoBirthing® Childbirth Educator, a North Carolina Licensed Nutritionist, Certified Nutrition Specialist, and Certified Placenta Arts Specialist. I live just north of Charlotte, NC, in the Lake Norman area with my husband, 4 daughters, and lots of fur babies. As a doula and nutritionist whose practice serves the Charlotte and Lake Norman areas of North Carolina, I support birthing people improve their overall health, birth outcome, and mental wellness through the experiences of pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. I use such tools and services as childbirth education classes, doula support through pregnancy, labor/birth and postpartum, as well as nutritional guidance and education for both mother and baby. Providing these services has been shown to increase positive birth outcomes, reduce cesarean section births, reduce postpartum mental disorders such as postpartum depression/anxiety (PPD/A) and postpartum post-traumatic stress disorder, (PPTSD) increase breast/chest-feeding success and duration, and strengthen the holistic health of both parent and child. As you can see, I offer a number of different services. As a NC Licensed Nutritionist, I provide integrative and functional nutrition counseling for the entire family. I also provide doula support, including pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. I am a Hypnobirthing® childbirth educator and have new classes starting monthly. The beauty of providing these services is that I can help you in one area or in many. I can see you or your family for nutritional guidance. I can see you for pregnancy and birth support, as a doula. Or we can combine these services. The possibilities are endless. Please take a look around my website and reach out to me with any questions you might have or to set up a session or consultation. I look forward to hearing from you! ​ Rebecca has a Master's of Science in Nutrition and Integrative Health, from the Maryland University of Integrative Health (MS). She is a North Carolina Licensed Nutritionist (LN) through the North Carolina Board of Dietetics and Nutrition and a Board Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS). She is also a CAPPA certified labor doula (CLD), APPA certified Placenta Arts Specialist (APPA-C) and HypnoBirthing® Certified Childbirth Educator (HBCBE). Along with her birth and nutrition credentials, Rebecca also has an MA in Art Education from Florida International University, and was an art teacher for many years in the Miami/Dade School System in South Florida.

I am a private practice therapist and my primary interest and training is in helping mothers overcome and move forward from the consequences of a traumatic birth