Instructor Lisa's teaching has been described by students as "the perfect balance of evidence-based info with just the right bit of crunchy sprinkled in." Classes meet in her welcoming and comfy living room classroom in Astoria (or on Zoom if you prefer virtual), with freshly baked cookies at just about every first class (and other healthier options, too, for those who don't want to have fun). Lisa encourages students to come to class ready to laugh and enjoy themselves and to think of class like a celebration or special pre-baby date time to deepen intimacy with partner (where applicable) and develop new friendships.
Birth Matters' group series is also one of the few remaining of its kind that is not a la carte; rather, Lisa makes it a priority to provide students with an all-in-one series, so no one misses out on important stuff. All-in-one includes not just prep for birth but also breastfeeding, newborn care, and postpartum wellness. For this reason, it's one of the best values in NYC when you consider the individually-priced series elsewhere!
You can have a positively transformative, healthy, intervention-free or low-intervention birth, but it all too often doesn't play out that way in NYC's birth environment (as well as other parts of the country) unless we plan and prepare for it strategically. With the philosophy that--just as every person is beautifully unique--there is no one "right" way to give birth, Birth Matters equips expectant parents with the evidence-based information needed toward birthing with confidence and making informed, pragmatic and intuitive decisions in pregnancy, labor, birth and beyond.
