Support & resources
You shouldn’t have to go searching for help in the hardest season of your life.
So we gathered it. The lines to call, the signs worth knowing, and support close to home, all in one place.
For every season of motherhood
If you need someone right now
If today feels like too much, please reach out. Someone is awake and ready.
These are free, confidential lines staffed by trained counselors. Some are built specifically for pregnancy, new motherhood, and the years that follow. You don’t need the right words. You just have to reach out.
Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
For any moment of crisis, whether you’re thinking about harming yourself or you just can’t hold it on your own. Free and confidential, day or night.
National Maternal Mental Health Hotline
Built for pregnant and new parents. Trained counselors offer real-time support, resources, and referrals in English and Spanish, day or night.
Postpartum Support International
For ongoing support beyond a crisis, PSI is a national resource that connects you to local providers, support groups, and coordinators who understand exactly what you’re carrying.
VillageFor is here for the weeks in between, but we’re not a crisis service. If you’re in immediate danger or thinking about harming yourself or your baby, please call 911 or use one of the crisis lines above. You deserve real help, right now.
Know the signs
It helps to have a name for what you’re feeling.
Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders are the most common complication of pregnancy and birth, and they are treatable. This isn’t a diagnosis. It’s language, so you can recognize yourself and know it’s worth saying out loud.
Perinatal depression
“I should be happy. Why do I feel so empty?”
Sadness, numbness, or hopelessness that doesn’t lift, during pregnancy or any time in the first year after. It can look like exhaustion, irritability, or losing interest in the things you used to love.
Perinatal anxiety
“I can’t stop the racing thoughts.”
Constant worry, a racing heart, trouble sleeping even when the baby sleeps. A sense that something bad is about to happen that you can’t talk yourself out of.
Postpartum OCD
“These intrusive thoughts terrify me.”
Unwanted, intrusive thoughts, often scary images about harm coming to the baby, paired with rituals or checking to keep everyone safe. Having the thoughts does not mean you’ll act on them.
Birth trauma & PTSD
“I keep reliving what happened.”
Flashbacks, nightmares, or feeling on-edge after a frightening birth, a NICU stay, or a loss. Your body remembers, even when you wish it wouldn’t.
Grief & loss
“No one talks about this.”
Miscarriage, stillbirth, TFMR, infertility. The grief is real and it deserves support, even when the world acts like it should have been brief.
Postpartum psychosis
“Something feels truly wrong.”
Rare but serious. Confusion, seeing or hearing things, or feeling out of touch with reality. This is a medical emergency.
Call 988 or 911 nowNone of this means you’re broken. It means you’re carrying something real, and help works.
Local support
Find maternal mental health resources in your state.
Crisis lines, perinatal mental health centers, support groups, and provider directories, organized state by state. Because where you live should never decide whether you get help.
The simplest resource
Knowing how you’re actually doing is its own kind of support.
VillageFor checks in every week using a science-backed assessment built with perinatal researchers, then explains what your answers mean in plain language. If your check-ins ever suggest you need more, we’ll say so clearly and point you to real help.
From the Village
Words for the seasons nobody warned you about.
The Village Letter
Something gentle in your inbox.
A note from us every so often. Honest, unhurried, and never another thing to keep up with. Reflections, resources, and reminders that you’re not doing this alone.
Join the Letter →The Village Journal
Read about what you’re living.
Plain-language writing on postpartum mental health, infertility, loss, NICU, and the parts of motherhood that go unspoken, written with the same care we built the app with.
Read the Journal →
You don’t have to know what to ask for. You just have to reach out.
VillageFor shows up for the weeks nobody else did. Let us be one of your places.