News & Events

Nurturing the Early Stages Together - Community After Birth launches the N.E.S.T. Program

January 20, 2025

Community After Birth is launching the N.E.S.T. Program - Nurturing the Early Stages Together. 

This program will connect families coping with mental health challenges, as well as military families, with postpartum doula support in the weeks following childbirth.

Postpartum doula care is not covered by most health insurance plans. Home visits from a postpartum doula through the N.E.S.T. program will be of no cost to participating individuals and families. 

This program is funded by grassroots donations and grant funding from Andrea's Wish Foundation. To help this vital support reach more parents, donate to Community After Birth.

Panel on Black Maternal Health

Anne Arundel County Health Department: Equity Series

April 28, 2025 | 3 PM

Join doula and Chair, Lauren Thompson, for a panel on Black Maternal Health alongside fellow health champions, Dr. Tope Bada and Donna Williams. Lauren will discuss expanding doula support and the NEST Program.

Preparing for Postpartum

Community After Birth at Discoveries Library 

March 19, 2025 | 11 AM - 12 PM

Discoveries: The Library at the Mall | Anne Arundel County Public Libraries | 2550 Annapolis Mall Rd, Annapolis, MD 21401

Join postpartum doula and Chair, Lauren Thompson, and she walks you through the different changes and phases the postpartum period can bring. Attendees will leave with Postpartum Plan printouts and other local resources to support their postpartum healing.

Doula Training for Community After Birth Doulas

Perinatal Obsessions and Psychiatric Emergencies: How to recognize them and how doulas can help?

January 16, 2025

Our first cohort of Community After Birth doulas completed their mental health training on perinatal Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and psychiatric emergencies lead by Dr. Lindsay Standeven, Baltimore-based Reproductive Psychiatrist with the Reproductive Psychiatry Collaborative.

The doulas learned about the nuances between intrusive thoughts and presentations of postpartum psychosis, discussed nonjudgemental communication styles, pathways for referral and emergent care in Maryland, and scope of practice.