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How to Choose Your Provider & Get the Care and Support You Need
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How to Choose Your Provider & Get the Care and Support You Need

One of the first choices you need to make in your pregnancy is where to go for your prenatal care. And it’s an important choice!

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A Love Letter to Your Postpartum Body

Inspired by Jasmine and LaShanda's conversation in Birth Explained: The Beauty of Biology, here's a worksheet to help you give your body the 'thank you' it deserves. After all it has gone through and done for you and your baby, give it a little love!
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Affirmations for Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond

Print or share these words of encouragement so you can get a boost of confidence when you need it. The set includes blanks where you can write your own affirmations.
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Breathe In & Breathe Out: Wellness Tools During Pregnancy

These websites provide information on accessible tools for mindfulness and emotional wellbeing, as well as free resources to address life stressors during and after pregnancy.
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Choices for People Having a Cesarean Birth

Having a C-section can still include delayed cord clamping, skin-to-skin contact, and many other options you typically see with a vaginal birth.
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Explore Your Options with the B.R.A.I.N. Technique

B.R.A.I.N. is a useful technique that can help you weigh the pros and cons of any decision during pregnancy, birth, and beyond.
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Finding Affordable (or Free!) Doula Support

The priceless support doulas provide is often out-of-reach for people who can’t afford their fees. But more and more, there are ways to find low-cost or even free doula services. This article provides a roadmap to finding the support you need and deserve.
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How to Assemble & Use a Sitz Bath

A sitz bath is a simple but powerful postpartum tool that will help heal your body at home after vaginal birth.
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How to Choose Your Provider & Get the Care and Support You Need

One of the first choices you need to make in your pregnancy is where to go for your prenatal care. And it’s an important choice!
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JustBirth Space: Access Free Doula Messaging Support & Childbirth Classes

Get free messaging support from doulas and join support groups and classes today! For birthing people navigating pregnancy and parenting during a pandemic, a resource as accessible as your next text message can be a lifeline. ...
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Know Your Rights! 4 Powerful Resources for Childbearing People

Use these resources to become familiar with your rights during pregnancy and childbirth and to practice tools for self-advocacy.
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Learn How To Take Care of Yourself Postpartum & Get Support

These websites provide background information and a list of resources to address a range of postpartum issues, including infant feeding, postpartum depression, and postpartum complications.
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My Plans, Preferences, and Priorities for Birth

Use this worksheet to organize your birth plan and share with your support team what matters most to you during labor and birth.
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My Sources of Support During My Partner’s Birth

Even if you're not the one giving birth, going through the birth experience and becoming a parent can be hard. Asking for help is an amazing way to care for yourself and your family. Start by identifying and organizing your sources of support.
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My Sources of Support During My Partner’s Postpartum

Even if you’re not the one who gave birth, the postpartum period is hard. Asking for help is an amazing way to care for yourself and your family. Start by identifying and organizing your sources of support.
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My Sources of Support During My Partner’s Pregnancy

Even if you're not the one who is pregnant, expecting a baby and supporting your pregnant partner is hard. Asking for help is an amazing way to care for yourself and your family. Start by identifying and organizing your sources of support.
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My Sources of Support During Postpartum

Postpartum isn’t easy, physically or emotionally. Take the time to identify and organize your sources of support for yourself and your baby after birth.
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My Sources of Support During Pregnancy

Pregnancy isn’t easy, physically or emotionally. Take the time to identify and organize your sources of support to have a healthy pregnancy.
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My Sources of Support for Birth

Birth isn’t easy, physically or emotionally. Take the time to identify and organize your sources of support for labor and birth.
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Resources to Help You Choose a Care Provider & Place to Give Birth

These resources provide information on different types of maternity care providers and birth settings, including key questions to ask potential providers to help guide your decision-making.
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The Powerful Effects of Walking in Labor

Standing, walking, crouching on all fours: laboring on your back isn’t your only option.
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The Six Key Steps: Making Pregnancy and Birth Decisions

When deciding what’s best for you and your baby, following these six steps will help you ask the right questions and make choices with all the information you need.
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Top 5 Prenatal Care Resources for You

These resources provide information on different types of maternity care providers and birth settings, including key questions to ask potential providers to help guide your decision-making.
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Top 7 Tools & Guides for Cesarean and Vaginal Birth

Wondering whether a cesarean or vaginal birth is right for you? Read through these resources to learn more about the risks, benefits, and potential reasons for having a c-section or vaginal birth.
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Using Code Words to Ask for Pain Relief

Picking a code word ahead of time will help ensure that you are the one who ultimately decides when you’re ready for an epidural or other pain relief.
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Welcome Sign for Postpartum Visitors

In the days and weeks after birth, you need time to rest and recover! Download and print this sign to welcome visitors and remind them how they can support you during this important time.
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What Matters Most During My Birth?

Coming up with a birth plan and making decisions will be easier if you have sorted out what matters most to you. Use this worksheet to think about your priorities so you can weigh your options.
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What Matters Most During My Prenatal Care?

Making decisions about your prenatal care is easier if you have sorted out what matters most to you. Use this worksheet to think about your priorities so you can weigh your options.
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What You Should Know About Potential Complications & Warning Signs

Use these resources to become familiar with maternal health warning signs and possible complications.
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What’s the Difference Between a Midwife and a Doula?

While both types of birth workers support people through all stages of pregnancy (including postpartum), midwives and doulas play very different roles.
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Where Can I Find A Doula? 5 Tools to Find the Right Fit for You

Use these resources to help find a doula.
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You Got This! Discover Helpful Non-Medical Comfort Options

These resources provide information to help you understand and support your body’s natural processes during labor and birth, including techniques to reduce pain.