2015-2016 Guide For New & Expectant Parents

The 2015 New York Baby Show; Photo by Patrick MacLeod

For expectant and new parents (with children up to toddler age), New York Family has four very special and helpful resources.

The New York Baby Show: The New York Baby Show is a wonderful family-friendly mega-event for expectant and new parents (and their babies and toddlers) from New York City, the Tri-State area, and beyond, that will take place the weekend of May 14-15, 2016, at Pier 92 in NYC. Explore a mix of top products and services for maternity, baby, and toddler. Sample an inspiring menu of speakers and demonstrations from highly regarded and beloved figures in the world of parenting and pregnancy. Make discoveries, get your questions answered, feel supported and informed, win great raffles, and best of all…enjoy yourself! Plus, don’t miss our Best in Show picks from the 2015 New York Baby Show here. Visit newyorkbabyshow.com to learn more!

Our Weekly Baby Newsletter: We also offer expectant and new parents a wonderful and free weekly e-newsletter filled with info on pre- and post-natal resources, shopping tips, news, and musings—not to mention fabulous giveaways. The newsletter is mostly based on our popular New York Family Baby blog, which is where you can sign up to receive it every week.

New York Family Baby: This magazine is a special bi-annual publication, released in the fall and in the spring, focused solely on the needs and interests of expectant and new parents. The next issue will be released in fall 2015.

Finally, the following directory should also help you address many of your needs as new parents.

BABY & BREASTFEEDING GEAR

Behr’s Superstore

Bellini

Brooklyn Baby World

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giggle

Goodnight Room NYC

Metro Minis

NessaLee Baby

New York Baby Shop

Pottery Barn Kids

Rosie Pope Baby

Schneider’s

Sprout San Francisco

Upper Breast Side

Wild Was Mama

Yummy Mummy

BABY PLANNERS & CONCIERGE SERVICES

Cricket’s Circle

King Kidlet

Sissy & Marley

BABY-PROOFING

All-Star Baby Safety

A Plus Child Proofing

Baby Bodyguards

Baby Proofers Plus

Manhattan Child Proofers, Inc.

CHILDCARE

Absolute Best Care

Au Pair Care

Au Pair in America

Barnard Babysitting

Bright Horizons

Care

College & Nanny Tutors

Choice Parenting

Crisford & Co.

EurAupair

Explore + Discover

The Goddard School

Great Aupair

The House of Little People

Irish Echo (for their listings)

The Learning Experience

Lucky Lil’ Darlings

Mom To Moms Advisor

Mommybites

MyManny

Nannies4hire

Nannies of New York

The Nanny League

Penelope’s People

Pinch Sitters Agency

Preschool of America

Preschool of the Arts

Sensible Sitters

Sittercity

Tutor Time

Upper Westside Playgroup

Urban Sitter

Wee Care

DIAPER SERVICES

Diaper Kind

Nature’s Premiere

FERTILITY CLINICS

The Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility

New Hope Fertility

NYU Fertility Center

Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York

HOSPITALS & BIRTHING CENTERS

The Brooklyn Birthing Center

Lenox Hill Hospital

Maimonides Medical Center

Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center

Mount Sinai Hospital

Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital

Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital Center

New York Methodist

NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center

NewYork-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital

NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital

NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center

NYU Langone Medical Center

INFANT CPR

Baby Be Safe

Little Hearts

MATERNITY CLOTHES

A Pea In The Pod

Belly Dance Maternity

Bump Brooklyn

Clementine Consignment

Destination Maternity

Encore Maternity

FitBump

Madison Rose

Motherhood Maternity

Rosie Pope Maternity

Seraphine

Veronique Maternity

PRE- AND POST-NATAL EDUCATION, FITNESS, AND SUPPORT

92Y

Babies “R” Us

Ancient Song Doula Services

AquaMom

Baby in the Family

Birth Day Presence

BklynBirth

Carriage House Birth

Choices in Childbirth

City Births

Destination Maternity (for their classes)

The JCC Manhattan

Karma Kids Yoga

Lamaze International for Parents

Mama Glow

Mama Views

Manhattan Twins Club

Metropolitan Doula Group

Metro Minis

Mind Over Matter Health & Fitness (MOM)

New York Lactation Consultant Association

Newborn Notions

Northeast Doulas

NYC Dads Group/New Dad Boot Camps

NYC Doula Service

Peace, Love, and Labor

Pregnancy & Parenting

Pregnant New Yorker

Prenatal Yoga Center

Tribeca Parenting

Twiniversity

Urban Wellness Acupuncture

Wild Was Mama

Yummy Mummy

SLEEP CONSULTANTS

The Baby Sleep Whisperer

SPECIAL SERVICES FOR NEW PARENTS

Six Degrees of Mom

weeSpring

Well Rounded NY

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