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Angie Yetzke, LLC - Somatics
Angie Yetzke, LLC offers somatic movement therapy for moms, babies, kids and families. Maybe pregnancy was filled with stress…Maybe birth didn’t go as planned or maybe there was a traumatic birth…Maybe you and your baby are struggling to attach…Maybe this new role is overwhelming. Maybe your body doesn’t feel like your own. Or maybe you’re newly pregnant, and the anticipation of birth is bringing up a lot of your own childhood wounds. The answers, healing and freedom are in your body, and in your baby’s body. Somatic movement is gentle movement that repatterns your nervous system, resulting in improved mental focus, deeper relaxation and increased energy so that you can…
~attach securely and lovingly with your baby
~process difficult feelings, emotions or trauma
~establish and maintain boundaries where needed
~find body-centered calm and joy in the midst of chaos
~feel grounded, capable, fierce and nurturing
all while helping your little one stay on track through developmental movement patterning, primitive reflex integration, sensorimotor practice and PLAY!
baby beloved, inc.
baby beloved helps families reach their lactation goals using a realistic, time-tested approach that empowers everyone (including baby!)
Balanced Babies Therapy Services
I provide Occupational Therapy services for infants struggling with feeding difficulties, tethered oral ties, torticollis, plagiocephaly, difficulty meeting developmental milestones, colic, GI distress, constipation, infant massage, and education on how to hold and play with your baby.
BeHerVillage
BeHerVillage is a gift registry for support, not stuff. New parents can add the care they need like doulas, lactation care and in-home help to their registry, and their friends and family send funds for support as baby shower gifts.
It’s free for parents to use and it’s super easy. Find and fund your village on BeHerVillage.com
Craniosacral Center of Grand Rapids
Family Futures
Family Futures is a local nonprofit organization that helps all children in our community reach their full potential by getting you the tools, education, and support you need to navigate parenting, and give your child the best preparation for the journey ahead. We offer a variety of programs that give parents and caregivers access to tools that make sure your child is on track physically and emotionally, positive parenting education that strengthens your skills and resiliency, and connection to resources that help you overcome any parenting obstacles.
FIT4MOM Grand Rapids
FIT4MOM is the nation’s leading prenatal and postnatal fitness program, providing fitness classes and a network of moms to support every stage of motherhood. From pregnancy, through postpartum and beyond, our fitness and wellness programs help make moms strong in body, mind, and spirit.
Flat River Doulas
Our team of experienced doulas are here to support families through their pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum journey. We are committed to providing compassionate care and evidence-based information to help families make informed decisions about their birth and parenting experience. We offer Birth & Postpartum Doula support, Lactation and Breastfeeding support, Childbirth Education and Placenta Encapsulation. We are located in Greenville, MI but serve families choosing hospital or home birth in most of West Michigan.
Gold Coast Doulas
Gold Coast Doulas is a birth and postpartum doula agency located in Grand Rapids. We serve West Michigan and specialize in overnight newborn support. Other services include: sleep consulting, multiples care, birth doulas, day and overnight postpartum doulas, newborn care specialists, birth and parenting classes, Becoming A Mother online course, and baby registry consultations.
GR Birth & Wellness
At GR Birth & Wellness, we provide customized massage therapy, lymphatic drainage and holistic support to growing families. Whether you’re pregnant, newly postpartum, or chasing toddlers, we know you’re pouring outward at an incredible rate! Our goal is to make refilling your cup easy.
Grand Wellness LLC
Grand Wellness is an integrative wellness clinic, empowering individuals to heal their bodies with acupuncture, herbal medicine, bodywork, and reiki. Our office is a place to rest, heal, learn, and find a sense of belonging. It’s a simple truth – women’s bodies’ are magnificent. We are passionate about equipping your body with holistic tools to harness its full strength, bringing hormones into balance, and enhancing fertility. Acupuncture can help with irregular periods, amenorrhea, PCOS, endometriosis, fibroids, improving ovarian reserve and sperm quality, and relieving side effects from fertility medications. After baby arrives, acupuncture can help postpartum mothers promote relaxation and stress reduction, support milk production and hormonal balance, help heal and rejuvenate from the birthing process, and create a space and time for mom to heal. Grand Wellness is here to support you at any stage of your perinatal journey.
Great Lakes Doulas
Birth and postpartum support, occupational therapy, certified lactation counseling, prenatal and postpartum classes.
Great Start Collaborative
Imagine a world where every child is equipped to thrive, where every child is prepared to enter grade school without limitations. At Great Start Collaborative (GSC) of Kent County, this dream is our vision. It is the reason we exist, the reality we seek.
As a true resource for families in our community, we bring together local philanthropic organizations, educators, leaders of public agencies, and parents who strive to address the needs of children throughout West Michigan. By connecting these perspectives, we identify plans for systemic change to ensure all children, from birth to age eight, can access high-quality early learning and development programs.
Working hand-in-hand with the GSC members, The Great Start Family Coalition (GSFC) consists of parents and caregivers of children under 12. The GSFC is dedicated to informing and shaping early childhood initiatives, and helping families raise children who are supported and prioritized. Every coalition meeting encourages parents to share stories, participate in workshops, and advocate for assistance at the community, county, and state level.
Every parent deserves access to basic necessities. And every baby deserves to be clean, dry, and healthy. At Great Start Collaborative of Kent County, we’ve made it one of our greatest priorities to empower families and offer much needed support. We’re committed to keeping children covered at all stages in life, ensuring success from the very beginning.
Since 2009, The Great Start Family Coalition has collected over 2 million diapers (and counting!) to assist families who struggle with diaper supply. We thank our current and previous partners for their generous donations and continue to call others in our community to aid our initiative. Check out the links below to watch videos and learn more information.
Humble Beginnings Birth Services
Everything you need for a great pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experience! Antepartum, birth, and postpartum doula support. Neuroscience and evidence informed childbirth education. Lactation counseling in office and in home!
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Kent County Health Department
Woman, Infants and Children (WIC) provides families with nutrition education, breastfeeding support, and nourishing foods. Immunizations and education are provided to keep families safe from vaccine preventable diseases.
Environmental Health provides Home Health Screenings in partnership with First Steps Kent, Ready by 5 Program to screen for potential hazards in the home associated with lead, asthma, and safety, and offers additional inspections if hazards are found (free or a reduced fee scale based on income).
The Healthy Kent Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Coalition provides resources for pregnant and postpartum birthing persons experiencing anxiety, depression, and/or other mental health conditions.
Maternal Wellness Program
A Grand Rapids, MI based non-profit dedicated to offering a supportive and understanding community for those navigating the complexities of Pregnancy & Postpartum Depression/Anxiety, those who have lost a child by miscarriage, stillbirth, or early child loss, and those navigating pregnancy after loss.
MI Medicaid Doulas
MI Medicaid Doulas is a website that is designed to help families who are seeking professional birth and/or postpartum support through a local Michigan Doula that accepts Medicaid.
We are birth and postpartum doulas that help support and empower birthing person to feel supported and heard throughout pregnancy, birth and postpartum. Medicaid covers our services as well.
Mind Body Baby
Mind Body Baby offers yoga and Barre classes for mamas and mamas in-the-making, specializing in fertility, prenatal, postpartum and the years beyond. We will meet you exactly where you are I’m your journey supporting you with childcare, events, and educational workshops designed to build confidence in your beautiful body and deepen your mindset of empowerment and strength.
MomsBloom
MomsBloom is a non-profit organization that provides hands-on and emotional support in a family’s home as they transition to life with a newborn. Support is provided by trained, non-judgmental community volunteers.
Nurture Physical Therapy & Wellness
60 minute In-Home or In-Clinic Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy for Pregnant and Postpartum Mamas:
– Pelvic floor assessment (internal or external)
– Posture, breathing, muscle strength, spine & hip mobility
– Diastasis recti & core assessment
– C-section scar health & mobility
– Pelvic bone mobility & alignment
– Functional lifting & body mechanic assessment
– Address concerns with: bowel/bladder, pelvic pain, prolapse, intercourse, safe exercise, etc.
– Discuss goals & develop a plan to achieve goals
Pediatric Dental Specialists of West Michigan
Pediatric Dental Specialists with board certification to treat children from birth. We specialize in doing frenectomy treatment of lip, tongue and cheek ties when babies are having difficulties latching and feeding.
Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services
Behavioral health services for PMAD such as: Mother & Baby Day Program, Outpatient Services, Telehealth Services, Inpatient Services, Psychiatric Urgent Care, informational materials.
Radiant Roots Doula Network
Radiant Roots is a doula network serving Kent County and the surrounding regions. We connect pregnant women to a diverse selection of doulas, and help them access financial aid if needed.
Solstice Training and Recovery, LLC
D. Erica Getz skillfully provides physical therapy and wellness services for the prenatal and postpartum mothers who wants to feel comfortable and confident in this new stage of life by creating custom exercise programs and research-based education to create informed consumers. In-home and clinic-based treatment options are available.
swaddelini
Swaddelini is the soft and stretchy swaddle for sleeping newborn babies. 3D knit, seamless and made in Holland, MI. The swaddelini is lightweight and breathable and uses compression therapy to soothe babies to sleep. Works for newborns and when babies can roll their arms may be left out to begin transitioning out.
The Holding Space Counseling and Wellness, LLC
The Holding Space Counseling and Wellness, LLC offers outpatient counseling services both in person (at our Grand Rapids and Midland offices) as well as virtually across the state of Michigan. We specialize in perinatal PMAD (PMHD) and women’s issues, although we work with a variety of clients facing issues such as: trauma, anxiety, depression, loss, adjustment challenges, and relationship issues as well. We provide empathetic care for clients, based on their individual needs. You will feel safe in an environment that will foster exploration and growth. Helping others to live a happy and healthy life is our true passion.
Us And Kids
Marriage + Childbirth = some of the most emotional and stressful events in our lives. And yet we are just supposed to “”know”” how to do them, and do them well! Jan Talen, (LMFT, wife, mom and grandma), knows that knowing how to do this is NOT innate.
So she made Us And Kids to help with all the emotions, mind-swirls, & relationship tensions that can mess up our loving spaces. Coaching, courses in long and short form ease tension, create productive conversations, and open up the love-flow all around. Energy and empathy are enjoyed in every room in the house!
Us And Kids: Be Married Forever While Parenting Kiddos Together!
West Michigan Childbirth & Education
West Michigan’s source for Lamaze Childbirth Education! West Michigan Childbirth Education, where evidence-based facts, judgement-free support and compassionate care intersect! Trained and certified as Lamaze Childbirth Educators and DONA doulas, Hannah and Carrie have one simple goal: For all our parents to have a safe and healthy birth and to feel confident, supported and empowered to make informed decisions as they navigate their path through pregnancy, birth and parenthood.
When working with the West Michigan Childbirth Education group you can look forward to a fun, hands-on learning experience, centered on evidence-based information, comprehensive teaching of the physical and mental aspects of labor & birth, coping strategies, informed decision-making skills, community and more!
Together, Carrie and Hannah have supported over 350 families and are intimately aware of the growing needs and desires of our clients for a more informed, confident and empowering birth experience.
Women’s+ Health Collective
Rethinking gynecological care – At the Women’s+ Health Collective, we believe the treatment and care for your body’s most human and natural needs should be an empowering and deeply personal experience. Within a space for patients, run by women, our team works in collaboration to provide evidence-based and integrative healthcare customized for your mental, emotional and physical well-being. Here, we remove the false expectations of what culture, upbringing or external forces define as what human bodies “should” be. Instead, your voice and intuition serve an integral role in your treatment, guiding our team of certified, highly-trained care providers as they collaborate to uncover what you and your body truly need. Honoring your unique story, we offer the expertise of a wide, ever-evolving range of conditions and curate an integrative healthcare plan authentic to your experience. With this in mind, we offer: gynecological care, psychiatric care, sexual health and education, reiki, yoga, personal training, dietary services, and pelvic rehabilitation and education.
