Community Agencies Doing Amazing Things

Frederick County Public Library

Family Connects - Frederick County

Judy Center

Asian American Center of Frederick

The Frederick Center

Body Workers

Sweet Willow Massage (massage, peer to peer support, serving MD and interstate)

Gaia Women’s PT (pelvic floor PT, office in WV and serves any client within driving distance)

Alpha Project Phyzio (Dr. Veronica Brugmann, pelvic floor PT in MD)

Birth Workers

Potomac Birth Services (birth, postpartum & lactation support, birth education, serving Western MD, WV and PA)

Highland Birth Support (home birth midwife, serving mid-state WV)

Walker Doula Services (postpartum & sleep support, serving Southern MD, Northern VA and Washington, DC)

Changing Birth (doula services, serving Maryland and Southeastern Pennsylvania)

Raven Midwifery (birthwork, preconception counseling, birth trauma & postpartum support, serving Baltimore)

Nurtured Well (women’s wellness and medication management, serving MD)

Mamatoto Village (wraparound perinatal support, serving DC and PG county)

Sweet Bee Services (holistic perinatal support, serving entire East Coast)

Books & Articles

For the Perinatal and Postpartum Periods:

Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Parenthood

Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts: A Healing Guide to the Secrets of Motherhood

Not Your Mothers Postpartum Book: Normalizing Post-Baby Mental Health Struggles, Navigating #MOMLife, and Finding Strength Amid the Chaos

Eating Her Young: Poems for the Disruption of Motherhood

Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting (they also have a sibling version!)

Tiny Humans, Big Emotions

Touched Out as a Mother

Regarding Trauma and PTSD:

The Things They Cannot Say: Stories Soldiers Won't Tell You About What They've Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War

It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog

Trauma is Really Strange

Perinatal & Parenting Websites

Seed & Sew

Postpartum Support International

National Perinatal Information Center

Mama Psychologists

Trauma & PTSD-Focused Websites

National Center for PTSD

Critical Incident Stress Management Team in Maryland (CISM)

20-Minute iRest Yoga Nidra Practice to Support Trauma Healing

Social Media Accounts

Seed and Sew

Positive Spin, LLC

Dr. Marta Perez

ACOG

Post Partum Support International

Jackie Schoemaker Holmes

Kristen Gingrich, LCSW, CADC, CSS

Platoon VSC

Platoon 22

Team Red, White & Blue

Hero Dogs

Podcasts

Voices of Your Village

I Am One

For a Good Laugh

Chrissy Allen (@csapunch)

SmartLess (and listen a little about some serious things)

There are Moms Way Worse Than You: Irrefutable Proof That You are Indeed a Fantastic Parent

The Big Fat Activity Book for Pregnant People

When in Frederick

Sol Yoga

DeAnna Houston Yoga

Holistic Health Associates

Bakehouse