Eden Bertrang, IBCLC, CCCE, CD(DONA) is an international board certified lactation consultant, a certified cooperative childbirth educator, and a certified birth doula. She has been supporting families through pregnancy and early parenting for over a decade.

Eden began attending births in the New York metropolitan area in 2006 and has been a DONA-certified doula since 2008. In 2008, she completed The Midwifery Assistant Training with Ina May Gaskin at The Farm and in 2010, traveled to Senegal to participate in a midwifery exchange program offered through The African Birth Collective. This outreach project gave her the opportunity to provide much-needed medical supplies to the birth center where she volunteered.

Motivated by her doula work and her experience as a midwife’s assistant, Eden certified as a cooperative childbirth educator through The Childbirth Education Association of Metropolitan New York (CEA/MNY). CEA/MNY is a nonprofit organization of childbirth professionals and consumer advocates who have been training childbirth educators and serving the birthing community for over 40 years. Since 2010, Eden has served on the board of directors of CEA/MNY. Eden has taught childbirth education classes for Pregnancy & Parenting and Stork & Cradle, and she currently teaches on-line childbirth education classes with Birthly. Eden also taught in a homeless shelter through a partnership between the We Care for Your Kids Foundation and Little Essentials, an organization committed to improving the health, safety, and wellbeing of children living in poverty.

It was the birth of her first child in 2012 that motivated Eden to become an international board certified lactation consultant (IBCLC). During her training, she was afforded the opportunity to participate in the Mt. Sinai Beth Israel Lactation Internship program and to be supervised by some of NYC’s most experienced lactation consultants in private practice. Eden is certified by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBLCE) and is a member of the New York Lactation Consultants Association (NYLCA), the Association Québécoise des Consultantes en lactation diplômées de l'IBLCE(AQC), and the Canadian Lactation Consultant Association (CLCA). Eden is currently serving as president on the board of the Association Québécoise des Consultantes en lactation certifiées(AQC). In addition to her private practice, she has worked for the NYC Department of Health Newborn Home Visiting Program and works at the Goldfarb Breastfeeding Clinic at the Jewish General Hospital and at the Queen Elizabeth Breastfeeding Clinic in Montreal. .

Eden feels blessed to have been involved in the transformative experience of pregnancy, birth and lactation, and looks forward to offering support to childbearing families in New York City and in Montreal, Canada.. Her compassion and insight create a safe environment for families during this intimate experience.

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