Perinatal Support Services

What is Sweet Pea?

Our goal is to help families have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby. Sweet Pea provides support, education, and referrals to community resources during your pregnancy and during your baby’s first year. Our team consists of a nurse, nutritionist, and a case worker who specialize in working with young families. 

Sweet Pea FREE Classes & Groups

• Parent Cafes
• Infant Care & Safety Class: Learn how to safely care for your baby
• Birthing Class: Learn about the process of labor and delivery
• Breastfeeding Class
• Doulas & Donuts

Check out our event page for more information about these classes!

Sweet Pea provides you with:

• information about pregnancy and delivery
• counseling and support
• help in getting food and infant supplies, such as diapers
• transportation to medical appointments
• nutrition counseling
• education about breastfeeding
• help enroll in childbirth education classes
• mental health support

Meet our team

Interested or questions? Contact us today for more information!

Kathleen Babuska, LMSW
734.714.2258
kbabuska@cornerhealth.org

Extra Support

The Corner does a lot more than provide medical care. We also provide many services to support you through your pregnancy and beyond. These services include:

• Assistance applying for insurance for you and your baby.
• Social workers to support you as you manage your changing body, changing relationships and transition to your new role as a mother.
• Perinatal mental health services. 
• Nurses who will spend lots of time getting to know you and your partner or family, and will help with anything you need during your pregnancy.
• A nutritionist who will help you figure out what to eat to help with morning sickness or sugar problems, or just to keep you and your baby healthy.
• Safe Baby Classes.
• Sweet Pea Maternal Infant Health Program (MIHP)
• The Corner Store
• Most importantly, everyone at the Corner will get to know you, care about you and do everything they can to make sure you have a wonderful pregnancy and healthy baby. That's what it's all about, right?

WIC Services

What is WIC?

Birth doulas are labor support persons trained to provide continuous emotional and physical support and informational during labor and delivery.

What does a doula do?

• Physical support: creates a calm environment, assists with walking or water therapy, offers soothing touch
• Emotional support: is continuously present throughout labor and delivery, offers encouragement and empathy
• Informational support: suggests labor position to improve comfort, answers questions related to pregnancy, labor, breastfeeding, newborn care, make referrals as necessary

Your doula team:

• Meets with you several times before or after your prenatal visits at the Corner to discuss your birth preferences and any concerns or fears you may have.
• For two weeks before and after your estimated due date, we are on-call 24/7 in order to support you during the birth of your baby.
• When you go into labor, one of us will meet you at the hospital and provide continuous support until your baby arrives.
• Once your baby arrives, doulas provide support with bonding and breastfeeding while you are in the hospital and can provide postpartum support for up to a year after your baby is born.