Community Resources
Acupuncturists
Dr. C “Captain” Lumenello, PLLC (Townshend, VT) - Integrative Chinese Medicine
Cup of Life Healing Center (Keene, NH) - Offers community acupuncture
Emma Lee, LAc (Brattleboro, VT and Randolph, VT)
Greenfield Community Acupuncture (Greenfield, MA)
Sojourns Community Health Clinic (Westminster, VT) - Individual acupuncture visits and sliding scale community acupuncture
Baby clothing and gear
Community Clothes Closet (Shelburne Falls, MA)
Community Network for Children (Leverett, MA)
Northfield Clothing Closet (Northfield, MA)
Village Community Closet (Brattleboro, VT)
Birth doulas
Cheshire Medical Center Volunteer Doula Program (Keene, NH)
Green River Doula Network (Western MA) - Many of the doulas listed here will travel to southern VT and/or NH
Roots in Vermont (Ludlow, VT)
Warm Welcome Birth (Florence, MA)
Birth tub rental
Warm Welcome Birth (Florence, MA)
Childbirth, Nursing, and Newborn Care classes
Center Song (virtual)
Creative Movement: Practical Prep for a Positive Birth (Florence, MA)
Embodied Birth (virtual) - Usually a trans/queer-specific class
Evidence-Based Birth (virtual)
Love Your Birth (virtual)
Mama Natural (virtual)
Whole Body Pregnancy (virtual) - LGBTQ+ and BIPOC-specific classes
Chiropractors
Dr. Anna Moore (Brattleboro, VT)
Gruber Family Chiropractic (Brattleboro, VT)
River Bend Chiropractic (Brattleboro, VT)
Sojourns Community Health Clinic (Westminster, VT)
Vermont Chiropractic & Wellness (Putney, VT)
Craniosacral practitioners
Branch Gold (Brattleboro, VT)
Tender Courage Birth & Wellness (Turners Falls, MA) - also offers home visits anywhere within 45 minutes of Turners Falls
Food Access
Crop Cash (Vermont)
Farm Share Program (Vermont)
Food Banks and Pantries
SNAP Benefits (food stamps)
Vermont (also called 3SquaresVT)
Herbalists
Old Ways Herbal: Juliette Abigail Carr, RH (AHG) (Newfane, VT)
Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism (Virtual visits)
Herbs (Locally grown)
Free Verse Farm & Apothecary (Chelsea, VT)
Nomad Farm (Bellows Falls, VT)
Wilson Farm (Greensboro, VT)
Lactation/nursing/breastfeeding individual consultants
CIS Responsive Nursing at Winston Prouty (Windham County)
Kimberleigh Weiss-Lewit, IBCLC (Manchester, VT, home visits, and virtual)
Lex Beach, IBCLC (Florence, MA and virtual)
Lactation/nursing/breastfeeding support and groups
La Leche League of Maine and New Hampshire
La Leche League of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont
New Parent Postpartum Check-in at Cooley Dickinson Hospital (Northampton, MA)
Legal (donor agreements, gestational surrogates, reciprocal IVF, adoption, second parent adoption)
Emily Doskow (Oakland, CA)
Kauffman Law and Mediation (Boston, MA)
Massage and other bodywork
Andrew Hallal (Brattleboro, VT) - Inner Heat Yoga
Katy McLaughlin (Peterborough, NH)
Lilliana Rivera (Wilton, NH) - Offers abdominal massage therapy
Season Smith (Keene, NH) - Season of Healing
Sojourns Community Health Clinic (Westminster, VT)
Mental Health
Also see Postpartum Support Groups section below
Children’s Integrated Services (Brattleboro, VT)
Clinical & Support Options (Greenfield, Northampton, Amherst, and other MA locations)
Loren Cole, LICSW (Brattleboro, VT)
National Perinatal Hotline – Postpartum Moms’ Line
1-800-773-6667. 24 hrs/day, seven days a week. English and Spanish.
Postpartum Support International – Postpartum Depression Stressline
1-800-944-4773. 9am - 9pm. Leave a message–calls returned within 24 hours.
Rose Hitchings, PsyD at Cheshire Medical Center (Keene, NH)
Naturopaths
Anna Abele, ND (Guilford, VT and Northampton, MA)
Biologic Healthcare (Brattleboro, VT)
Sojourns Community Health Clinic (Westminster, VT)
Parenting supports
CIS Family Support - Winston Prouty (Windham County, VT)
Parents as Teachers home visits - Winston Prouty (Windham County, VT)
Pelvic floor physical therapy
BMH Physical Therapy (Brattleboro, VT)
Catherine Hardie, PT, MSPT, OCS (Florence, MA)
Pelvic Health Rehabilitation at Cheshire Medical Center (Keene, NH)
True North Pelvic PT (White River Junction, VT)
Placenta medicine
Kai Morrison - kai.morrison@gmail.com
Playgroups
Early Bird Infant Group (Northampton, MA)
Hadley Playgroup (Hadley, MA)
Northampton Parents Center (Northampton, MA)
Prouty Playgroup (Brattleboro, VT)
Postpartum doulas
Bree Watson - mama.treseo@gmail.com
Tender Courage Birth & Wellness (Turners Falls, MA)
Postpartum Support Groups
Moments of Meeting (Guilford, VT)
Prouty Parent-Baby Group (Brattleboro, VT)
Pregnancy groups
Prouty Pregnancy Group (Brattleboro, VT)
somatic Care
Ada Johnson (Brattleboro, VT)
Leela Kelley (Brattleboro, VT)
Sperm banks
Substance use
Mothers in Recovery at Cheshire Medical Center (Keene, NH)
New Beginnings (Northampton, MA) - for pregnant and postpartum women (up to 1 year postpartum) in recovery from opioid use