Prepared Parent Bundle

Prepared Parent Bundle

Babies don’t come out holding a buyer’s guide! So let us help you prepare for birth and beyond with our Prepared Parent Bundle. These essential workshops will help you prepare for the unknown of labor and birth and equip you with the knowledge and confidence to care for your newborn. You will feel empowered and ready to thrive in early parenthood.

 

This bundle includes:

  • Childbirth Education (Note: Choose between Childbirth Express and Childbirth Preparation below)!
  • Infant Safety & CPR
  • Newborn Care & Lactation

Childbirth Education

Upcoming Dates (Childbirth Education Express): March 22 | June 7

Upcoming Dates (Childbirth Education Preparation): February 21 | March 28 | May 2

Our Childbirth Education course is available in two formats:

  1. Childbirth Express (3 hours): This express childbirth class provides a clear overview of the birthing process. You’ll learn how to recognize the signs that your body is preparing for labor, how to know when you’re actually in labor, understand the stages and phases of labor, and know when it’s time to go to the hospital.
  2. Childbirth Preparation (6 hours): In this course, you’ll gain a clear understanding of childbirth: when to go to the hospital, what to expect in each phase and stage of labor, and how to navigate common medical interventions with knowledge and confidence. You’ll also learn how to ask the right questions to ensure your care aligns with your values and preferences. 

Upcoming Dates: March 1 (SOLD OUT) | April 19 | May 17

This Infant Safety & CPR workshop is for expectant parents or parents of babies up to 1 year of age. This class is a lively combination of lecture and demonstration and will cover infant CPR protocols and techniques, plus relief of choking for ages 0-12 months, car seat safety and first aid. There will be for questions, answers and discussion.  Give yourself an advantage when creating a safe environment for your family: prepare for emergencies in our CPR and Safety classes.

Our instructors pride themselves in teaching the most up to date protocols in the field of CPR of both the American Heart Association The American Red Cross.

Note: This is not a CPR certification course.

This class helps parents and caregivers care for and protect infants and children. You’ll learn:

  • Basic infant (0-12 months) and child (1 year through puberty) CPR.
  • Techniques to help your infant or child in a choking emergency.
  • Basic first aid to keep your child out of the emergency room.
  • Key measures you can take to make traveling in a car safer for your infant and child.
 

*Please note: This workshop is NOT a CPR certification course.

Upcoming Dates: March 21 | April 18 | May 16

Our Newborn Care & Lactation Fundamentals class helps expecting families become familiar with the basics of infant care & body feeding in the early days and weeks after birth to start with confidence!

Topics covered will include:

  • Understanding normal infant behavior, communication, appearance and sleep patterns
  • Understanding common newborn procedures in the hospital
  • Understanding the basics of soothing, diapering, umbilical cord care, bathing, and assessment of your baby
  • Newborn warning signs and when to call the pediatrician
  • Bottlefeeding best practices, tips and techniques, burping, bottle cleaning, etc. and how to know if the baby is getting enough
  • How to get breastfeeding/chestfeeding off to the best start
  • How to help your infant latch-on and correct positioning
  • How to know if the baby is getting enough milk
  • How to avoid common lactation problems and when to call a lactation consultant

Details (including times) are available on each individual workshop’s page. Please note our cancellation policies here.

Option 1: Includes Childbirth Express

$729 PER TWO ATTENDEES

IN STUDIO

Option 2: Includes Childbirth Preparation

$829 PER TWO ATTENDEES

IN STUDIO

MEET THE INSTRUCTORS

Please note: Many of our instructors are active birth workers and therefore subject to change. In the event your scheduled teacher is called in to a birth, a substitute will be sent in their place. 

Janet Bogardus

Coming from a dance background, Janet has always been interested in movement. After giving birth to her daughters, she found the experiences profound and decided to deepen her understanding of birth by becoming a certified childbirth educator. From 2006 – 2020, Janet was on faculty at Mt. Sinai West (formerly Roosevelt Hospital) and currently teaches online childbirth education, comfort measures, and lactation classes for Mt. Sinai in NYC.

Janet has been a labor support doula since 2008 and earned her lactation counselor credential in 2014. She co-founded NYC Birth and Baby with Danielle Jackson and has helped thousands of families in the metropolitan area. A longtime yogi, Janet is also certified in prenatal yoga and previously taught at the Prenatal Yoga Center! Recently, Janet has been consulting with Maven, an online healthcare platform, assisting families nationwide.

When Janet isn’t helping people welcome babies into their lives, she enjoys hiking, dancing, writing, and spending time with her actor husband and children. Learn more about Janet here!

Robin Douthit

Robin is a seasoned birth doula, Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator, Body Ready Birth Pro® and Lactation Counselor with over 20 years of experience.

 

After experiencing two very different births, she became passionate about empowering women with knowledge and tools for a confident, informed birth. She teaches childbirth education, breastfeeding, and newborn care at NYU Langone, Birth Day Presence/Boober, and privately.

 

Robin has served as President of Lamaze International and is currently the Program Director for NYC Lamaze. A graduate of Adelphi University and NYU, she lives in Manhattan and is dedicated to helping women trust their bodies during pregnancy and childbirth.

Vanessa Anton

has worked with families as a doula, a childbirth educator, and as a parenting educator for more 15 years. After completing her medical training in the emergency care field, she embarked on making CPR more accessible to families and started Common Sense CPR 10 years ago. Vanessa is a certified Childbirth Educator, Certified Doula, Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner, E.M.T., American Heart Association B.L.S. Instructor, American Red Cross Instructor and Child Passenger Safety Technician.

 

Geoff Gohacki

has been a professional chef and teacher for over 15 years and first became interested in emergency response after preforming first aid on one of his students. Geoff has two young boys who like to live on the wild side. Because of this, Geoff has focused on child safety and responding to emergencies involving children. A student before a teacher, Geoff is constantly researching and learning the newest techniques in CPR, AED, First Aid and Child Passenger Safety. Geoff is an American Heart Association BLS Instructor and an American Red Cross certified instructor of CPR, AED, and First Aid. He is also a nationally certified Child Passenger Safety Technician.

Robin is Lactation Counselor certified through the Healthy Children Project, an educational program prominent in the field of evidence based breastfeeding research and practice. She’s a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator and teaches childbirth education, breastfeeding and newborn care classes at NYU Langone Medical Center, Tribeca Pediatrics, Birth Day Presence/Boober, as well as privately and online (virtual classes). Robin has had the pleasure of participating on the Pregnancy, Health, and Wellness panel and as a “Meet The Experts” speaker at the New York Baby Show for the past 2 years. She is honored to serve as an Educator Director on Lamaze International’s Board of Directors and co-lead educator training seminars for NYC Lamaze. She has also served on the Board of Directors with Chocolate Milk Cafe National.

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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.

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