Childbirth Education In Brooklyn Heights...Is Here!

Brooklyn Heights Prenatal is happy to be in association with Danika Wynn, Certified Childbirth Educator.

Danika has designed a special 4-hour

educational consultation, which she offers for you and your spouse/partner to take in your own home at the convenience of your scheduling!

Childbirth Education is an integral part of your pregnancy and birth plans. In fact, it is required for most hospital deliveries, and definitely for deliveries planned at a birthing center or at home.

Most often, Childbirth Education is offered in a weekly class series, or weekend workshop.

More to come.............................

Link to our Childbirth Education Page

Danika Severino Wynn, RN, BSN, LCCE

That's Danika on the right

I am a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator, a labor & delivery Registered Nurse, a DONA trained doula, and currently I am gaining my certification to be a nurse-midwife. I'm also the mama to an amazing baby girl. 
I comfortably straddle both the medical and holistic side of women's healthcare and enjoy supporting new families in their journey to parenthood.  Every day I get to learn and work in a field that I love.
I truly enjoy helping new parents and their babies learn about each other. 

I'm a strong, vocal advocate of pregnancy and childbirth education and options - I believe all women and couples should understand their choices in pregnancy and birth.  This empowerment and knowledge creates confident parents.

I look forward to getting to know you and your family!

Danika can be booked for In-home Childbirth Education. For more information: 

email: brooklynheightsprenatal@gmail.com or phone 718-624-5489 Jody

Brooklyn Heights Prenatal Has Found a Home

Area Yoga has become our home!
144 Montague St 718-221-9642

Brooklyn Heights Prenatal is finally being born. I have filed my LLC papers and have teamed up with Area Yoga at 144 Montague Street.

Area Yoga currently has two Prenatal Yoga Classes on their schedule and a group of pregnant women who are eager to network.

A beautiful Massage Treatment Room is available for me to give quality Prenatal Massage Treatments.

And a consultation room up front is rapidly becoming home to a library of maternity books, two physioballs, a gallery of photographs and Doula, Childbirth Education and Maternity Concierge Consults. Soon we will be able to host consultations with professional midwives, doulas, and educators.

Brooklyn Heights Prenatal at Area Yoga is looking forward to serving the pregnant community by providing the services, education and atmosphere that is wanted and needed here in Brooklyn Heights.
Prenatal Yoga Classes:
Thursdays 5:45pm Saturdays 12:40 Both classes are 1hour and 10minutes
Prenatal Massage:
All days and times by appointment 718-221-9642

Appointments Available

Call Jody at Brooklyn Heights Prenatal 718-624-5489
Here's an article on BabyCenter attesting to the benefits of Prenatal Massage.

Giving Birth Naturally, The Website Resource

givingbirthnaturally.com .......a wonderful site to explore. Check out the varied online childbirth education courses offered!
Changing the Face of Child-birth Education (click)

Confidence, Confidence, Confidence

Here is a wonderful article with guidance and pointers to boost your confidence during labor and pregnancy.


Webster defines confidence as: A FEELING or CONSCIOUSNESS of one's powers.

So often, powerful as we are, we are  kept separate from feeling our own powerful nature and the expanse of our own capabilities.

S.K. Valenzuela's "Five Easy Ways To Boost Your Labor Confidence"

Prenatal Massage, A Vital Part Of Your Pregnancy Plan

The Benefits of Massage During Pregnancy

The benefits of Prenatal Massage are achieved simply and pleasantly, yet they are significant, profound and far-reaching.


As a licensed massage therapist, specializing in prenatal, I would be happy to discuss your pregnancy with you and to schedule your prenatal massage(s).

Jody Caravaglia (718) 624-5489

1. Therapeutic Massage has the ability to relieve aches and pains in a natural and safe way without the use of medications. Especially good for the pregnant mom and her fetus.
2. Massage assists in promoting movement of the blood and lymph fluids. For the pregnant mother the benefits are many: assisting the heart with its increased circulation workload, assisting in venous blood return especially from legs, helping deliver oxygen, via blood flow to nourish mother’s muscles, helping to delivery metabolic waste products in the blood to the lungs and kidneys where they can be eliminated. Helps reduce water swelling (edema) in the legs by manually increasing lymph circulation. As a result, decreases fatigue.
3. Promotes a healthy immune system.
4. Massage helps to ease pressure and allievate stress on the weight bearing joints:  hips, pelvis, knees, ankles, and foot joints. Massage soothes soreness and fatigue in all the muscles of the pregnant body, and specifically to the muscles associated with supporting the extra weight of the baby, and muscles effected by the growing shape and gravitational pulls on the mother’s changing form. Massage can relieve any pressure that impinges on any nerves such as the Sciatic Nerve. Massage can address lower back strain.  Click READ MORE to continue reading. I especially love #7.........

In Praise of The Uterus

"The uterus is balanced, or in a manner floats, in its normal position in the pelvic cavity in a state of equilibrium. Under natural conditions when this state of equilibrium is disturbed it is quickly and readily regained as soon as the disturbing agency has ceased to operate. The uterus is endowed with a greater degree of mobility than any other internal organ in the body. Its position is normally altered by every respiratory act, descending with inspiration and rising with expiration. It is pushed backward as the bladderfills and forward by a full rectum and upward when both these organs are filled. Its position is changed by change of posture. It may be greatly displaced in a bimanual examination only to immediately return to its normal position which may vary considerably within certain limits. So to constitute a displacement the condition must be continuous and more or less fixed. Should the uterus become fixed or immobilized in what is called its "normal position" such a condition would be pathological."

I do quite a bit of research and studying by following links on the internet. This excerpt is from a medical article on uterus displacement and can be read in full by clicking on this LINK. I found the wording so eloquent......almost poetic.....the way the author evokes the principle of the uterus as a cloud floating on a hammock. Amazing!......Jody

Walk To Your Doctor's Appointment

Leslie J. Bizovi, MD

Board Certified Ob/Gyn

Bizovi Women’s Health offers a unique style of caring based on building strong patient relationships.

Dr. Leslie Bizovi believes that personal, individualized attention is the only way to practice good medicine.

Dr. Bizovi is a board-certified ob/gyn and a certified acupuncturist focused on an integrative approach to health and healing. Leslie appreciates the journey a woman takes during her pregnancy, through labor and delivery and into motherhood.

Bizovi Women’s Health provides the local Brooklyn community with compassionate care for every phase of a woman’s life.

347-529-5612

10 Columbia Place 

(between State St. and Joralemon St.)

Brooklyn, New York 11201
Welcome to Bizovi Women’s Health (link)

Portraits and Self-Portraits

The Maternity Photography Guide

Sometimes I find interesting web links when I google for images. I found this site when I googleimaged "maternity". The guide offers tips and hints for successful and fun maternity photographs, whether the snapographer is professional, friend or family, or yourself!

Exercise-The Pregnancy Panacea

Where To Find It In Brooklyn Heights:

Prenatal Yoga at Area Yoga

Prenatal Pilates at Streamline Pilates Studio

Personal Training at All About You Fitness 
Tell them brooklynheightsprenatal.com sent you!

"What To Expect"
is an essential website to peruse and bookmark.
Here is a link to an upbeat article 
on the benefits of exercise fitness during pregnancy.

Choices In Childbirth

Choices In Childbirth is a most valuable website and their basic philosophy reprinted below is a philosophy that Brooklyn Heights Prenatal endorses and echoes. 

Educate Yourself

Start this exciting new phase in your life from an empowered position! In today’s world you have access to a seemingly limitless amount of information about pregnancy and birth. Dive in! [read more]

Listen to Your Body

Your body is about to embark on an epic journey!  Pregnancy and childbirth will challenge you in all kinds of new and exciting ways. [read more]

Create Your Personal Birth Philosophy

Now that you’ve started to educate yourself about pregnancy and birth it’s time to make some choices. Step 3 is about identifying your own personal philosophy and creating a vision for your child’s birth. [read more]

Choose Your Care Provider

Choosing a maternity care provider is the single most important decision that you will make.  Take the time to interview providers to ensure that you find the best possible match. [read more]

Choose Your Birth Environment

Your personal philosophy and vision for your birth will help you determine the right birth environment.  The vast majority of women in the United States birth in hospitals. While this is the dominant choice, it is not necessarily your only one. [read more]