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Baltimore City Health Department, B'more for Healthy Babies
Agency: Baltimore City Health Department
PARENTING EDUCATION: Provides a wide variety of social services that are designed to support the healthy development of families. Also, provides community resources for teen pregnancy prevention, smoking cessation, literacy, prenatal care, and the Hope project supporting mothers who have experienced fetal-infant and/or child loss. Offers the follow...
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Centro Tepeyac Women's Center
Agency: Centro Tepeyac Women's Center
PREGNANCY CENTER: Offers crisis pregnancy counseling, free pregnancy testing, prenatal classes and post- abortion counseling. Also provides adoption information, parenting skills development classes (for parents of children under 3, support groups for pregnant women and instruction in natural family planning.
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Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Parent Education Program
Agency: Greater Baltimore Medical Center
CHILDBIRTH EDUCATION: Provides childbirth classes. Content includes phases and stages of labor, breathing and relaxation techniques, positioning for comfort, the role of your partner, and medication options. Provides information on topics including the differences mothers of multiples may experience in labor and delivery, cesarean birth, postpartum...
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Miscarriage, Infant Death, & Stillbirth Support Groups
Agency: Miscarriage, Infant Death, & Stillbirth Support Groups
SUPPORT: Offers monthly support groups in the metro DC area that allows parents to share experiences with others who have faced a similar loss. In addition, offers pregnancy groups to help women cope with the complex emotions that can frequently accompany a pregnancy following a loss. Provides a source for connecting with other, a lending library, ...
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La Leche League, Frederick
Agency: La Leche League International
SUPPORT GROUP: A support group that provides support and education to parents who are pregnant or breast feeding to learn about breast feeding, ask questions, and voice concerns. A few topics to discuss may include advantages of breast feeding, preparing for baby, birth and baby's 1st weeks, avoiding and overcoming difficulties and nutrition, weani...
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La Leche League of Maryland, Delaware & DC
Agency: La Leche League International
EDUCATION: Offers education, information, mother-to-mother support and encouragement to women who want to breastfeed through phone help, monthly meetings, and lending libraries of books on childbirth, breastfeeding, and related parenting topics.
