Hi ! My name is Shane and I am the Melanated Mermaid Doula Services. I am a trained Fullspectrum Doula with a focus on Birth and Postpartum services. I am also open to supporting abortion related services. I have a love for birth and preparing for the beautiful event. My passion with working with expectant families is to help them connect with one another, prepare and feel confident during and after their births. I want the people I work with to gain a confidence with their bodies but also feel safe and secure in advocating for their needs during pregnancy, labor and postpartum. I have a passion for nutrition and movement so I am sure to include different health measures and these two factors in my services as well. I have a degree in Psychology from Syracuse University and take what I learn from my formal training in the classroom and incorporate it in how I handle and care for my growing families during our time together. I love to laugh and bring joy in homes of the people I work with and hope that along with educating you on your body and body's super powers I can also bring comfort and confidence on this birth journey.

I am Judene Williams from New York. I am a Certified Newborn Care Specialist with certification in Sleep training and CPR. I am patient, calm and professional with a twist of friendly personality. I believe emotional support is key in assisting with taking great care of your newborn. I travel for work so there’s nowhere too far for me to assist on that wonderful journey.

Zen Holmes is the founder of Comfy Momma Prenatal and Postpartum Support and offers doula services, lactation counseling, prenatal massage, prenatal yoga and guided meditations aimed at reducing fear and preparing the mind/body to relax during childbirth. She also offers childbirth education, newborn care and breastfeeding classes. Zen is a Midwifery Assistant and a Midwifery Student at Commonsense Childbirth School of Midwifery. Zen is a DONA certified birth doula and a Carriage House Birth trained postpartum doula. She is a Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC) and a Certified Integrative Lactation and Feeding Specialist (ILFS). Zen received her certification as an Evidence Based Birth Instructor and offers to most up to date research in her classes. She is also trained in hypnobirthing and mindfulness. She uses visualizations, massage and sound therapy to help laboring moms feel grounded, relaxed and confident during the birthing process. Zen Holmes has been a NYS licensed massage therapist, specializing in prenatal and medical massage for 20 years. She is also a Reiki practitioner. She has 3 pregnancy massage certifications (MotherMassage, Loving Pregnancy Massage, and Bodywork for the Childbearing. She is also a proud mother of 5 amazing adults.

My name is Claudia Batista Santos and I am an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC). I obtained my degree in Dietetics from Lehman College. I also have a Masters in Healthcare Administration. I work as a Breastfeeding Coordinator in a NYC WIC Program. I have completed a wide variety of ongoing provider education and advancement in caring for the breastfeeding/chestfeeding dyad and can speak Spanish fluently. I am very passionate about all things moms and babies, but education about breastfeeding/chestfeeding is my love. I’ve lived in NYC since I moved to the USA from the Dominican Republic when I was 14 years old. When I’m not helping families with lactation, you can find me traveling to different countries and discovering new flavors. I look forward to meeting you and your growing family

I have been a personal trainer for pregnant and postpartum women in New York City for over 7 years, and have I realized that so many women have major questions about their bodies and fitness that they are not finding answers to. My mission is to make safe and effective pre and post natal fitness accessible for all. I have created an online streaming platform for pre and post natal workouts through my company Her Move, I provide consultations, and have limited availability for private training.

My name is Kayon also known as Shawna, I’m a patient loving and adaptable individual who loves working with babies.

I am Thandia from the island Jamaica,A Certified Newborn Care Specialist,Sleep Trained Certified and CPR certified.Migrated 10 years ago as a Social Worker where my passion was to serve.My love for newborns is natural from my childhood,A mother of 6 and 2 grandkids,knowing the stress of motherhood and unto the adjustment stage I knew my help would be needed in your homes,My experiences where self taught independently when I figured this was my career and upgraded myself getting trained and certified.I love having new parents anticipate learning from me while asking tons of questions and seeing their trust is placed in my hands with their beautiful little babies.At the end of my service I need to know families are back to normalcy while their bundle of joy is on schedule,Sleep trained,safe and is growing healthy at the same time.In my spare time I read books,enjoy my boys and play family games . My Philosophy is "Life is great when you be the one to make it beautiful"

My name is Alecia I am a gentle, caring, nurturing, and understanding individual who practices patience, kindness, honest and compassion. I am a certified newborn care specialist /nanny over 10 years experience I am very reliable, professional, and responsible. I use my knowledge and experience to ensure that I give the best care possible.

Shoott is a female-run startup dedicated to providing beautiful and affordable 30-min outdoor photo sessions to clients looking to capture all of life's most special moments, both big and small. We offer our, 5-star rated, Insta-worthy sessions at hotspots and local parks with vetted professional photographers from your community. Sessions are free to book, you receive a digital gallery of 40+ high-res, lightly edited photos in 3-5 days, and you only pay for photos you love at $15/photo or less!

Misty is a Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula (via DONA and Lifespan Doulas) as well as a Certified Lactation Counselor, a Certified Hypnobabies Doula, Newborn Care Specialist and an Integrative Wellness Coach. She approaches each stage of pregnancy and postpartum with a holistic mindset. Misty strives to provide her clients with a warm and supportive space, along with tools to instill confidence, while they navigate this new phase of motherhood. She is also a trained Spinning Babies doula and yoga instructor.

I am passionate about helping people have a positive pregnancy and birth experience. I believe that with the right support and team, pregnancy, labor, and delivery can be a special and memorable experience. My background is in statistics and technology, so I'm excited about supporting birthing people with research-backed and evidence-based recommendations in addition to emotional and intuitive support. I live in New York City with my husband and our 15-year-old Yorkie, Mercedes.

Olivia Bergeron, LCSW is a psychotherapist and parent coach who helps parents navigate the huge changes that come with having a child. Whether you're experiencing a sense of overwhelm, stress and anxiety during or after having a baby, or you've run out of ideas about how to manage your toddler's (or big kid's!) tantrums, Olivia works with you to create lasting change. She does this by providing clients with therapy or coaching or a hybrid of both. Olivia is a mom to twins and a singleton, so she understands the demands that come with parenting in New York City. Once her children arrived, Olivia realized that many women and men were not getting the help and support they needed to live in a balanced, joyful way. She heard from parents that becoming a mother or father was unendingly frustrating, difficult and just not the way they had imagined it. "Why didn't anyone tell me it would be this hard?" was a frequently heard refrain. And so, Mommy Groove Therapy & Parent Coaching is dedicated to creating happy, healthy families. Olivia offers help, whether you are seeking to make changes in your life, need to address anxiety/depression, or wish that you had a brighter north star when it comes to parenting. There is no need to go it alone.

I specialize in perinatal mental health, supporting individuals and couples through the complexity of growing a family including fertility and ART, pregnancy, loss, maternal wellbeing, and relationship struggles. My approach is integrative, strengths-based, and trauma-informed. Based on your needs, our work together will draw from cognitive behavioral therapy, emotionally focused therapy, EMDR, and the mind-body connection. I fully believe in human fortitude to navigate what hurts within your story. Together, we will traverse the wonder and pain within your experience, working to let healing unfold.

Hello and welcome! I’m Stariera, a certified full spectrum doula, wellness coach and a master’s level social worker serving people throughout New York City. I enjoy working with people and have developed an understanding of human behavior psychology, critical thinking skills, and problem-solving. My decision to become a doula was born from a desire to support women earlier in the journey — from pregnancy through birth and into postpartum — helping them assess, explore, and process both the joyful and challenging emotions that can arise. I believe that when we recognize and tend to difficult feelings early, we can create space for healing, confidence, and connection in the newborn phase and beyond. Prior to Doula care, I bring 10 years of experience as a Social Worker supporting individuals and families overcome challenges such as health issues, emotional stress, housing instability, family conflict, and behavioral or socio-emotional needs. In addition, I supported mothers navigating postpartum depression and the emotional complexities that can come with new motherhood. Through that work, I developed a deep understanding of how critical emotional support, self-awareness, and self-care are to the postpartum experience — not just for surviving, but for thriving. This background allows me to hold space for clients with empathy, nonjudgmental, and a deep awareness of the complexes life can bring; especially during the perinatal period.

Body Conceptions is designed to create a lean and sculpted body of a dancer, but you don’t have to be a dancer to do it! Throughout each session, every part of your body is targeted – from your arms and abs to your thighs, glutes and heart. Both the cardio and body-sculpting components of the method use integrated movements that involve multiple muscles and require engagement of and connection to your core. Every session will test your limits – but the current, exciting music combined with the energy and joy infused into the workout will make you almost forget you are working so hard! Our approach to personal training during your fertility journey, pregnancy, and postnatal recovery springs from our extensive understanding of research-based practices combined with a deep respect for the uniqueness of your body. Our trainers know how to navigate the changes you are experiencing and can pivot as needed as your body changes from week to week and even day to day. We are very sensitive to your individual needs, and we have a network of practitioners prepared to support you if needed. Many of our clients begin training with us before they are planning their pregnancies and stay with us through all of their pregnancies and beyond!

I am a High Risk OBGYN, trained at Mount Sinai and Columbia. After doing my OBGYN residency, I chose to pursue fellowship because I never wanted to have to turn over my patients when things got complicated. After training, I moved out to the burbs and took on an attending position at Stamford Hospital, where I remained for 16 years. There, I saw patients of all demographics and loved my work. I invested a tremendous amount of time and energy in not just the physical well being of my patients, but their emotional well being as well, as that was so critical to the entire process. Often given the high risk nature of the situations, there was a huge need for attention to psychosocial aspects of care, and I figured out lots of extra ways to get people what they needed. I delivered so many of my friends’ children and cared for so many friends of friends over the years. I wanted every single one of my patients to feel that I cared for them the way I did the people closest to me. During those early years, I spent time in the NICU—academically, the neonatologists were colleagues who were often involved in complex planning for my in uterine patients, and they also were the ones who shared updates with me when I sat with the parents I had just cared for. I also am the mom of two high risk pregnancy NICU graduates, so I know how it feels to be a NICU parent firsthand. Over the last 10 years, the medical environment began to shift dramatically. Large hospital entities began to become the norm; enveloping smaller hospitals into parts of a bigger package started to become standard. Insurance companies began to have more power. OBGYNs began to experience changes in their salaries where “RVUs” or essentially units of work started form bigger parts of total incomes, and so volume of patients became more critical. Groups began to merge as well as physician burnout rose; the days of the solo practitioner waned, and having the chance to know the doctor delivering your baby well became increasingly challenging. At the same time, awareness started to finally be drawn to the crisis that is the state maternal mental health in an often fractured mental health care system. It seemed the perfect storm. Less time, more emotional toll for everyone, enhanced pre pregnancy and pregnancy testing, the pandemic, screening mandates for mood disorders in pregnancy with difficulty handling the answers to the questions that were asked—the system began to feel increasingly broken. I started to feel that I just wasn’t doing enough anymore for the patients not only that I was seeing, but especially for the ones I was not—the friends of friends, the sisters, the cousins, the women themselves—who I would gladly triage a phone call from on my own who were lost or scared or didn't understand what was going on. The pandemic and an unexpected surgery forced my hand-I left my position and took a long, hard look at what the landscape looked like. I thought about another position at another hospital—but again, I felt the system needed to be directly addressed with knowledge from the inside out. Patients needed to be empowered to get the information they needed, to feel supported when they were scared, to stop using Google, to have help finding a therapist—and none of this was happening on a large scale. I had spoken with so many amazing providers over the years—in holistic medicine, integrative medicine, therapeutic communities—that I had resources to help patients build a tool box. And I spoke the language—I could be way more effective than Google using over 20 years of outcomes to guide my explanations and support. And so the idea of Blue Moon Perinatal was born. I realized what women needed was an educator and an advocate- part doctor, part therapist, part friend, part coach—to help guide them through their struggles wherever they were—trying to conceive, struggling through IVF or miscarriage, pregnant with a preexisting medical or psychological issue, after a diagnosis of preterm labor, preeclampsia, a scary ultrasound diagnosis, or with postpartum depression or anxiety. Bringing awareness to the need for these services, I feel, can truly begin to address what’s missing. Blue Moon Perinatal offers women the opportunity to bring their struggles to me. One session, two, through a chunk of time due to a diagnosis or to have an advocate along the entire journey through the end of the 4th trimester—I can be here for you. I see clients on a virtual platform that can be booked through my website. Sessions are typically an hour, but for clients who want to enlist me for more than a session or two, I can break up the time as needed so you understand I’m always there for you. I will typically be able to accommodate a session within 24-48 hours. I truly believe that this new model eventually will prove to large conglomerations to be a patient satisfier and help OBGYN providers provide more streamlined care, as their patients will have knowledge and understand what they need to ask and why. I want to bring my services to as many moms feeling lost, overwhelmed, scared or just disempowered in this system as possible. Because I offer a new service, the word needs to get out. I want to be found by women for women. And I’m here. To translate, educate, make plans and provide support, and help you figure out what you need to feel strong.

Hi there, I'm Sarah! I'm a NYC-based wife, mother, and long-time yogi with a passion for teaching. I am a certified yoga teacher, trained through Yoga With Carson Academy (200 hr YTT) and MOGA (Pre/Postnatal). Practice with me in NYC & online for pre/postnatal classes and 1:1 private yoga sessions.

I love movement and the human body. As a physical therapist, I strive to educate and empower my patients about their body so it can thrive through all journeys of life!

Hi! I am a clinical psychologist who specializes in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) an evidence-based therapy approach. I work with new and expectant parents and offer comprehensive support for parent mental health and burnout (keeping our sanity is important!) Life can get difficult, and sometimes a little help from a professional psychologist can make things better. I am a parent of two children, and all too familiar with the challenges of stress management and dealing with daily chaos. I care about your well-being and provide you with empirically-supported tools that can help you learn how to tackle even the most difficult circumstances. In addition to parenting burnout, I also help clients with PMADs (postpartum anxiety and mood disorders), and issues related to conception, fertility, pregnancy, miscarriage and transitions to new parenthood. I enjoy collaborating with OBGYN's and other providers! You can best reach me via my website and also feel free to find me on Instagram @drterribacow.

Hello! I am Nicole, a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with a Culinary Degree and an International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant. With more than a decade of clinical-nutrition roles, it is my mission to shape the health and well-being of each woman and future generations. I empower and support women struggling with hormone, fertility, and pregnancy-related challenges through science-based nutrition and lifestyle plans tailored-fit to meet your specific goals as I strongly believe that each woman is unique. I am also the founder and director of Holness Nutrition which offers holistic approach services and customized nutrition and meal plans that will help you thrive and transform your health and hormones. Visit www.holnessnutrition.com to start your Holness Journey with me to nourish and flourish for life!