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Parenting Resources and Support Services

Parenting is one of the most challenging jobs we will ever have. It is also the most important. We often do this job without the support of community or family. This takes its toll on our health and makes parenting much less enjoyable. I often tell parents that they must create their own support network. There are so many wonderful resources that support families during the childbearing years. Providers can also help parents access the resources they need.

Looking for professional resources? Find them here.

See alphabetical listings for parenting and professional support services below. Be sure to let them know BirthLink sent you!

"In the end, nothing we do or say in this lifetime will matter as much as the way we have loved one another."
- Daphne Rose

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  • American Association of Birth Centers

    Perkiomenville, PA
    215-234-8068
    www.birthcenters.org/default.aspx
    aabc@birthcenters.org
    Area Served: National

    Our nation’s most comprehensive resource on free-standing birth centers, is a multi-disciplinary membership organization comprised of individuals and organizations who support the birth center concept. Resources for parents are avilable.

  • American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM)

    Silver Spring, ND
    240-485-1800 main, 240-485-1824 membership
    www.midwife.org/
    info@midwife.org
    Area Served: National

    Professional association for CNMs, also locator service on web site for parents.

  • David Arrell

    Welcome to Fatherhood
    Colorado Springs, CO
    No Phone
    www.welcometofatherhood.com/about
    david@welcometofatherhood.com
    Area Served: National

    I wrote a book to help out guys just like you. Guys who want to be an awesome supportive teammate for their pregnant partner, an awesome Dad for their new little baby, and are smart enough to realize they could use a little help and guidance along the way. Offering workshops, consults and ongoing support.

  • Manda Aufochs Gillespie

    The Green Mama
    North America, Canada & US
    No Phone
    thegreenmama.com/
    Manda@thegreenmama.com
    Area Served: Chicago & Suburbs, International

    The Green Mama helps to grow greener families through consulting, classes, and inspiration. Worried about toxins in your nursery, daycare, or food? Want to live green and save green? Get answers and get inspired at our web site.

  • Breastfeed, Chicago!

    Chicago, IL
    https://breastfeedchicago.org/
    breastfeedchicago.wordpress.com/closed-mother-to-mother-facebook-group/
    info@breastfeedchicago.org
    Area Served: Online Programs

    Breastfeed Chicago is a non-profit organization dedicated to making Chicagoland the most breastfeeding-friendly city in the country. Through mother-to-mother support, resource connection, and institutional advocacy, we work to support moms in their choice to breastfeed.

  • Citizens for Midwifery

    Athens, GA
    No Phone
    cfmidwifery.org/index.aspx
    Area Served: National

    Promotes the Midwives Model of Care™ as the best care for pregnancy and birth. The only national consumer-based group. CfM works to provide information and resources that promote the local midwife, as well as midwives and midwifery care across the country!

  • Illinois Council of Certified Professional Midwives

    Chicago, IL
    No Phone
    www.illinoismidwives.com/
    Area Served: State of Illinois

    The Coalition for Illinois Midwifery seeks to ensure the availability of safe, licensed direct-entry midwifery services for families in the state of Illinois. We support the Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) credential as a basis for licensure.

  • Coalition for Improving Maternity Services

    Raleigh, NC
    No Phone
    www.motherfriendly.org/
    Area Served: National

    Coalition for Improving Maternity Services, Resources for promoting a wellness model of maternity care, Mother Friendly Childbirth Initiative™

  • DONA International

    Chicago, IL
    888-788-DONA (3662)
    www.dona.org/
    DONA@dona.org
    Area Served: International

    Doula certification, training & referrals. Great resources for parents considering hiring a birth or postpartum doula. The oldest, largest and most respected doula association in the world. Founded in 1992.

  • Family Focus Highland Park

    Highland Park, IL
    847-433-0377
    www.family-focus.org
    bobbie.hinden@family-focus.org
    Area Served: Chicago's North Suburbs

    A not-for-profit family support agency whose mission is to promote the well being of children from birth by supporting and strengthening their families in and with their community. Providing parent support, social and educational programs and child development activities since 1983.

  • Holistic Moms Network

    Caldwell, NJ
    (877) HOL-MOMS 465-6667
    www.holisticmoms.org/
    Area Served: National

    National, nonprofit organization for parents and others interested in natural living and holistic parenting. Helping parents build local communities to learn and support one another. Chapters across the US, including IL.

  • Infant Massage USA

    Nashua, NH
    978-225-0093
    www.infantmassageusa.org/
    info@infantmassageusa.org
    Area Served: National

    Infant Massage USA promotes nurturing touch through the training and certification of Parent Educators, and classes and one-to-one instruction for parents and full-time caregivers. List of providers.

  • International Cesaeran Awareness Network (ICAN)

    Alpine, NC
    800-686-ICAN (4226)
    www.ican-online.org/
    info@ican-online.org
    Area Served: International

    The International Cesarean Awareness Network is a non-profit organization whose mission is to improve maternal-child health by reducing preventable cesareans through education, supporting cesarean recovery, and advocating for vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC).

  • La Leche League International

    USA Based, World Wide
    800-525-3243 or 312-646-6260 Office Find a leader: 877-4 LA LECHE (452-5324)
    www.llli.org/
    info@LLL.org
    Area Served: International

    Locate a leader, meetings or get help with breastfeeding problems, quarterly magazine w/membership, conferences.

  • Lifespan Doulas

    Patty Brennan
    Ann Arbor, MI
    734-663-1523
    lifespandoulas.com
    support@lifespandoulas.com
    Area Served: Midwest Region, National, Online Programs

    Offers comprehensive birth, postpartum and end-of-life doula training and certification. Programs are a hybrid of self-paced and live, interactive learning, all online. Owner Patty Brennan is the author of The Doula Business Guide. She specializes in doula business development.

  • Midwifery Today

    Eugene, OR
    541-344-7438
    midwiferytoday.com/
    inquiries@midwiferytoday.com
    Area Served: International

    Information on pregnancy, natural birth, homebirth, midwifery, breastfeeding and other natural-parenting topics. Publishes books, e-books and a quarterly print magazine, Midwifery Today. Offers a free e-mail newsletter and free articles online. Holds 2–3 conferences each year.

  • Midwives Alliance of North America – MANA

    Montvale, NJ
    844-626-2674
    mana.org/
    Area Served: National

    A professional organization for midwives founded in 1982. Striving to unify and strengthen the profession of midwifery, thereby improving the quality of health care for women, babies, and communities. Referrals for out of hospital US midwives. Resource for parents wanting to learn more about the midwifery model and how midwives practice.

  • Neighborhood Parent’s Network – NPN

    Chicago, IL
    312-476-9351
    www.npnparents.org/
    Area Served: Chicago & Suburbs

    NPN is a non-profit 501(c)3 that connects a diverse community of families with the resources they need to navigate parenting in the city. Whether online or in person, NPN makes it easy to find support, must-have information and amazing city events.

  • New Moms – Chicago & Oak Park

    Chicago, IL
    773-252-3253
    newmoms.org/parenthesis/
    contact@newmoms.org
    Area Served: Chicago & Suburbs

    Offering comprehensive services, serving young moms and their children in Chicago for 35 years. With the same location (former Parenthesis location), continued programming, and expanded housing plans in Oak Park, Committed to seeing existing services continue in Oak Park and suburbs.

  • North American Registry of Midwifes – NARM

    Lilburn, CA
    888-84-BIRTH, 888-842-4784
    narm.org/
    info@narm.org
    Area Served: National

    Supporting a health care system where every family in North America has access to skilled and responsible midwives. Setting standards for competency based certification, allowing midwives to support a woman’s right to choose her birth attendants and place of birth.

  • Water Birth International

    Barbara Harper RN CLD CCCE
    Boca Raton, FL
    954-821-9125
    waterbirth.org/
    info@waterbirth.org
    Area Served: International

    Waterbirth International provides educational workshops and lecture for parents and providers throughout the world and online; consultants for hospital integration of waterbirth; personalized referral services.

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