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📚 Education & Community

Spinning babies: A birth preparation approach that promotes balance, comfort, and optimal fetal positioning.

🍼 Family Support & Basic Needs

  • Help Me Connect: An official state resource directory to find localized programs providing home visiting, parenting support, and basic needs assistance.

  • Cradle of Hope: Provides financial assistance for rent/mortgage, child care, and baby essentials like portable cribs.

  • First Care Pregnancy Center: Provides pregnancy testing, social work support, and referrals for insurance, housing, and baby supplies

  • Free Food: This website is a helpful starting point for finding free and local food resources.

🏥 Maternal & Mental Health

  • Redleaf Center for Family Healing: Located at Hennepin Healthcare in Minneapolis, this center provides specialized mental health programs, therapy, and family support for pregnant individuals and parents of young children. Call their Mother-Baby HopeLine at 612-873-4673 for free, non-crisis guidance from a licensed therapist. 

  • Pregnancy & Postpartum Support Minnesota (PPSM): A local resource offering a warmline, support groups, and a directory of perinatal mental health specialists. Call or text the helpline at 1-800-944-4773