Maternal Mental Health Now

We’re proud to offer a 6-hour trauma-informed, justice-driven training built by and for the q***r and trans community.

Designed for birth workers, mental health clinicians, and care providers ready to show up fully for q***r, trans, and nonbinary folks across the perinatal journey.

✨ Real tools. Lived experience. Systemic analysis. Reflective practice.

✨ 6 CE hours for LMFTs, LPCCs, LCSWs, LEPs & psychologists (CA BBS & CA Board of Psychology)

✨ Free for q***r & trans community members

Head over to the link in bio to request your discount code
Because affirming care isn’t optional. It’s essential. 💜

Maternal mental health isn’t a side note: it’s essential care.

1 in 5 mothers will experience a perinatal mood or anxiety disorder like postpartum depression or anxiety.

Yet the majority go untreated, often because of stigma, lack of awareness, or simply not knowing where to turn.

That where we come in. Here at Maternal Mental Health NOW, your mental health matters, for you, and for your family and loved ones.

If you or someone you love is struggling, you don’t have to face it alone. We have plenty of resources and peer support groups to help you navigate this journey.

Tap the link in bio to learn more and find support.

Join us on Wednesday, May 20, 2026 for a powerful community convening centered on perinatal mental health, storytelling, healing, advocacy, and systems change. Together, we’ll uplift voices, build community, and move toward transformative care for Black mothers, birthing people, and families.

🗓 Wednesday, May 20, 2026
⏰ 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM
📍 Wellnest — 3787 S Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA

This gathering is for community members, advocates, providers, birth workers, and changemakers committed to maternal mental health equity.

Let’s turn pain into power together. 🤎

MentalHealthAwareness

As we close out our 2026 MMHN Webinar Series, Navigating the Journey: Disability Perspectives & Perinatal Mental Health, we invite you to join us for one final and incredibly important conversation. 💙

Our final session will feature Corey Axelrod presenting:

Delivering Culturally Appropriate Services to Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals

📅 Monday, May 18, 2026
⏰ 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM PST

This session will explore the importance of accessibility, cultural responsiveness, and inclusive communication practices when supporting Deaf and Hard of Hearing individuals within perinatal mental health spaces. As providers, advocates, and community members, continuing to learn how to better serve diverse communities is essential to creating equitable and affirming care for all.

We are so grateful to everyone who has joined us throughout this webinar series and helped foster thoughtful dialogue around disability perspectives in perinatal mental health. This final webinar is one you will not want to miss.

Information to know:

• The webinar will be recorded and available for 1 week following the live broadcast.

• If you are unable to attend live, please still register, the recording link will be emailed to all registered participants afterward.

• Live transcriptions/captions will be active during the webinar to support accessibility.

🔗 Register now using the link in our bio!

Providers play a critical role in supporting perinatal mental health and having the right tools matters. 💛

From culturally responsive toolkits and bilingual educational materials to self-paced trainings and screening resources, Maternal Mental Health NOW offers free and accessible materials designed to support healthcare providers, birth workers, mental health professionals, and community organizations caring for birthing families.

Explore resources including:

✨ Perinatal Mental Health Toolkits
✨ Q***r & Trans Perinatal Mental Health Resources
✨ PMH 101 & 201 Trainings
✨ Screening Tools like the PHQ-9 & EPDS
✨ Multilingual brochures and patient education materials

Together, we can help create more informed, compassionate, and equitable care for all birthing people.

Explore the full library of materials & resources at the link in bio or visit:
https://maternalmentalhealthnow.org/materials-resources/

Mother’s Day can hold many emotions at once. 💐

Today, we honor:
• those longing to become mothers/ birthing parents
• those navigating difficult relationships with their children
• those grieving the loss of their mothers/ birthing parents
• those grieving the loss of a child
• mother figures in every form
• those who never had the chance to know their mothers

For many in the maternal mental health community, this day may bring joy, grief, anger, love, loneliness, gratitude or all of them at the same time.

Whatever this day feels like for you, your experience is valid. You deserve gentleness, support, and space for your emotions. 🤍

You are not alone today.

Whatever resource you may need, head over to our website to get the support you need today. Head over to our link in bio.

🎭 Some stories deserve to be told out loud. We’re excited to celebrate Alice Cutler, former participant of Baby Bumps, in Inconceivable at this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival. Through storytelling, performance, and vulnerability, productions like this help shine a light on the complexities of fertility, identity, grief, hope, and the deeply human experiences that so many carry quietly.

If you’re in Los Angeles, come support independent theater and a powerful creative voice in our community. 💛

📍 The Other Space Theater at The Actors Company
916 N Formosa Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90046

🗓 PERFORMANCE DATES
• Sunday, June 7 at 3:30 PM (Pay What You Can Preview)
• Friday, June 12 at 6:30 PM
• Thursday, June 18 at 5:00 PM

🎟 Tickets: $15

Stories create connection and connection creates healing. We love seeing members of our community turning lived experience into art that opens conversations and reminds others they are not alone. Purchase your ticket in the link in bio.

Maternal Mental Health Day is a reminder that perinatal depression and anxiety are real, treatable, and nothing to be ashamed of.

Did you know that 1 in 4 people in LA County experience depression during pregnancy or postpartum. And disproportionately, this affects Black birthing people and Medi-Cal patients.

✨Postpartum depression
✨Pregnancy anxiety
✨Intrusive thoughts
✨Overwhelm or numbness
✨Difficulty bonding

This is more common than you think—and help is available.
In LA County:

🔗 Maternal Mental Health NOW Resource Directory (on our website)

📞 Postpartum Support International: 1-800-944-4773

📱 988 Su***de & Crisis Lifeline (24/7)

Your mental health matters just as much as your physical health.

Link in bio to learn more about what resources are available for you.

Tomorrow’s your reminder to move with intention 🤍

Our Monthly Wellness Webinar is back, and this month we’re focusing on Movement, because caring for your mental health doesn’t always mean doing more… sometimes it means gently reconnecting with your body.

Whether it’s stretching, walking, or simply breathing with awareness, this session will offer accessible ways to support your well-being through movement—wherever you are in your journey.

✨ Join us tomorrow
✨ All are welcome
✨ Come as you are

Reserve your spot through the link in our bio.