Breastfeeding Support Group
with Stephanie Heintzeler
Join our Lactation Support Group!
Our drop-in support group is a warm and welcoming space where you can find guidance for many common breastfeeding challenges. Whether you’re looking for help with latching and positioning, soothing sore nipples, resolving plugged ducts, ensuring your baby is getting enough milk, building a strong milk supply, pumping tips, getting more sleep or preparing to return to work, we’re here for you! Come and go anytime between 2-3:30pm.
We offer the use of a specialized scale to weigh your baby before and after feeding, helping you feel confident about their intake.
For more complex or medical lactation concerns, personalized support is best. Stephanie is available for private home visits to provide the detailed care you need- inquire for booking!
Stephanie is in-network with CIGNA. All IBCLCs and interns are fully vaccinated.
Thursdays between 2-3:30 PM
November 7, 14, 21 & December 5, 12, 19
IMPORTANT: Buying a class doesn't automatically enroll you. After purchase, please either sign up via our schedule page or email info@prenatalyogacenter.com for help. Stop in anytime between 2-3:30 PM!
Cancellation Policy
Cancellation Policy: Drop in's must be cancelled at least 8 hours prior to class to avoid being charged.
Accessibility note: Our yoga studio is located on the second floor of a walk-up building. We offer a variety of bolsters, blankets, blocks, back jacks, and a few birth balls for comfortable seating.
Meet Your Facilitator
Please note: Stephanie is an active midwife and doula. In the event she is called in to a birth or is otherwise unavailable, a substitute will be sent in her place.
Stephanie Heintzeler
Stephanie is a German-educated midwife and acupuncturist, as well as a US-certified birth and postpartum doula and lactation consultant (IBCLC). She was born in New York City but raised in Germany, where she found her enthusiasm for midwifery already when she was 12 years old (thanks to her “not-so-little-anymore” brother who was born then. She became a midwife at the midwifery school Black Forest in 2000 and worked in Frankfurt for several years as well as in Munich from 2008-2012.
Stephanie cares for women with all kinds of births- whether her clients choose a hospital birth, birthing center or home birth; she wants them to follow their own intuition about which birth place feels best. Stephanie has seen it all- breech births, many successful VBACs (Vaginal Birth after Cesarean), planned and unplanned c-sections, vaginal twin births and LGBTQ-families.
With her “former midwife-approach” her clients feel taken care of from a holistic-medical perspective. She uses breathing techniques, TENS and positions to open the pelvis as well as her acupuncture background and massage techniques to make birthing as comfortable as possible- whether it is a natural or medicated birth. Using evidence-birth-techniques she and her doula-partner Alice (who is a midwife from the UK) make sure their clients have continuous support during pregnancy, birth and the postpartum weeks. After birth she takes care of her clients for several weeks postpartum to ensure a smooth transition into parenthood, breastfeeding, recovering from birth and their new life as a family.
As of 2023 Stephanie has delivered over 2,500 babies and attended over 3,100 births. She is the founder of the New York Baby where she puts expecting parents/mothers in touch with doulas and baby nurses.
Accessibility note: Our yoga studio is located on the second floor of a walk-up building. We offer a variety of bolsters, blankets, blocks, back jacks, and a few birth balls for comfortable seating.