Meredith Fein Lichtenberg, the director of A Mother Is Born, is an Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), a Certified Childbirth Educator (CCE - CEA/MNY), parenting educator and non-fiction writer. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Childbirth Education Association of Metropolitan New York since 2004. Meredith has taught for Realbirth, Tribeca Workshop, Tribeca Parenting, and Gumbo, as well as privately all over Manhattan.  She 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, and elsewhere.  Her focus is women’s changing identities through the childbirth years.

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 new mothers.  

She lives in Manhattan with her husband and children.

email: meredith (at) amotherisborn.com 

twitter: @amotherisborn

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PRESS:

What Do Moms Need Most — Interview

AMIB’s FB page makes Babble’s Top 50 

Bio of me Interview @ CTY Alum Mag

My response to Hanna Rosin’s “Case Against Breastfeeding”, March 19, 2009, CA NOW guest blog (full text available at this link), and feedback from the feminist librarian.

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If you Can’T remember if You cried when you read about his widowed bride, tell me you’re an alum when you contact me.

Disclaimer: The information in this blog is for educational purposes only. Nothing contained on this web-site or in my classes or workshops is intended to be used for medical diagnosis or treatment, and should not be used in place of the advice of your midwife, physician, or other qualified health care provider.  Likewise, nothing contained herein, including my responses to reader questions, constitutes a contract for my services, nor creates any duty or relationship between me and the writer (or readers).  Blog posts are, I hope, thought-provoking, but are necessarily general.  Although I am an IBCLC, I do not provide any IBCLC services over the internet.  If you would like to work with me, please begin by contacting me directly.