Birth in NYC is Different. You Deserve to Understand How It Really Works.

Real, experience based birth education for families planning hospital births in New York City. Learn how to navigate labor with confidence, understand your options, make informed decisions, and feel truly supported every step of the way.

The Class NYC Parents Wish They'd Taken Before Giving Birth

After more than 20 years supporting families across NYC hospitals, one thing is clear. The families who feel the most confident aren't necessarily the ones who know the most. They're the ones who understand how birth actually unfolds in the hospital environment.

That's what we teach.

This 4 hour childbirth class is designed for expectant parents who want clear, honest, engaging, and supportive birth education without fear based messaging or information overload. Because let's be real... who has time for weekly classes?

Every class is tailored to your hospital, your provider, and most importantly, you.

If you're having a baby in NYC, you'll leave understanding how labor works, how hospitals work, what your options are, and how to make informed decisions that feel right for your family.

What You'll Learn

This is a grounded, real world class designed to help you understand birth, trust your body, and move through labor with confidence and clarity.

Blending evidence based education with more than 20 years of hands on experience in NYC hospitals, you'll leave feeling prepared, informed, and excited for birth, not overwhelmed.

Birth is one of the most important experiences of your life. You deserve to enter it feeling confident, supported, and ready.

We won't tell you how to give birth. We'll teach you how birth works, how to understand your options, recognize what's normal, communicate with your care team, and make informed decisions that feel right for your family.

You'll learn practical ways to work with your body during labor using movement, positioning, touch, and coping techniques that feel natural to you, not scripted breathing exercises or yoga routines. We'll help you discover the strengths and coping skills you already have and show you how to use them during labor.

You'll also learn how to create a meaningful birth plan, understand common hospital interventions and why they're recommended, and know what your nurses, OB, or midwife are watching for throughout labor so you feel informed every step of the way.

Who This Class Is For

• Expectant parents looking for honest, practical childbirth education in NYC

• Partners who want to show up with confidence, calm, and real tools to provide meaningful support

• Families planning a hospital birth with an OB or midwife

• Anyone who wants to walk into birth feeling informed, supported, and genuinely excited instead of anxious

Notes for Your Visit

This is an adults only class. We recommend arranging childcare so you can fully focus and enjoy the experience.

Snacks and refreshments are provided. If you have any allergies or dietary needs, just let us know when you register.

Knowing CPR could save your child’s life. This workshop gives you the skills and the confidence to act fast if you ever need to.

Led by Jason Mundy, owner and lead instructor of NY Metro CPR, this class has been trusted by thousands of parents and caregivers since 1997. Jason brings genuine passion, deep knowledge, and real energy to every session — his classes are engaging, practical, and actually fun. He’s also a certified Child Passenger Safety Technician, so questions about car seat installation are absolutely fair game.

Spots are limited — register early.

$250 per couple or care team | $125 per individual

Who This Class Is For

- Expectant parents and caregivers who want to be prepared for any situation

- Partners and extended family members who will be caring for the baby

- Anyone who wants the calm confidence that comes from knowing exactly what to do

Notes for Your Visit

- This is an adults-only class. We recommend arranging childcare so you can fully focus.

- Snacks and refreshments are provided. Let us know about any allergies when you register.

This 2-hour drop-in lactation seminar is for new moms and their one-to-four-week-old babies who want clear, honest, supportive guidance on breastfeeding and feeding options. Explore what’s right for your journey, understand what’s normal, and feel confident making decisions that work for you.

Drop-In Schedule

This is a suggested registration fee to attend. Limited spaces available on these weekly dates.

• Mondays (9–10am)

• Wednesdays (9–10am)

• Fridays (9–10am)

What to Expect

• Lots of tears and crying… all the normal new parent feels!

• Lots of encouragement

• Lactation counselor support

• Connections with other new moms

• Pointing you to great resources to support your journey

Who This Class Is For

• New moms and their one-to-four-week-old child who want clear, honest, supportive education

Notes for your Visit

• Newborn babies are welcome, but if possible we recommend arranging childcare for any children over one-month-old to give yourself time to focus during the seminar.

• Snacks and refreshments will be provided, but if you have allergy or dietary needs, please let us know when you register.

This three-hour course is designed for partners, dads, spouses, and sweethearts who want to show up prepared with steadiness, clarity, intention, and quiet confidence during labor and birth. Come and be yourself. Beverages welcome… BYOB!

What to Expect

This course is intended for families who are not planning to have a doula or labor coach for their labor and delivery journey.

You’ve taken the Birth Education class. You understand why families hire doulas  and you also know you can level up and be there in a way no one else can. As pregnancy moves closer to birth, you may feel her shift from excitement to nervousness. This is where you step in.

You’ve heard the stories from friends. You’ve seen the movies where the partner drops the ball at the most important moment. That’s not going to be you. This is the class that teaches you how to become the person she looks to as her whole world changes. Someone who knows her, loves her, and can care for her when she needs it most. Because in that room, she will need you to help others understand who she is and what she needs so she can stay focused on the powerful work of giving birth.

Confident support changes everything. Birth is unpredictable. Your presence doesn’t have to be. This experience gives you the knowledge, language, and practical skills to support your partner calmly and confidently — without trying to turn you into someone you’re not. This class replaces uncertainty with quiet confidence.

You’ll leave knowing how to support, when to step in, and how to remain calm under pressure — skills that meaningfully shape the birth experience. Because confident support is one of the greatest gifts you can give while receiving one of life’s most important gifts — your child.

Who This Class Is For

• Partners and sweethearts who want to feel prepared

• Dads and spouses who value being informed, grounded, and engaged

• Anyone supporting a laboring woman who wants practical, refined guidance

Topics Covered

• How labor truly unfolds and what she may need at each stage

• Hands-on comfort techniques that genuinely ease contractions

• Things to say that help labor to progress

• How to stay calm, grounded, and confident during intense moments

• Ways to connect to the nurses and providers, ways to support decision-making

• What happens in the first hours after birth — and why your role matters there too

• Simple, meaningful ways to bond with your baby from the very beginning

Notes for your Visit

• This is a grownups-only course; we recommend arranging childcare to give yourself time to focus during the class.

• Snacks and refreshments will be provided, but if you have allergy or dietary needs, please let us know when you register.

Kerri is slowing down from the on-call life, but is still accepting a limited number of doula clients for 2026.

To inquire about availability, please email: brooklynbirthshop@gmail.com

NYC Doula Institute The 3-Day Doula Intensive

Are you ready!

What You’ll Learn

The NYC Doula Institute 3-Day Intensive is an immersive training built around real birth work in New York City.

Over three days, we’ll share what we know about birth, families, hospitals, care teams, and what it actually means to become a Birth Doula

You’ll learn about pregnancy and the changing body, early and active labor, epidurals, inductions, cesarean birth, pushing, postpartum, newborns, feeding, partners and families.

How to sit with someone when things are hard. How to walk into a birth room and understand the space. How to support a family without making their birth about you. How to work alongside nurses, midwives, OBs, and hospital care teams. How to listen. How to use your hands. How to know when to speak and when your presence is enough.

Who’s Teaching

Founded by Kerri Evers, a birth doula with more than 20 years of experience in New York City hospitals, the NYC Doula Institute was built from decades of real work inside NYC birth spaces. Kerri helped establish one of New York City’s first hospital-based doula programs and has spent her career building relationships with OBs, midwives, nurses, and hospital care teams.

The 3-Day Intensive is co-taught by Kerri and a Certified Nurse-Midwife, bringing together the doula perspective and the clinical context surrounding pregnancy and birth.

Caring for a City Like Ours

Because this is New York City, we’re going to teach you how to care for the people who make this city what it is.

Our city is brilliantly diverse. Our clients come to birth with their own cultures, traditions, faiths, belief systems, families, and stories. It’s our job to learn. To listen. To honor what matters to them, and when welcomed, to help make space for it within their birth experience.

You’ll learn to approach every family with curiosity, respect, and humility to understand that the way you see birth isn’t the way everyone sees birth, and it shouldn’t be.

Every Kind of Birth

This training isn’t built around one kind of birth. We’ll talk physiologic and medical birth, unmedicated labor and epidurals, spontaneous labor and induction, vaginal birth and cesarean birth-because doulas support birth in all the ways it happens.

You’ll learn how NYC hospitals work, how care teams move, and where the doula fits within that space. You’ll learn professional standards, boundaries, communication, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the responsibility that comes with being invited into one of the biggest moments of someone’s life.

The Business of Birth Work

And we’re going to talk about the part of doula work that most trainings barely touch: the business. The interviews. The emails, calls, and texts. The prenatal relationship. The birth bag. The backup doula. The on-call life, the missed dinners, the middle-of-the-night phone calls. Building relationships with providers. Building a sustainable practice. Caring for yourself while caring deeply for other people. And how to build a career in birth work that you can actually stay in.

This work will change you. Birth will teach you about bodies, babies, families, relationships, fear, strength, surrender, and people. We’ve spent decades learning from birth. Now we’re ready to share what we know with you.

Three days. Real birth education. Real doula work. Real NYC experience.

Come learn with us.

Graduates of the NYC Doula Institute are known as Rosies.

Welcome to the Rosie Standard.

Choosing where to give birth and who to give birth with is one of the most important decisions you’ll make during pregnancy.

New York City offers some of the most respected hospitals and birth professionals in the country. From large academic medical centers to community hospitals with deeply experienced midwives, families have many excellent options.

But the “best” hospital or provider isn’t the same for everyone.

The best choice is the one that aligns with your preferences, values, and the type of birth experience you hope to have.

Understanding Your Options

Hospitals

New York City is home to many highly regarded maternity hospitals that offer a range of services — from low-intervention physiologic birth to highly specialized care for complex pregnancies.

But something many families don’t realize is that the hospital culture matters just as much as the building itself.

The Nurses Matter More Than You Think

One of the biggest influences on your birth experience is the nurse who is with you during labor.

Labor nurses are the ones who:

• spend the most time with you
• communicate with the doctor or midwife
• guide you through the intensity of labor
• protect the rhythm and atmosphere of the room

The best hospitals are often the ones with experienced, supportive labor nurses who truly understand birth.

New York City has many incredible labor nurses who bring skill, intuition, humor, and calm presence into the room. When families feel safe, supported, and respected, it is often because a great nurse is helping guide the experience.

Obstetricians (OB-GYNs)

Many families choose to work with an OB-GYN.

OBs are physicians trained in both pregnancy care and surgical birth, including cesarean delivery and high-risk pregnancy management.

Finding the right OB is often about more than credentials. Families frequently want a provider who:

• listens carefully
• respects their preferences
• communicates clearly
• and works collaboratively with the birth team

The right provider should make you feel informed, supported, and confident in your care.

Midwives: A Return to What We’ve Always Known

Midwifery care is a return.

A return to the wisdom women have carried for generations long before modern medicine, long before birth became something to manage instead of trust.

Midwives are trained professionals, but their care is rooted in something deeper.
They are there to support the natural rhythm of labor, to protect the environment around you, and to help you stay connected to your body and your instincts.

For many families, working with a midwife means:

• more time and attention during pregnancy
• a focus on physiologic, low-intervention birth
• feeling seen, heard, and deeply supported
• continuity of care with someone who truly knows you

But beyond all of that, midwifery offers something harder to put into words.

It brings us back to ourselves.

Because the truth is —
we don’t need to be empowered.

We are the power.

Midwifery care doesn’t give that to you.
It protects it.
It trusts it.
And it helps you remember it was yours all along.

NYC is home to an incredible community of Midwives who have supported generations of families through birth.

How We Help Families Decide

With so many options in New York City, it can feel overwhelming.

Part of our work is helping families understand:

• which hospitals may be the best fit for them
• which OBs or midwives align with their birth preferences
• which hospitals are known for particularly supportive nursing teams
• what the culture of each hospital is really like
• and how to build a birth team that works well together

Because where you give birth matters —
but who supports you while you’re doing it matters even more.

Email to setup a zoom call or a phone call

“After supporting births across New York City for more than 20 years, I’ve seen firsthand how different hospitals — and even different shifts — can shape a birth experience.”