Babies don't need a lot, but there are some needs and a few products, items and services that can make your life easier and or healthier. Here are some of our favorites sources and services, as well as links to other great informational web sites.
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Adoption Services
a resource for women considering adopting or giving a baby up for adoption in New Jersey
Better Birth Network
Doulas - Professional Labor and Birth Support. in Southern New Jersey and surrounding areas.
A doula is a woman who understands the physiology of birth and provides continuous physical, emotional, and informational support to pregnant and birthing women, new mothers, and their partners and families.
Every woman deserves to have a confident, powerful, beautiful birth that she can remember with joy. Above all, our job is to provide the support a woman needs to help her birth happen in the way she desires.
In addition to the services we normally provide as your doula, we also offer a range of classes and activities to help you prepare for your child's birth:
Childbirth Preparation Classes
We teach Empowered Birth, a program designed to develop a woman's confidence in her body's ability to give birth and her trust in the birth process. Classes run weekly for 6 weeks or can be suited to your individual needs at your Southern New Jersey (Glassboro) location or ours.
Postpartum Care
For an hourly fee, a Better Birth Network doula may be available to provide short-term postpartum care to new families. This includes meal preparation, light housekeeping, breastfeeding help and more.
Contact us to discuss how our doulas can provide the support you need to help your birth happen in the way that you desire. Contact
Gentle Childbirth Preparation Classes in South JerseyThe Blossom & Birth Gentle Birth Preparation Course is packed with lots of techniques and tools all designed so that you feel prepared and ready for a comfortable birth.Would you like to give your baby the gift of a drug-free gentle beginning?Blossom & Birth is a fun, relaxing natural childbirth education class that teaches you and your birthing companion the tools for a shorter more comfortable natural labor and birth.~ Learn breathing techniques to use to optimize each contraction/surge.~ Learn the secret to avoiding episiotimies.~ Birth Companions will learn the best way to suppor their loved one.~ Learn what you need to be prepared for your hospital experience & birth plan.and so much more...See www.BlossomandBirth.com to see our on-going class schedule in multiple South Jersey Locations. 856-465-2125.
Experience Yoga Studios
Prenatal Yoga will help you embrace & celebrate your journey into motherhood. The program will provide a nurturing environment in which you can connect with other pregnant woman while enjoying the many physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits of prenatal yoga. Learn how to quiet your mind and gently encourage the body to stretch, move, breathe and relax. Classes are be designed to help ease common discomforts, cope with normal aches and pains of pregnancy, and prepare the mind, spirit, and body for your birth experience.
Pregnancy Massage Experience Yoga Studios offers Pregnancy Massage which also can help reduce the aches and pains of pregnancy, increase circulation, improve digestion, improve skin elasticity that can help reduce stretch marks and like yoga, promotes relaxation by lessening anxiety.
Footprints In Time, Inc. is a peer-support group that offers free holistic services designed to support, nurture, and comfort mothers who experience the tragic loss of a baby in any stage of pregnancy, birth and in the first few months of life, or any other mother needing our services due to other traumatic experiences. Our support groups and other services encompass emotional, physical, social and spiritual support that facilitates and promotes individual coping and healing mechanisms that are inherent in all of us. We are women who have personally experienced the loss of our own baby and we are here for you in your time of need.
Visit our website for more information about our peer-support groups and other services.
You may contact us at: (866) 583-5122 or email: info@footprintsintime.org
Infant Massage is a great opportunity to communicate and bond with your baby. Learn the different techniques used to massage your baby through our classes. Touch is one of the fundamental tools used to connect with others. Why not start a lifelong connection with your infant today? For more information or to register for a 5 week course contact: Stacy Baggstrom (Certified Educator of Infant Massage) at 609.412.9281 or email soyfullyyours@comcast.netAdditional information about infant massage is also available at InfantMassageUSA.org
Music Together® at Moorestown School of Music
www.msmnj.org
Music Together® classes involve infants, toddlers and preschoolers and their parents or other caregivers in informal singing, chanting, moving, listening and instrument playing activities that are developmentally appropriate for very young children. Music Together® offers parents instruction in how to encourage their preschool children’s musical development by continuing the activities outside of class. Every child’s development benefits from early exposure to music and movement. Because the early months are so important, Moorestown School of Music offers two Music Together options for babies. Babies eight months and younger at the time of registration may attend a Mixed Ages Class, whether registered on their own or attending free with an older brother or sister. Babies may also take the special “Babies Class” offered as a one-semester introduction to Music Together. (This class cannot be repeated.) The music activities and materials are specially designed for parents who want to learn as much as possible about music development in babies. Meet other parents of newborns and learn some fascinating music activities you can recreate at home with your baby.
For more information on Music Together at Moorestown School of Music please visit our webpage at www.msmnj.org . You may also reach us at 856-235-7565 or info@msmnj.org.
Karen Kurtz, IBCLC
Professional Lactation Services for BREASTFEEDING SUCCESS
What is Breastfeeding Success?
Breastfeeding Success is different for each family. Breastfeeding Success is helping a family meet their breastfeeding goals. Some mothers want to breastfeed a short time, some as long as they can, some mothers want to pump milk for their babies, some want to overcome difficult challenges... There are no right or wrong answers to breastfeeding, my goal is to help you achieve your goals with good, current researched backed information and lots of personal attention. Call and see how we can do this together. 856-448-4666
Quality Care Resource & Referral Services, Inc. services Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, and Salem Counties. We offer parenting classes, child care subsidies, and other resources to child care age children.
South Jersey Resources
Holistic Moms West Jersey/Philadelphia Chapter
Parenting is a tough job. It's even harder when you are choosing to do things "differently" -- whether that means seeking out holistic therapies for your family, eating organic foods, living green, co-sleeping, homeschooling, fighting commercialism, or trying to live simply. But there are moms out there just like you who are seeking to nurture their children and to empower themselves!
Holistic Moms Network (HMN) members share a common bond: a desire to be the best parents possible by providing our children with a physical, psychological, and spiritual environment that will nourish them and allow them to reach their greatest potential. To nurture our children, we strive to educate ourselves and to make choices that will enable them in mind, body, and spirit.Holistic Moms Network is a diverse group of holistic parents from throughout Burlington, Camden, and Gloucester and surrounding areas. We welcome all area moms (and dads) with an interest in natural health and mindful parenting.
La Leche League in New Jersey
La Leche League is an international, nonprofit, non-sectarian organization dedicated to providing education, information, support, and encouragement to women who want to breastfeed. All women interested in breastfeeding are invited to attend our meetings or to call our Leaders for help.
League meetings offer a unique Opportunity for you to learn more about the natural way to nurturing your baby. La Leche League Leaders, experienced nursing mothers, are well prepared to answer your questions. Firsthand accounts about breastfeeding and practical mothering tips are readily shared at the meetings. The group provides the womanly support that is so crucial to the nursing mother. Of course, babies are always welcome at LLL functions.
To find a group anywhere in New Jersey and to print out a list of meetings and leaders in Southern New Jersey visit La Leche League Groups in New Jersey.
South Jersey MOMS (Mothers of Multiples)
Support for families with twins or higher order multiples.
Beyond South Jersey
Chinaberry is a great company to buy books, games, toys and other unique items for children and adults. They give great insightful reviews on their books and toys, with recommendations for age groups that will enjoy them. Check them out. You also are supporting a caring, family run business.
gentleparents.com - guiding our children with kindness
Guiding our children with kindness through attachment parenting. Articles, message boards, photo gallery, birth stories and more.
You Can Homeschool - Interested in Homeschooling or just some great ideas for books and learning games for kids?
Inclusion on this page is at the discretion of the site owner. It does not imply endorsement of specific professionals or practioners, only that they meet the philosophy of South Jersey Babies.