phone: 206.324.4831
email: info@birthandbeyond.com
New Parent Consulting by appointment.
*Please note that consultations are not held on holidays or when Seattle schools are cancelled for inclement weather.
*Please email Barb Orcutt at info@birthandbeyond.com for more information or to schedule a Parent Consultation.
Parents may make appointments to discuss any challenging parenting issues such as:
Parents will be offered an array of possible approaches to their challenges based on current and anticipated infant development, pediatric recommendations, and the parent's own individual philosophy and style of parenting.
About the Consultants:
Barbara Orcutt RN MN: Barb is a lactation specialist and parent educator with a Master's Degree in Family and Child Nursing. She has taught childbirth, parenting and safety classes since 1985. She is the coordinator of our lactation services and helps teach First Weeks and Let's Talk About Sleep seminar. Her greatest joy is helping parents with the adaptation and change that follows the arrival of a new baby.
Ann Keppler RN MN: Ann is co-author of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn, co-facilitator of First Weeks and the Next Months programs, a lactation specialist with a master’s degree in maternal-child nursing and has taught childbirth and new parent classes since 1975. Her passion is working with families after the birth of their infants as parents make their transition to parenthood, motherhood and fatherhood and enter the process of adapting to a new normal.
Cost: $110 per office visit (typically one to two hours)
Please email Barb Orcutt at info@birthandbeyond.com for more information or to schedule a Parent Consultation.
Parents may make appointments to discuss any challenging parenting issues such as:
- reconciling baby's and parents’ sleep needs
- returning to work
- balancing work and family life
- dealing with difficult family relationships
- developing healthy infant eating habits
- parenting the high needs or spirited infant
Parents will be offered an array of possible approaches to their challenges based on current and anticipated infant development, pediatric recommendations, and the parent's own individual philosophy and style of parenting.
About the Consultants:
Barbara Orcutt RN MN: Barb is a lactation specialist and parent educator with a Master's Degree in Family and Child Nursing. She has taught childbirth, parenting and safety classes since 1985. She is the coordinator of our lactation services and helps teach First Weeks and Let's Talk About Sleep seminar. Her greatest joy is helping parents with the adaptation and change that follows the arrival of a new baby.
Ann Keppler RN MN: Ann is co-author of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn, co-facilitator of First Weeks and the Next Months programs, a lactation specialist with a master’s degree in maternal-child nursing and has taught childbirth and new parent classes since 1975. Her passion is working with families after the birth of their infants as parents make their transition to parenthood, motherhood and fatherhood and enter the process of adapting to a new normal.
Cost: $110 per office visit (typically one to two hours)
Please email Barb Orcutt at info@birthandbeyond.com for more information or to schedule a Parent Consultation.
