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Enjoy a healthy pregnancy, calm birth, and peaceful postpartum experience with help from The Nurturing Root. We are honored to offer placenta encapsulation services, natural childbirth education, and postpartum doula care to Maryland and Ohio families.

Placenta Encapsulation Services
Welcoming a new baby is a joyous occasion, but this exciting time of transition can be challenging. You are recovering from birth, caring for a fragile newborn, and finding a new balance while adjusting to changing rhythms. Our placenta encapsulation services can help facilitate a calmer, more peaceful, and restorative postpartum experience.

Birth Boot Camp Childbirth Education
We are thrilled to offer families the Birth Boot Camp® natural childbirth education series! This comprehensive 10-class course is designed for couples planning an amazing pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding journey. Birth Boot Camp® is modern and fun. The thoughtful, evidenced-based curriculum is a collaboration from midwives, doulas, lactation consultants, chiropractors, nutritionists, and a community of birthing experts. Our training can help you have an intentional, empowering, and positive pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experience.

Postpartum Doula Care
A postpartum doula is a trained professional that provides guidance, encouragement, and practical assistance for families during the newborn period. We have a wealth of experience regarding postpartum adjustment, including: normal newborn behavior, infant sleep, postnatal recovery, and breastfeeding. We will provide you with non-medical, evidenced-based information and care, so you can feel confident making the best decisions for your family.  We offer postpartum planning classes and full service, in-home support