We are not meant to do this alone.
REACH…so many are here
Resources we love.
Find a list below of external resources we love and highly recommend.
One Down Dog.
Live group yoga classes of all kinds of styles, online groups, workshops, and so much more.
Both Kim and Joana have taught here and LOVE it.
Kindred Space LA.
Birth Center located in South LA offering Lactation Consultation, Placenta Encapsulation, Childbirth Education, Parenting support, birthworker trainings and a whole lot more. The first and only Black owned birth center in SoCal.
Village Birth.
Virtual classes of all kinds and support groups. They also have a doula registry for those in the LA area.
Born to Be Loved.
Faith Morie Freeman, CPM LM is a homebirth midwife based in DTLA who serves the greater LA area. She specializes in VBAC, water birth and more, and also offers IUI.
Faith is Kim’s midwife and she loves her!
Jessica Diggs.
Jessica Diggs, CPM LA is a homebirth midwife in LA as well as a lead doula educator for Doula Trainings International. She is also the education lead at LOOM and provides childbirth education and more. Beyond midwifery, she offers well person care and conception support.
LOOM.
LOOM offers on-demand health education classes covering varying sexual and reproductive health topics. Their new platform debuts in the Spring of 2021.
Sparrow's Nest.
This group of talented massage therapists offer indoor and outdoor massages in East LA, travel to clients all around LA, and offer virtual services. They specialize in fertility, prenatal, and postpartum massage. They have additional specialized services such as massage for labor induction, lactation, and bereavement, as well as pregnancy safe holistic skincare.
Bellibind.
Custom fitted postpartum belly binding to aid in recovery; available in-person in LA and Phoenix. At-home kits and virtual seasons available as well. They also sell other healing body care products for postpartum.
Cocoon Chiropractic.
Dr. Nadia specializes in prenatal, postpartum and pediatric (newborns and children) chiropractic care in LA. She only does house calls at this time. She also offers breech bodywork, private yoga, and vaginal steam sessions.
Rooted Physical Therapy.
Dr. Grace is a PT who specializes in obstetric and pelvic health. They work out of two different offices, in West LA and Sherman Oaks and also offers virtual sessions.
The Cradle Company.
They are a pregnancy and postpartum resource center that services LA with virtual options as well. Their offerings are vast and include lactation services, pediatric sleep consultations, newborn care and childbirth education classes, postpartum care and more.
LA Lactation.
Julie Matheney is an IBCLC in LA who also offers virtual consultations. Her skill set includes infants with tongue and lip tie, cleft lip and palate, trach and vent dependent, children with developmental delays and other feeding disorders. She offers free consultations to those who qualify financially.
Nourished by Hand.
Julia is a talented bodyworker in LA who offers massage therapy as well as Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy. She works with pregnancy and postpartum as well as well babies and toddlers. Craniosacral can be very helpful for a variety of issues for babies. Julia has an office in Montrose but also does home visits when needed.
Karla Leng.
Karla is a doula and activist in LA who is in her words (because they say it best) “trying to start a REVOLUTION to preserve and protect human birth, keep Black birthing people alive, and generally fuck shit up.” She offers her services on a you choose what you pay basis.
Marleen Jett.
Marleen is a birth and postpartum doula LA as well as a vegan chef who offers postpartum meal services.
Love of a Little One.
Lauren and Yasmeen work together as a team and together offer birth, postpartum and lactation services. They also offer nutrition and meals, prenatal education, and photography and they have some cool packages where you can pay for a certain amount of hours of support and then decide how you want to use it between all that they offer.
Ometeotl Healing.
DONA trained birth and postpartum doula, childbirth educator, Este passes on the knowledge of MTM (Mexican Traditional Medicine, pre-Columbian) in regard to perinatal health. They practice and teach from a place that continually bases trauma-informed language and awareness, perinatal-indicated movement, and an invitation to spiritually expand. Nothing brings them more joy and purpose than to create brave spaces that invite folkx to shed, heal, grow, and to be empowered to dance with their most authentic selves.
Susan Hammoudeh, PSY. D.
Dr. Susan Hammoudeh is a clinical psychologist who specializes on trauma and mood disorders that surround infertility, miscarriage, pregnancy and postpartum. She does offer video and phone sessions as well as in-person.