Preparation makes a big difference
When we work together before your baby arrives, many common challenges can be prevented, reducing the need to course-correct later.
I help expecting mothers
- Learn how to support your baby’s healthiest start
- Support feeding and sleep from the beginning
- Understand what smooth, adaptable movement looks like and recognize when a baby may be compensating through effort or tension
- Learn which common baby products and practices may unintentionally reinforce tension, asymmetry, and less efficient movement patterns
- Feel confident and prepared for life with a new baby
“Working with Heather before my son arrived was a complete gift. I was able to enter my life as a mother with confidence knowing that I had an incredible resource by my side. Heather is attuned, compassionate and has an incredible body of wisdom and knowledge. I continue to consult with her as my children grow and go through different phases and feel incredibly lucky to have her.”
– Patricia Eberwine
Pregnancy is full of preparation, but most parents are never taught how to optimize their baby’s feeding, milestone development, and nervous system from the very beginning.
You spend months preparing for birth, choosing the right stroller, setting up the nursery, creating an elaborate baby registry with all the recommended products, and gathering all the things your baby will need.
But what if the most valuable preparation isn’t another baby item?
What if being truly prepared means understanding your baby long before they can tell you what they need?
With the right guidance before your baby arrives, you can enter parenthood feeling informed, prepared, and confident, not overwhelmed and searching Google and Instagram at 2 a.m.
Start your parenting journey with expert guidance that helps you feel confident, prepared, and ready for whatever your baby brings.
Personalized prenatal comprehensive care designed to help you understand your baby, navigate the early months with confidence, and lay the foundation for healthy feeding, development, and connection.
I help expecting mothers prepare for
- Optimal motor milestone development
- Preventing tension, stiffness, and body asymmetries such as torticollis and plagiocephaly
- Breastfeeding and bottle-feeding success
- Understanding infant feeding cues
- Colic, digestive discomfort, reflux and allergies
- Sensory development
- Co-regulation, attachment, and responsive parenting
- Creating a sense of safety for a calm nervous system
- An infant’s biological sleep needs
- Safe co-sleeping
- Babywearing and positioning
Supporting Your Baby’s Natural Development
Drawing from the work of Moshe Feldenkrais, NeuroHorizons®, Emmi Pikler, Resources for Infant Educarers – RIE®, and the neuroscientific principles of neuroplasticity, you’ll learn how babies develop through self-initiated movement, exploration, and relationship-based care. Rather than focusing on placing babies into positions or accelerating milestones, we’ll explore how to create the conditions that allow development to unfold naturally.
I will teach you how to encourage your baby’s emerging abilities through observation, freedom of movement, attuned caregiving, and an environment that encourages discovery, confidence, and healthy development from the very beginning.
- Create a developmentally supportive environment
- Recognize early signs that your baby may need support (the earlier the better)
- Foster connection and bonding with your baby now
- Navigate conflicting advice
- Build confidence before baby arrives
- Know who to come to if challenges arise
The Comprehensive Prenatal Preparation Package
Prepare for your baby’s arrival with practical, individualized guidance before your baby is born.
This in-home consultation helps you prepare your home, your baby registry, and yourself for the early weeks with your newborn.
- Prenatal consultation
- Nursery audit
- Curated baby registry audit
- Education about breastfeeding, infant sleep, and development
- Guidance informed by Emmi Pikler, RIE Parenting, and Feldenkrais principles
- Direct access for questions before delivery
- Priority scheduling for newborn support
- Connections to pediatric specialists when appropriate