Whether you're just curious, planning or already expecting, learn all about how Maternity/Paternity leaves work including pay, benefits, sub info and more! United Healthcare also presents important information.
Find resources for before, during, and after your pregnancy. Whether you’re thinking about having a baby or have one on the way, you probably have questions. With maternity support from UnitedHealthcare, you'll find the information and support you need, throughout your pregnancy and after giving birth. Using our various member tools and resources, you'll find help to learn what you need to know, including:
What to expect during your pregnancy
How to stay healthy before, during and after your pregnancy
Ways to manage your health through pregnancy and postpartum
Maternity support is designed to work for all mothers, no matter what the pregnancy journey looks like.
Parents of every culture, age, income level and race can develop perinatal mental health disorders. Symptoms can appear any time during pregnancy and the first 12 months after childbirth.
PSI is dedicated to promoting awareness of mental health issues related to childbearing and providing free resources so every woman and family has access to information and social support. PSI's support groups cover a wide range of needs that focus on adoptive and foster parents, Black mothers, NICU parents, Perinatal mood support, dads, queer and trans parents, fertility challenges, pregnancy and infant loss and more.
Click the link above for more information or check out the quick links below:
Free Peer-to-Peer Online Support Groups - Click HERE
Information on Perinatal Mental Health Disorders including depression, anxiety, obsessive symptoms, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar mood disorders, and postpartum psychosis
Need help now? Call or text the PSI Helpline at 1-800-944-4773
Check out this site from Arapahoe County Public Health Department to find local resources and information for mothers, fathers, and families to support breastfeeding. You'll find information about milk donation centers, lactation support, WIC, breastfeeding support groups, and lactation friendly workplaces.
Children's Hospital Breastfeeding Management Clinic provides a comprehensive approach to breastfeeding challenges for the baby and family. We can support any mother and baby having challenges (e.g., low milk, sore nipples) with breastfeeding from birth through older children (e.g., weaning). We see self-referrals, as well as referrals from community physicians, birth centers and other lactation programs.
Our "Trifecta Team" (a pediatrician with breastfeeding expertise, a lactation consultant and a psychologist) offers a unique multidisciplinary team of services for a comprehensive breastfeeding evaluation of both mother and baby. It's covered by most insurance companies so only a copay is required.
To learn more about the Breastfeeding Management Clinic at Children's Colorado, please call 720-777-3605. Times and locations available in the metro area. To schedule an appointment, please call 720-777-2740.
Baby Café is a weekly support group for all breastfeeding parents in our community and their families. Join us at our Aurora South WIC location every Tuesday from 1–2 p.m. Baby Café is open to both those who are on WIC as well as those who are not.
La Leche League International (LLLI) has been supporting mothers and nursing parents for over 66 years. If you need support with breastfeeding or chestfeeding the LLLI website is here to help!
WIC is the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) that makes available free healthy food, breastfeeding support, breast pumps, nutrition education and other services to those who qualify, regardless of citizenship status.
Dsyphoric Milk Ejection Reflex (D-MER) presents itself with slight variations depending on the mother experiencing it, but it has one common characteristic - a wave of negative or even devastating emotion just prior to letdown.
This emotional response is the consistent key component in D-MER. The breastfeeding mother experiences this surge of negative emotions about 30-90 seconds prior to her milk release when breastfeeding, pumping or with spontaneous MER.
By the time milk actually releases and the baby starts gulping, the feelings have dissipated, only to return just prior to another MER.
The emotional responses experienced with D-MER fall within a three-level spectrum: despondency, anxiety and agitation.
For more information on D-MER click: https://d-mer.org/understanding-d-mer.
CCSD's page devoted to answering all of your questions regarding maternity leave, paternity leave, adoption leave, parenting leave, family care leave and more!