Brooklyn · In person and virtual · Booking fall and winter births
You can read everything and still walk into a room where decisions about your body get made faster than you can think. What helps is not more information. It is one person who has done this hundreds of times, who knows your whole story, and who is still there at week ten when the house goes quiet.
Fort Greene · Clinton Hill · Bed-Stuy and nearby · Virtual anywhere
A doula for the day of. A pediatrician for the baby. A lactation consultant if you can get an appointment. A postpartum group at six weeks, if you can get out of the house. Each of them meets a slice of you.
And you carry the thread between them. You explain your birth again. You explain the feeding again. You explain how you are doing again, to someone new, at the exact moment you have the least capacity to explain anything.
Nobody has the whole picture, so nobody can tell you what is actually going on.
I am the one who remembers.
I am one person, and I hold the whole arc. What we work out in your third trimester is the same thread I am still pulling at week ten. You never start over, and you never have to catch anyone up.
In the order you will need it.
Not a birth plan. An education. What your body is doing and why, what the interventions are and what they are for, what the words mean when they are said quickly in a room you cannot leave. Most fear in birth is not fear of pain. It is fear of not knowing what is going on.
And about what has to be true beforehand for it to be possible. Some of that is knowledge. Some of it is fear you have not looked at directly, or a story about your body you have been carrying for a long time. That work is not optional and it cannot be done in labor. It is done now, together.
"I was determined to do a hospital VBAC with minimal intervention and Jen was instrumental in helping me design and realize my birth plan. She helped me get connected to more supportive care when I was getting pushback."
A second-time mother · VBACNothing happens to your body without your agreement. That is already true, and it is routinely treated as a formality by people moving quickly through a shift. What is missing is never permission. It is information, timing, and the words to use in a room that is not slowing down. We go through the real decision points ahead of time, and we rehearse the sentences until they sound like you, so that when it matters you are not deciding under pressure with half the facts. Your partner learns them too.
"I knew she was strong enough for me to lean on, but would not overpower my voice. She was supportive of my evidence-based values but also challenged me to consider some of my choices in a different way."
Nicolette Z. · hospital VBACIn the room, for as long as it takes, whatever direction it goes. Not directing your birth and not managing it. Holding the space you prepared for, so you can be in it.
"Despite my birth not going the way I envisioned, Jen stood by me as my advocate and partner. Her guidance, support, understanding and kindness rooted the foundation of my birth experience in love."
Jessica G.This is the part nobody prepares you for. I come to your home. Your recovery, hands on. Feeding, honestly and without judgement about how it goes. Food that actually rebuilds a body rather than food that is simply food. And a real conversation about how you are doing, from someone who will notice if the answer is not fine.
Rhythm. A shape to the days. Sleep foundations that hold up because you understand them rather than because someone handed you a schedule. This is where most support has already gone home, and it is where I do my best work.
Most partners are not disengaged. They are unbriefed. They watch someone they love go through something enormous, they have no idea what would actually be useful, and so they hover, or they go quiet, or they reach for their phone.
I bring your partner in deliberately. What to watch for. What to say and when to say nothing. What to do with their hands. Which questions to ask in the room when you are somewhere else entirely. How to protect your recovery in the weeks after, when you will not ask for what you need.
It changes the birth, and it changes the first months more than anything else I do.
You have read a great deal and still feel unprepared, because reading is not the same as being ready. You want someone who has done this hundreds of times.
You do not want a roster, a rotation, or a backup you have never met. You want the person you talked to in your second trimester to be the person in the room.
You already suspect the hard part is not the birth. You want someone who is still there at week eight, when the visitors have stopped and it has gotten quiet.
And who it is not for. If what you want is hands and hours, someone to hold the baby while you sleep and hand them back in the morning, there are excellent people in Brooklyn who do that well and I will happily point you to them. That is a real service and it is not what this is. This is slower, it asks something of you, and it is built so that you need me less as it goes.
These are starting points, not a menu. Every number is a from, because on a consult I build the real container around what you need and what I can genuinely hold that season. I take a small number of families at a time, and I hold a named backup for true emergencies, someone you will have met, though in ten years of this work she has almost never been needed.
Birth · Threshold
The birth, held well. I am with you for your birth, on call from thirty-seven weeks. Two prenatal sessions, one virtual and one in your home, and one in-home visit in the early days after. For families whose recovery is already covered and who want a person in the room.
The birth and the landing. For families who understand the hard part starts when the door closes. Four prenatal sessions, weekly mapping, classes for you and your partner, a ritual kit, meals in the first weeks, and hands-on recovery work at home.
Deeper preparation and a protected beginning. Eight prenatal sessions, then the first fifteen days held closely, with three weeks of prepared meals and multiple in-home recovery sessions.
The full forty days. Ten prenatal sessions, six weeks of weekly in-home care, nourishment throughout, and guided rebuilding after your clearance.
The deepest holding I offer, and I hold it for one family at a time. The full twelve weeks, weekly in-home care, nourishment throughout, overnight support placed where it matters most, and a direct line to me.
Postpartum only · without birth support
The first fifteen days, protected. Rest as the medicine, with hands-on recovery, food, and someone who will notice how you are actually doing.
Six weeks of weekly in-home recovery. Core and pelvic rebuilding, cesarean recovery, feeding, food, and emotional integration. With overnight support, nights are placed in the early weeks where they carry the most, and taper as you steady.
The whole fourth trimester, held end to end. Weekly care through full recovery, nourishment, sleep foundations built so they hold because you understand them. With overnight support, nights are front-loaded and end before I do.
Not in Brooklyn, or want the birth to be yours and your partner's alone? I also work with families anywhere, virtually, from birth preparation through sleep. The virtual containers live here. Itemized invoices are provided if you are seeking reimbursement through a health or family benefit.
Reweaving is my recovery ritual. Hands-on, nervous-system-led work for knitting body and self back together after birth.
Weekly mapping is a living week-by-week plan that adapts as you go, rather than a birth plan written once and filed.
A ritual kit is a set of physical objects to mark the prenatal, birth, and postnatal thresholds.
More than ten years of this work and over 250 families. Birth doula, childbirth educator, and pediatric sleep consultant, which means the person preparing you for birth is the same person who understands why your six week old will not go down. One person who has done this many times, so that you only have to do it once.
Booking early is not about securing a spot, though spots are genuinely limited. It is that the work that makes a difference happens before labor. The education, the fear work, the decision rehearsal, your partner knowing what to do. None of that can be done in a rush at thirty-nine weeks.
I take a small number of families each season, because a person who is on call for eight births is not really on call for any of them.
Tell me where you are, what you are afraid of, and what you want this to look like. I will tell you honestly whether I am the right person, and what I would do if I were you.