The Brooklyn Birthing Center has opened NYC’s first donor milk depot. As many know, breast milk can give fragile babies a healthier start in life. They have an affiliate milk bank that they are partnering… Read More »The Importance of Milk Banking
About three weeks ago, it dawned (or darkened) on me. It was an unhappy, gloomy realization that, “Holy Mother of God, it’s dark,” in those sad, thick early evenings at only 5pm toward the end… Read More »Seasonal Affective Disorder, SAD, and its Treatment
The dreaded nightmare started what seems like forever ago: my daughter was benevolently, constantly scratching her head one morning as we strolled to the playground a couple of months back. Four-year-olds have bigger concerns than… Read More »The Lowdown on Lice
Xtend Barre Brooklyn is a boutique fitness studio located in the heart of Brooklyn Heights, specializing in Pilates and Barre classes, owned and operated by Brooklyn native Kristine Storie. Kristine describes her clients as, “dynamic and… Read More »Xtend Barre Brooklyn: Babies on Board!
When you find out you’re pregnant, a range of intense emotions engulf your every fiber. From fear to joy, the spectrum is wide and powerful. Hormones surge through your body at an alarming rate within… Read More »Pregnancy Loss Cards, Needed Comfort in a Time of Darkness
Third Root Community Health Center in Ditmas Park is now offering a wonderful, much-needed yoga program for “Wee Ones” which is one of the first of its kind to be offered South of Prospect Park. They… Read More »Wee Ones Yoga in Ditmas Park: 6 Weeks-3 Years
October has been deemed National Bullying Prevention Month. As we all know, bullying has extremely negative impacts upon all of our children. Both the bullies and the bullied have issues that are emotionally-rooted and need… Read More »Bullying: Awareness and Prevention
NEW YORK, NY — The Brooklyn Hospital Center (TBHC) was recently awarded the highest ranking of five stars from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) for its Rockwell Dialysis Center. It was one… Read More »Highest Quality Rating to Brooklyn Hospital for its Dialysis Service Center
Citi Bike is soon coming to Park Slope, as Community Board 6 (CB6) has unanimously approved the Department of Transportation’s plan for the expansion into the Park Slope and Gowanus neighborhoods, as well as Carroll… Read More »Citi Bikes are Coming to Park Slope (and tons of other parts of Brooklyn)
The time has come. It’s that definitive moment when, as a new mom, the need to get back into a life of regular exercise and a routine comes knocking hard. By “exercise,” I don’t mean… Read More »Meeting Yourself After Childbirth, Through Yoga