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Manhattan Birth supports pregnant and postpartum parents with evidence-informed childbirth education, doula support, midwifery care, and newborn care guidance.

Founded by midwife Tanya Wills, Manhattan Birth is a supportive, loving community devoted to NYC childbirth education, birth worker mentorship, doula support, and compassionate parent care. Our mission is to demystify your childbearing body, advocate for the birth experience you deserve, and provide guidance through the joys and challenges of early parenthood. We are a loving, nonjudgmental community of birth professionals and educators delivering practical, honest, and down-to-earth support. Our doulas and birth workers are highly trained, experienced, and continuously learning together to provide the best care. Pregnant parents: Gain confidence with our childbirth classes in NYC, labor and delivery preparation, and personalized guidance for pregnancy and birth. New parents: Find support in our community and consultations focused on postpartum care, newborn care, and lactation support. Birth workers: Join our Doula Mentor Program and Integrative Lactation and Feeding Specialist Program (ILFS) for mentorship, professional development, and business support. Manhattan Birth is inclusive, honest, and evidence-informed. Our classes and services are designed to empower you, your family, and your birth team while centering reproductive justice and holistic care.

02/19/2026

Every family’s feeding journey is different, and that’s exactly why integrative support matters.

Our Integrative Lactation & Feeding Specialist (ILFS) program® teaches you how to meet families where they are, with strategies grounded in evidence and tailored to real-life needs.

✨ Learn from experienced IBCLCs, doulas, and feeding professionals and gain the tools to support every parent and baby confidently. ✨

Enrollment for our March cohort is now open. Secure your spot today:
https://bit.ly/4khI7dK

02/17/2026

Our 10-week Integrative Lactation and Feeding Specialist Program® is open for enrollment! 🙌

Why work with us?

👉 We consider the full picture.
Our program addresses the institution and family structure that act as support or barriers to the family/new parent.

👉 Our community is inclusive.
We are creating a credential that is taught from an inclusive and actively anti-racist perspective. Single, LGBTQIA+ families, and adopted families are not othered.

👉 Our training is in-depth.
This program offers varied modes of learning, from weekly case studies and formal presentations to small group meetings, mentorship and more. Complete the course with a final exam, written lactation assessments and a case study presentation and walk away with a credential that you can be proud to hold.

Enroll today: https://bit.ly/4r2zk20

02/13/2026

Join our March session of The Complete Childbirth Experience! ✨

📆 March 22–April 19 | 1:30–4:30pm
📍 In-person on the Upper West Side
Over 4 Sundays, gain the confidence, knowledge, and community support you need for pregnancy, labor, birth, and early parenthood.

This is our most comprehensive NYC childbirth class, covering it all:

🤰 Labor & Childbirth
👶 Infant & Toddler CPR
🍼 Lactation & Newborn Care

Reserve your spot and learn more → https://bit.ly/4aDVL6P

02/10/2026

Effective breastfeeding support is calm, clear, and grounded in physiology.

Watch Manhattan Birth's Founder Tanya demonstrate how skilled lactation care supports both parent *and* baby through baby-led latch, responsive positioning, and guidance that builds confidence instead of pressure.

This approach is central to our Integrative Lactation and Feeding Specialist Program®.

ILFS offers advanced lactation education for birth workers and care providers who want to offer inclusive, integrative feeding support.

Enrollment opens February 17. Join the interest list to get notified first → https://bit.ly/4rxSP28

*Location: Manhattan, NY

02/05/2026

Birth is unpredictable. Education shouldn’t be. 💥⁠
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Whether you’re planning a hospital birth, home birth, medicated, or unmedicated, The Complete Childbirth Experience will help you feel confident, prepared, and supported.⁠
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Swipe through to see a few FAQs, what’s included, and why partners and doulas matter.⁠
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Next session begins Feb 8. Register now to save your spot: https://bit.ly/49WdEi1
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02/03/2026

The legacy of Midwifery in the US lies with Black Midwives.

The idea that people could receive care that respects and dignifies them in their communities did not come from white feminism. It was co-opted.

Black midwives are the founders of midwifery in the US and the removal of them from their communities remains a travesty we cannot recover from.

We honor their legacy.

Black History Month offers a wonderful opportunity to pay reparations. Today we are supporting the national Association to Advance Black Birth.

01/28/2026

Take a peek inside our Integrative Lactation and Feeding Specialist Program™ workbook!

This 10-week training helps birth workers build confidence and feel ready to support families in real-life lactation and feeding situations. We cover everything from history and anatomy to client care, boundaries, and running your practice.

Curious about what we actually teach? See for yourself → https://bit.ly/4bJh3BO

01/26/2026

A reminder: If you are pregnant or have a new baby, you are not responsible for taking on the grief of the world. Protect your peace, please. You cannot be the giver and sustainer of life, AND simultaneously hold this crumbling nation.

For the rest of us: Contact your representatives in Congress NOW. Call all of them, of any party, and demand they stop this impotence and inaction. Not a single bill should move forward for this administration. Stop it all. Demand they do not cooperate with them on anything. If you care about babies, parents, birth work, reproductive justice, humanity… you’ll flood their voicemails and inboxes this week.

Renee Good was a mother who wrote poetry and loved to sing.

Liam Ramos is in preschool and loves to play.

Alex Pretti was a nurse who devoted his life to caring for the suffering when others looked away.

We see ourselves and all of humanity in Renee, Liam, and Alex, and every single victim of ICE, and we must condemn our government’s impotence in the face of the unspeakable horrors we are witnessing day after day. They must all be held accountable.

Birth work is social justice work. Birth work must address intersecting oppressions:

Systemic Racism: How colonial violence, medical apartheid, and racist healthcare structures shape who receives quality care.

White Supremacy Culture: Perfectionism, paternalism, binary thinking, and “one right way” mentality in birth spaces.

Patriarchy: A male-dominated medical establishment that has systematically devalued women’s knowledge and midwifery.

Capitalism: Factory-model care prioritizing profit over people.

Heteronormativity: Erasure of LGBTQIA+ people and diverse family structures in birth care.

Keep going.

01/23/2026

Tanya helped turn this little one into the perfect head-down position at 33 weeks with a gentle External Cephalic Version (ECV)! 🙌 Using bedside ultrasound, we confirmed baby went from breech → head down, lowering birth risks. ❤️⁠
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01/20/2026

Baby number two arrived at home on 12.13.25, right in the family’s bathtub!⁠
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After a false start five days earlier, labor returned following our holiday party and this little one was born at 5:57am.⁠
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Big sibling, now 5, slept through the whole thing. This was the family’s first homebirth and the baby arrived on the due date, two weeks later than mom’s first.⁠
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was there for the birth and arrived just after to make a beautiful placenta print. By the time we left, all four of them were tucked in, safe and together.⁠
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Moments like this remind us why we love supporting families at home. 🥰⁠
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01/12/2026

Many of the doulas in our Doula Mentor Program take part in our Integrative Lactation and Feeding Specialist Program™️ (ILFS) to do one thing: feel steadier and more confident in how they support feeding families.

ILFS is a comprehensive lactation training for birth workers, combining physiology, infant feeding education, and real-world case studies.

It’s become a natural next step for doulas, postpartum professionals, and other birth workers who want deeper knowledge, stronger skills, and a practice that truly centers the goals of the family.

Our next cohort opens in March! 🙌 Join our interest list to stay in the loop and secure early access.

Learn more → https://bit.ly/4qddAjz

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