Perinatal Mentoring - New York City, NY

• What is responsive parenting? What makes it “heart-based”?
• Why is it so important to pay attention to this and learn these techniques?
• When should you start thinking about responsive parenting?
• How I mentor you
• How I work and what I charge

What is Responsive Parenting? What makes it “heart-based”?

Responsive parenting emphasizes bonding with your baby using your heart, your instincts and perceptions. Your response to your baby and the manner in which you nurture, care for and validate your baby has everything to do with the way their brain and psyches develop.

When you are bonded in this way you naturally understand how your baby communicates. You will be able to anticipate and fulfill your baby’s needs. Responsive parenting ensures optimal development for your baby at the most vital levels, physical, spiritual and emotional.

Why is it so important to pay attention to this and learn these techniques?

• Research tells us the earliest years are the most vital for the development of your baby. Even in the womb babies are conscious, aware and communicating
• Everything that happens to and around your baby during the perinatal period impacts their development profoundly.
• Babies and their parents are uniquely and vitally interconnected. As such, there is a biological, as well as behavioral and emotional interplay.
• Successful attachment and bonding ensures that these integral systems are in place. Your baby’s world is completely intertwined with yours and you are their context for everything that happens.

When should you start thinking about responsive parenting?

Now! Your path towards parenthood began when you, yourself, were a baby. In many ways it even began before you were born. Parenting is a constantly evolving process, which grows along with you and your child, and there will be many questions you have about your baby, and about your new role, all along the way.

How I mentor you:

I am your guide as you learn simple and powerful ways to prepare for your baby and to optimize the perinatal period.

• Explore your beliefs and questions about parenting and your changing lifestyle.
• Explore your new roles as parents, your differences as well as your unified purpose in parenting.
• Consciously and actively choose the type of parent you will be.
• Learn to choose effectively from the wide variety of information that is available.
• Understand your baby’s innate language and cues and establish specific ways to deepen your communication and bond.
• Explore how your baby’s biological needs are intricately linked with emotional needs.
• Recognize your baby’s biological cycles and unique rhythms such as awake and alert periods and sleep patterns.
• Understand the importance and art of sleep logistics.
• Explore the role of routines in assuring your baby feels a sense of security, consistency and trust.
• How food and feeding intertwine with nurture, love and fulfillment.
• The importance of touch, comforting and holding: The biological and emotional effects of touch and validation.
• How to soothe and comfort a fussy baby.
• How to choose a caregiver for your baby.

How I work and what I charge

Sessions can stand-alone or be ongoing as your parenting changes and evolves. To fully address as many parenting topics as possible I recommend two or more sessions.

I practice from my private office on the upper west side of Manhattan and initial visits are usually there. At times I can make visits to your home to consult with you in your own environment. Babies are enthusiastically welcome and often are important participants in our work together!

I also offer phone sessions.

A session in my office is usually an hour and half and $150.

Home visits in Manhattan are an hour and a half and cost $175.

Phone sessions are typically 30 minutes and cost $50.

I can arrange hour and a half mini workshop sessions for 2-4 people covering a variety of topics for $250.

Barbara Singer

Parenting Consultant & Mentor, Reiki Master

I love to hear from parents seeking guidance and consultation. Contact me to find out how I can work with you!

(917) 977-0704 | email

Client Testimonal

"The days and weeks following the birth of our son was filled with much joy as well as a rather daunting learning curve. Barbara was instrumental in assisting... Read More

Client Testimonial

"The days and weeks following the birth of our son was filled with much joy as well as a rather daunting learning curve. Barbara was instrumental in assisting us with the transition into parenthood based on her extensive knowledge of infants, breastfeeding and postpartum recovery. Her calm, nurturing demeanor and limitless patience made us feel comfortable in asking a wide range of questions and made it easy to learn from her. Even now, we still refer back to the instructions that she gave during those critical early weeks."

~ Christine and William