Visit with representatives from many pregnancy, birth, parenting and baby related resources including doulas, midwives, massage therapists, fitness instructors, childbirth educators, lactation consultants, childcare providers, and photographers. Find out how to make the most of these valuable resources in the birthing and early parenting community.
Alternative Health
Body Love Cafe – Dr. Brandy Zachary and the Body Love Cafe team of practitioners and staff knows there are answers, solutions and hope through natural health restoration.
Golden Gate Chiropractic Center – A Family Empowerment Center that focuses on providing ease through familial transitions and increasing resilience to stress.
Hamilton Chiropractic – Prenatal and Pediatric Chiropractor
Pure Haven – Empowering families to choose the healthiest lifestyle possible by educating consumers how to avoid toxins in your personal and home care products.
San Francisco Family Chiropractic – Dr. Nadia Fakhoury is a Chiropractor specializing in prenatal, postnatal, and pediatric health. Dr. Nadia is Webster Certified – a technique to encourage optimal fetal positioning.
Birthing
AcuDoula – AcuDoula combines the skills of a licensed acupuncturist and certified doula. Inspired by traditional healing arts AcuDoula provides expecting mothers with complete care through pregnancy, delivery, and recovery.
BABI Bay Area Birth Information – With the goal of reducing unnecessary birth interventions and improve breastfeeding, BABI provides evidence-based education, support, and resources.
BellyFull Birth SF – BellyFull Birth offers birth classes that are evidence-based, fun, and interactive. Combining informative classes with ancient yogic practices offers a broad lens to think about your pregnancy, your birth, and postpartum.
Birth Evolved – Birth Evolved offers complete birth preparation courses and changework sessions that allow you to banish anxiety and have a calm and empowered birth and beyond.
Blossom Birth Services – Through classes, workshops, support groups, and accessibility to community resources, Blossom is a non-profit that strives to support and inform expectant and new parents to raise healthy, secure children to create a strong community now and in the future.
Golden Gate Doula Associates – The GGDA is an established doula practice in San Francisco. We understand the unpredictability of pregnancy and the importance of emotional and physical support.
NATURAL RESOURCES – A non-profit, community pregnancy, childbirth & early parenting resource center. Offering classes, products, rentals & support to growing families. Visit us for cloth diapers, breastfeeding consultations, sleep support & more.
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Newborn Connections @ CPMC – Newborn Connections @ CPMC promotes the health and well-being of expectant and new families through education, resources, and support, offering tours, classes, groups, lactation consultations, pump rentals, and products across San Francisco.
Nightingale Birth Center – Giving birth with us feels less like a hospital experience, and more like being at home. Experience a safe, calm, peaceful birth in our beautiful birth rooms equipped with large, comfortable beds and deep birth pools.
SAN FRANCISCO BIRTH CENTER – San Francisco Birth Center offers comprehensive midwifery care in a safe home-like environment. As midwives, we believe that birth is a normal physiologic process. We trust in the innate wisdom of the body and honor pregnancy and birth as a powerful time of transition in a woman’s life. SF Birth Center is a comfortable place to bring your baby into the world under the gentle hands of experienced midwives.
Sutter Health CPMC Newborn Connections – Sutter Health CPMC is here for you every step of the way, before, during and after your pregnancy. CPMC is voted #1 best hospital to have a baby in San Francisco. (Bay Area Parent Magazine, 2017).
Doulas
Bay Area Baby Squad – BABS offers doula services to help parents transition smoothly into their new role. Serving the entire bay area.
Bare With Me: A mother-Daughter Doula Duo – Bare With Me: A Mother-Daughter Doula Duo provides in-depth, one-on-one childbirth education along with pregnancy, labor/birth, and postpartum support for the birthing person and their partner!
Brilliant Births, LLC – Doula professionals who are focused on educated, inspired, empowered birth choices in the California Bay Area. Let us find the right doula for you!
Doulahood – Doulahood was born with the intention of building continuity of care for new families among a community of closely connected doulas.
Navigating Postpartum – Navigating Postpartum offers an online postpartum preparedness program as well as a range of in-person services from home prep and postpartum planning to postpartum doula services, Mother Roasting, family photos, and parent & infant massage classes. Shari is CPR, AED and First Aid Certified for adults and infants through the American Red Cross and volunteers as a local coordinator for Postpartum Support International.
SF Doula Group – San Francisco Doula Group is a collective of professional birth and postpartum doulas that serve the Bay Area.
SageFemme Prenatal Massage & Doula Services – SageFemme Prenatal Massage & Doula Services provides birth support through specialized therapeutic massage therapy, doula services, and birth education advocacy for pregnant people.
Soulful Passage – Doula serving families of the East Bay as a home birth Midwife’s Assistant, Childbirth Educator and Full spectrum Doula, with a commitment to providing reliable, respectful care that nurtures families through the phases of bringing forth new life.
Newborns
Bay Area Intactivists – A Bay Area nonprofit (501©3) corporation supporting and informing parents with information about circumcision.
Happy Baby Signs – Helping parents live with more joy by illuminating new ways to nurture, communicate, and bond with their baby using American Sign language.
Jewish Baby Network SF – Jewish Baby Network connects Bay Area families with little ones to each other and to Jewish Community.
MeadJohnson Nutritional – Infant formula
Newborn Connections – Newborn Connections is the go-to resource for evidence-based information on pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding. Providing education, lactation support, and well chosen products for expectant and new parents.
SF Night Doulas – San Francisco Night Doulas is a co-op of night postpartum doulas who assist and support parents and families throughout the night.
Diaper Services
EARTHBABY COMPOSTABLE DIAPER SERVICE – The most convenient and eco-responsible diapering solution for your baby and your earth. We have composted over 7 million pounds of diapers so far – diapers to dirt in 14 weeks. First month of delivery service is Free – try us out!
Tiny Tots –Tiny Tots is a family-owned small business offering convenient home pick up and delivery compost diapers in the SF Bay Area since 1966.
Child Care
AuPaireCare – The premier au pair agency, dedicated to matching families in the United States with international au pairs who provide live-in childcare and bring the world into your home. AuPairCare is there for you every step of the way.
C5 Children’s School – An innovative leader of world-wide best practices for Infants through Pre-Kindergarten learning and development, since 1985, Reggio inspired, emergent curriculum, inquiry, and project-based, appropriate technologies, Music Together, creative movement & dance, leading-edge emotional intelligence, and cognitive skills
Child Care Coordinating Council of San Mateo County – For over 40 years, 4Cs has been the trusted resource for childcare and preschool needs for parents living and working in San Mateo County. 4Cs supports the county’s 1,000 licensed childcare providers and preschool programs, investing in professional development and improving program quality.
Children’s Council Of San Francisco – Finding childcare can be a challenge. Children’s Council is here to help you find childcare that meets your family’s needs.
Cultural Care Aupair – Aupair Concierge brings families affordable and flexible childcare options.
Golden Gate Nannies – Golden Gate Nannies is a boutique childcare placement agency. We connect bay area families with experienced nannies!
Food
Abbott Labs/ Similac – Abbott Nutrition is dedicated to fulfilling the promise of human potential.
Beech-Nut – Beech-Nut baby food is a complete line of classic, natural and organic real food for babies and toddlers, inspired by homemade recipes.
Ends + Stems – Meal Plans to Reduce Household Food Waste. For less than the cost of a coffee, our meal planning platform does the mental labor for you! We provide weekly recipes and a grocery list designed to use up what you buy so dinnertime is simple, delicious, and eco-conscious.
Farm Fresh To You – Farm Fresh To You delivers high-quality organic produce fresh from the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm to your doorstep. This convenient service promotes healthy eating and sustainable agriculture.
Happy Family – Beginning with baby’s first few years of life, Happy Family Organics offers an extensive line of nutritious foods for babies, toddlers, kids and their mothers.
KIND – There’s healthy. There’s tasty. Then there’s healthy and tasty. KIND believes you deserve both. What began with just 8 bar varieties in 2004 has grown to over 22 bars and 6 Healthy Grains snackable clusters.
Kitchen Doula– Using only the highest quality organic, seasonal, and local ingredients, Kitchen Doula lovingly prepares wholesome, delicious soups and snacks, and delivers directly to you!
Mrs. Patel’s – Mrs. Patel’s makes handcrafted, all-natural, Ayurvedic foods supporting pregnancy, lactation and life. They make good food for strong women.
For Moms
Balanced.Physioga – Providing holistic pelvic health needs to mamas via pelvic floor physical therapy, vaginal steaming, restorative yoga, and myofascial release.
Beautycounter – A line of high performing safer skincare and make up
Dermal Refuge – Dermal Refuge is San Francisco based medspa specializing in nonsurgical and non invasive face & body contouring
EVERY MOTHER – Offer robust, research-based exercise programming to meet the needs of modern mothers. The only program scientifically proven to treat diastasis recti.
Fourth Trimester Podcast – The Fourth Trimester Podcast is a free, must-listen audio resource on iTunes all about preparing for a healthy and positive experience with a new baby
The LUNA Method – A smart, evidence based fitness + wellness methodology expertly designed to support the modern woman & mama through all stages of motherhood.
Multiwear – MULTIWEAR® is a fledgling company taking on the baby world by storm with their first product, the Cardimom®, a 10-in-1 use convertible nursing sweater & cover
ROOTS & Anchors peripartum counseling – Outreach-based brief peripartum assessment and counseling for moms and support systems
Savage Wellness – Savage Wellness and our S.Well Moms Course are here to help mamas re-learn how to prioritize their needs and their health in a way that feels awesome and sustainable. We learn to speak kindly to ourselves and focus on making small healthy choices that, together, have a huge impact on our health and happiness.
Senegence/Lipsense – Evolutionary line of skincare and cosmetics that not only work and are budge free but also good for your skin. Cruelty free and environmentally conscious
Parenting
Helping Babies Sleep – Empowering tired parents to teach their babies and toddlers to sleep via an online DIY online course, personalized one to one consultations or in home personal service.
Inceptive – Expert-led, online education classes for parents, from prenatal through when your child is 5 years of age! We work with highly accomplished UCSF, Stanford and Harvard trained experts. Our workshop topics range from tactical help (“baby sleep issues”, “lactation support”) and emotional support (“postpartum depression” “returning to work and managing anxiety and guilt”) to career-oriented (“negotiating flex time”).
Newborn Code LLC – Our Mission is to empower mothers while leading the way in postpartum recovery and overall health of an infant. Most importantly to improve postpartum outcomes by delivering the best postpartum care plan, making it accessible to new parents all over the country.
NURSING MOTEHRS COUNSEL INC. – Breastfeeding support by phone, home visits, free prenatal classes by highly-trained volunteer counselors who have also breastfed.
Paulina Temple Sleep Solutions – Helping exhausted families get the sleep they need and deserve
The Prepared Parent – The Prepared Parent offers postpartum classes and free support groups to expectant parents to help support the transition into postpartum.
WeeSleep – Anne Del Valle – Certified Infant & Toddler WeeSleep Sleep Consultant
Photography
Beauty and the Cutie Portrait – Photography studio in Burlingame specializing in children, family and maternity portrait. Both in-studio and on-location photo sessions are available.
Emily Jenks Photography – San Francisco based family photographer. Couples, Maternity, Fresh 48, Newborn, and Family Photography.
lemonshoots –Newborn and Maternity Photography servicing San Francisco and the Bay Area
Katie Hanrahan Photography – Birth, Newborn, lifestyle and family photographer
Limoo Photography – Specializing in maternity, newborn, baby, and one-year-old cake smash photography; Limoo provides premium fine art photography services in the comfort of your home.
Pitaya Photography – Pitaya Photography is a Marin and San Francisco photographer specializing in newborn, maternity and helping women celebrate and be seen in the moments they care about.
Nancy Alcott Baby + Child Photography – Nancy Alcott is a three-time best of the bay newborn photographer winner, specializing in handcrafting newborn posing sessions.
Pitaya Photography – Pitaya Photography is a Marin and San Francisco photographer specializing in newborn, maternity and helping women celebrate and be seen in the moments they care about.
Shefali Parekh –Shefali Parekh is a San Francisco Bay Area lifestyle photographer specializing in modern newborn, maternity and family photography.
Xilo Photography – Kati is a documentary-style Family & Newborn photographer. Her work honors the small, everyday moments that define both the power and beauty of humanity.
Toddler Activities
Jewish Baby Network – Connecting Bay Area Families with Babies 0-36 Months to Each Other and the Jewish Community.
La Petite Baleen Swim Schools – Year-round, privately-owned, indoor swim lessons for ages 2 months and up. Award-winning, child development-based curriculum. Free lessons for infants 2-6 months.
Other
Abbott Nutrition – Abbott is an international company that provides breakthrough products to help you and your family lead healthier lives with diagnostics, medical devices, nutrition and branded generic pharmaceuticals.
AMAG/Cord Blood Registry – Cord Blood Registry is the leading provider of family banking for newborn stem cells from umiblical cord blood and umbilical cord tissue.
Beep! Beep! – Car seat & baby proofing – San Francisco Bay Area premiere car seat education and installation, and now, baby proofing!
Cord Blood Registry – Newborn stem cell bank
Eagle Strategiess LLC and New York Life – My team and I work with families to figure out what type of protection they need in life and disability insurance and how to start planning early for their children’s education and college planning.
La Petite Baleen Swim Schools – Year-round swim lessons for all ages!
Little Things Documentaries– Family films that capture the little things in life
Mass Mutual Northern California – We protect the most important relationships in your life from any financial contingency.
New York Life – Dedicated to working with new and families with young children to make sure they are properly protected with life and disability protection and education planning.
Northwestern Mutual – Whether you are getting married, planning a family or saving for college we are able to provide advice for every stage of your family’s needs.
Recess Collective – Recess Collective is an inclusive community centered space committed to supporting families from the time of pregnancy through the first four years by providing opportunities for education, play, creativity, support & connection.
Red Tricycle – Free newsletter and web site for children and parents with a mission to promote local adventures and activities.
Sandy Onken Fiek – We are local Realtors who will find your dream home for your new growing family.
Stroller Spa – Baby Gear Detail, Authorized Repair, Rentals and Sales
Sustainability Concierge – Sustainability Concierge is your personal guide to a greener home. Most people would like to be more green and toxic-free but need a little help.
Windfall Group– Moms helping Moms! Windfall Group hosts first-time homebuyer info sessions to help growing families get into their dream homes.
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