Resources for the Holistic Mama
It’s overwhelming to sort through infinite resources. Here are some of my favs for pregnancy and postpartum.
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Birth Network of Santa Cruz County
Nursing Mothers Counsel Free Breastfeeding support
WIC Santa Cruz County Free Food
Free Fresh Food Box for Low Income
Santa Cruz Field Nursing come to you!
Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy with Alex Beaudoin
Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy with Jenny Putt
Alliance Physical Therapy for Pelvic Floor Health (Takes Medi-Cal)
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Partners often like to be as helpful to you as they can during your postpartum. At the same time, they go through their own postpartum transformation with challenges, aspirations, and needs. Here are some resources for them:
The Birth Partner: Everything You Need to Know to Help a Woman Through Childbirth
Free Dad’s Group at the Circle Family Center in Aptos (In person and Zoom options).
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BIRTHING FROM WITHIN
Offers parents engaging and memorable ways to activate personal, social, and spiritual resources for coping with labor and childbirth. It provides techniques for coping with labor pain without drugs and discusses the roles of both the mother and the father during the process.INA MAY’S GUIDE TO CHILDBIRTH and SPIRITUAL MIDWIFERY
Is filled with inspiring birth stories and practical advice. It covers topics such as reducing the pain of labor without drugs, the role of touch and movement, what really happens during labor, and even orgasmic birth experiences.
REAL FOOD FOR PREGNANCY
by Lily Nichols
This guide details the benefits of prioritizing nutrient-rich real foods for the health of baby, mother, pregnancy and postpartum. It includes a postpartum section, breastfeeding support with food intake, as well as a few recipes.THE FIRST 40 DAYS
Focuses on the importance of the first forty days after childbirth, emphasizing postpartum care and nourishment for new mothers. The book serves as a practical guide filled with comforting recipes and heartfelt wisdom, making it an essential read for new mothers.THE NURTURE REVOLUTION
by Greer Kirshenbaum
Research in neuroscience and parenting come together in this groundbreaking book, bringing to light new realizations about the power of nurture for our children's mental and physical health.THE WOMANLY ART OF BREASTFEEDING
This ultimate breastfeeding support resource offers:Real-parent wisdom on breastfeeding comfortably – from avoiding soreness to simply enjoying the connection with your baby.
Simplified insights into approaches for latching and attaching.
The ages and stages of a nursing relationship.
Reassuring information on nursing after a C-section or delivery complications.
Strategies for breastfeeding, for a few days to a few years.
Scientific data demonstrating the importance of breastfeeding to lifelong health.
Helpful tips for building your support network.
Nursing special-needs, premies, multiples, and adopted babies – and how to thrive no matter what curveball life throws.
Guidance on knowing if your baby is getting enough milk, increasing your supply, sleep, day care, solids, colic, food allergies, medications, and more.
“Tech support” help for sudden problems like engorgement, jaundice, plugged ducts, and much more.
Answers to the most-asked questions and to questions you didn’t know you had.
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