Parent Craft

February 2020 February 2021. We’re still gathering! We can do hard things, together! Labor + Birth weekend classes on the calendar. Register on the website (link in bio). Sliding scale available. Love my students online, in person, or on the phone. Here to make space for you to grow and learn on your brave adventure

We miss holding your babies! But we hope you will give us the privilege of holding space for you in our next cycle of our Breastfeeding + Newborn Online Support Group which starts Tuesday Feb. 2nd 10-11:30am with Certified Lactation Counselor and Postpartum Doula @natashadillahunt and we are thrilled to be offering this class *BY DONATION* This class is a closed group of 6 parent-baby dyads and meets on 4 consecutive Tuesdays per cycle. Please spread the word to friends,... patients and anyone who could use some support in these unprecedented times of new parenthood. Continuity of accessible support is at the heart and soul of the community we strive to create at Parent Craft and we want you to know we’re still here: surviving, growing and evolving right along with you. Let’s do it together! Register on the website. Space is extremely limited so grab a spot ASAP! #parentcraft #parentcraftbrooklyn #newborn #newparent #postpartum #breastfeeding #village #support See more

As 2020 comes to a close, I'm practicing gratitude and looking for the light in these dark times. I am so grateful to the midwives on the front line of this pandemic at home, in birth centers and in the hospital. Bearing witness to midwives receiving their COVID-19 vaccines right now is EVERYTHING For those of you who don't know, these people have sacrificed *so much* to show up, hold space and preserve dignity in the most vulnerable moments of humanity. You are my daily ...inspiration! Midwives matter. Birth matters. Black lives matter. Human dignity matters. And to my brave students birthing in this pandemic: there is nothing you can't do in this world. Keep going. May we find some collective peace and light in 2021 (and find each other IRL!) Yours in hope for a New Year PS - there are too many beloved midwives to tag them all here, comment below a midwife hero you love! See more

It's not surprising that the "Midwife Model" is on this list! Midwives provide patient-centered care and listening is a core clinical approach. "The midwife model. Sometimes people talk to solve a person’s problem. The Rev. Margaret Guenther wrote that a good conversationalist in these cases is like a midwife, helping the other person give birth to her own child. That means spending a lot of time patiently listening to the other person teach herself through her narration, bringing forth her unthought thoughts, sitting with an issue as it slowly changes under the pressure of joint attention."

Our Breastfeeding + Newborn Support Group is back!!! Hope is alive this week and so is support in the fourth trimester! This pic is of our very first virtual support group that met during the peak of NYC COVID back in March with the amazing @benglis here meeting for the first time IRL We’re back on the calendar with ongoing 4-week cycles of personalized, intimate support groups facilitated by the incredible @natashadillahunt. Space is very limited (by design)so please preregister. Class fee $150 and sliding scale available, as with all of our classes, so please just ask! #parentcraft #parentcraftbrooklyn #fourthtrimester #newparent #newbaby #breastfeeding #chestfeeding #support #community #postpartum

So excited and privileged to be part of the launch event for @oulahealth A new collaborative-model practice based in Brooklyn offering hospital birth in 2021 with plans to open a freestanding birth center in Manhattan in the near future. Yay for birthing options, amirite?! . Launch Event Deets TOPIC: Planning for Pregnancy... We’re deep diving All The Things: - Before you start trying - Trying to get pregnant - I’m pregnant, now what? Weds Nov 11th 4-5pm EST Link to register is in the bio. Spread the word and come learn more about this exciting new horizon in the NYC birth landscape. Event is free, RSVP required. Join us! #parentcraft #parentcraftbrooklyn #oulahealth #midwives #collaboration See more