Baby & Family
Baby and Family Services for New Parents in Chicago
Your new baby didn’t come with instructions? No worries! There are local resources to help you learn more about newborn care, health and development. Expectant Mother's Guide allows new moms and dads to browse parent coaching and classes in Chicago, child care options, baby gyms and music classes, babyproofers, and other businesses focused on new moms and dads and their babies.
Baby Music, Play & Language Classes
Be By Baby!
Be By Baby is both a retail and resource center for families in the Chicagoland area. We offer a huge variety of clinics and classes (babywearing, infant CPR, infant massage and more), so parents can get the help they need or just to have fun bonding with baby through music and baby signing classes.
Gymboree Play & Music
Gymboree Play & Music is the global leader in classes for children 0-5 year old. Choose from Play & Learn, Music, Art, Sports, and Preschool Readiness classes that help your child develop socially, physically, and intellectually in a fun, safe environment. Try a free preview class today!
Language Stars
Play-based foreign language programs offered in fifteen convenient locations throughout the Chicago area. We offer full immersion classes in Spanish, Chinese, French, Italian, and German starting as early as one year, because studies show the earlier children are introduced to language the easier it is to learn.
Parent Classes & Coaching
Bellybum Boutique
Bellybum Boutique is a retail and educational resource center providing families with fun and educational classes for parents. As well as, free workshops and lectures for parents on topics such as green parenting, child development and pediatric care, and planning for your child's education.
Galter LifeCenter
Galter LifeCenter wants to make the transition in parenthood as easy as possible. Along with Swedish Covenant Hospital we offer classes on newborn care, family CPR & First Aid, breastfeeding, as well as, a class with suggestions and tips from a pediatrician to help expectant parents prepare for a successful transition home with their newborn.
Smart Love Family Services
Smart Love Family Services helps children, parents, and couples achieve greater inner well-being, sustain closer relationships, and reach their full potentials in life. Our services are based on Smart Love™ principles and include counseling, parent coaching, and parent education classes. Receive advice on baby’s sleeping, crying, feeding and developmental milestones.
Pediatricians / Child Health Resources
2300 Children's Plaza
Chicago, Illinois 60614
1-800- KIDS DOC (513 7362)
Children's Memorial Hospital
After 130 years of treating the most critically ill children in Chicago and beyond, Children's Memorial will become Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago on June 9, 2012. Learn more about the move and our state-of-the-art facility that will allow us to provide better, more efficient care to every child who needs us.
Lincoln Park/SoNo
1460 N. Halsted Street, Suite 502
Chicago, IL 60642
Northbrook
1535 Lake Cook Road, Suite 301
Northbrook, IL 60062
312-926-7337
Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group
A newborn baby will bring much joy and excitement into your home, along with many questions and concerns. Your child deserves the best of care all the way from infancy to young adulthood. At Northwestern Memorial Physician Group Pediatrics, that means a full spectrum of services for all children at every stage of growth and development.
Other Baby Resources
4707 N. Broadway, 3rd Floor
Chicago, IL 60640
773-856-5525
Cambridge Nanny Group
We're revolutionizing the nanny selection process. View prerecorded virtual interviews when it's convenient for you and meet only with the preselected candidates you choose. Our loving and professional nannies and caregivers are available part-time, full-time or on-call, either on a live-in or live-out basis.
COUNTRY Financial® – Michael Basile
I am a fully trained, certified, and licensed Financial Representative for COUNTRY® Financial. What this means to you is, I can handle all of your insurance and financial service needs. My goal is to make sure you have the answers you need to make informed decisions about your insurance and investments.
Focuscope
Expecting or have young children? How would you like the opportunity to be paid cash to evaluate common products like Diapers, or Baby Lotion? Toys, or TV programs? FOCUSCOPE is a marketing research firm, with 30 years of experience in gathering opinions from parents in Chicago about a wide variety of baby and child products and services.
Green Lady Cleaning
Spend more time with your little one by spending less time cleaning. Green Lady Cleaning serves the Chicago and the Western Suburbs families with all natural plant based cleaning products and services that leave your home pristine and healthy. Call to set up your monthly, bi-monthly or weekly cleaning today!
Kids In Danger
Kids In Danger (KID) is a nonprofit organization that takes a proactive approach to child safety through programs to educate parents and caregivers about unsafe baby products. Attend workshops, learn about baby product dangers, research current products with safety hazards and sign up to receive notices for safety recalls.
