Most, if not all, of the services listed are covered by OHP (and many other insurance companies).

All books are available at the library or can be lent from my personal lending library

Books:

Nutrition:

  • Real Food for Fertility

  • Real Food for Pregnancy

  • Nine Golden Months

  • How to Grow a Baby

Fertility:

  • It Starts With The Egg

  • Taking Charge of Your Fertility

Pregnancy through Postpartum:

  • Nurture – A “green” approach with yummy recipes

  • Why Did No One Tell Me This – Humorous but factual navigation of new motherhood

  • Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth – Focus on unmedicated births

  • Ina May’s Guide to Breastfeeding

  • Penny Simkin’s Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Newborn – Very thorough overview

  • Penny Simkin’s The Birth Partner – Great for labor support partners

  • Your Baby IS Speaking To You – Guide to newborn communication

LGBT+:

  • Pride and Joy

  • How to Make a Baby

Loss:

  • It’s Okay That You’re Not Okay

Service Referrals:

Bend Chiropractic (prenatal and as-needed postpartum):

  • Pure Light Chiro for mom and baby

  • Alpine Chiro for mom

Bend Acupuncture:

  • Melissa Keene at The Tree of Life

Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy (beneficial both before and after delivery - Consult with both to decide best fit):

  • McKenzie Van Loo at Sanctum Physio

  • Laura Flood at Lotus Flower Physio

Lactation Consultants (help for both before and after delivery - chat with both before deciding):

  • Brooke at Nourish Lactation

  • Kathryn at Cascade Lactation

Community & Support

  • Prenatal Yoga/Mommy-and-Me yoga: (various prices, various locations)

  • Pregnancy and Postpartum Walks at Riverbend Park: 9am in summer, 10am in winter (unless its icy) - free

  • Postpartum Support Group with Central Oregon Birth - scholarships available, free with OHP

  • Breastfeeding education with Central Oregon Birth (free with OHP)

  • Breastfeeding Support Group with Central Oregon Birth (free with OHP) or St. Charles (free to all)

Postpartum Meals:

  • Cody’s Country Kitchen makes family-style BBQ meals for pick-up

  • Kefi makes family-style Mediterranean meals for pick-up

  • Heartbeets is all arounds good family-style food that does delivery once a week

  • Noosh is a postpartum specific Persian-inspired meal service that delivers twice a week