- Milk Junkies – parenting and nursing from a trans perspective
- Meal Train – a simple way to help your friends organize a meal dropoff in the first weeks
- The Herb Room – Santa Cruz health business with vitamins and herbs available for sitz baths
- Nora’s Maternal Mental Wellness Group – run by a local doula by video on Monday mornings and Thursday evenings. Check the RCFam instagram for links.
- Raíces y Cariño Family Center – website (under construction), instagram
- Free Postnatal Yoga – check with your medical provider before starting any exercise routines
- Santa Cruz County Diversity Center – they have listings for QT-friendly or -focused businesses, and many regularly recurring support groups
- The Circle Family Center – instagram
- LGBTQ Perinatal Wellness Center – Oakland-based center offering care between the trying to conceive and postpartum periods
- Postpartum Support International – warmline and online support groups for people in the postpartum period
- Trans Fertility Co – resources for trans and nonbinary people and their care providers from author Trystan Reese
- Monterey County Behavioral Health – pages with resources and groups for Family Support, LGBTQ+, and Maternal Mental Health
- Birth Bruja – virtual events with a focus on global majority, survivor, and queer families. They regularly host decolonizing / decolonized parenting seminars, and have a queer non-birthing parent support group.
- social media groups
- Santa Cruz Mamas* – “a safe space for all caregivers that feel a Mamas* group is for them. This includes trans, genderqueer, and non-binary folx, and other caregivers of marginalized genders.”
- Santa Cruz Dads – “a forum for dads in Santa Cruz County and surrounding areas.”
- Santa Cruz Moms – “a supportive group for moms in Santa Cruz and surrounding areas”
- Santa Cruz Moms That Say “Fuck” – for Santa Cruz County moms that swear
- Trans and Intersex TTC and Pregnancy – discord server, contact for invite
- Parenting Theybies: using they/them/their pronouns for kids from the start – this “group is ONLY for parents who raise their babies using they/them (or other gender neutral) pronouns from the start. We welcome families at any stage of parenting (trying to conceive. pregnancy, infants, toddlers, school age children, teenagers, etc) as long as the parents are going to use they/them pronouns.”
- Non-binary Pregnancy and Parenting Support – exclusively for “trans non-binary, non-binary, genderqueer, and gender nonconforming humans that are pregnant, parenting, or planning on becoming parents”
Pomegranate Birth Companion 