Meredith Fein Lichtenberg is a Registered International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC-RLC), a Certified Childbirth Educator (CCCE - CEA/MNY), parenting educator and non-fiction writer.

Meredith has taught for The 14th Street YM/WHA, Citybirths, Pregnancy & Parenting, Hudson River Park Mamas, Bowery Babes, Realbirth, Tribeca Workshop, and Gumbo, at numerous major corporations, and privately all over Manhattan. She served on the Board of Directors of the Childbirth Education Association of Metropolitan New York for over ten years. Meredith has guest-lectured for the Sexy Moms Series through Choices in Childbirth, and advised on From The Hips (Odes & Morris, Three Rivers Press 2006), and she privately mentors students who are becoming doulas and childbirth educators. 

Her essays about parenting have appeared in Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers; The Mom Egg; Huffington Post; Full-Grown People, and elsewhere.  Her focus is parents’ changing identities through the childbirth years, specifically the way folks experience the word “mother,” and the role of community in identity development.

Meredith received her B.A., magna cum laude, from The University of Pennsylvania, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and an editor of the Law Review.  She left the private practice of law in 2002 to begin working with families.  

She lives in Manhattan with her family.

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