Our Services
Cocoon services currently include birth & breakfast, wellness, birth control/fertility, and lactation.
Birth & Breakfast
Cocoon Wellness and Birth Center's unique "birth and breakfast" experience brings the comfort of a vacation getaway to your labor and birth! We offer a cozy home environment where you and your birth support team can spend your labor and immediate recovery following your birth. Our specialist midwifery and nursing staff will always be close by if you need support… and to clean up after the big event! In the safety of our spacious remodeled historic residence, you can make your birth experience as intimate and undisturbed as you desire. Bundle up your pregnancy and birth care with:
- prenatal visits
- birth and breakfast room access
- postpartum support and home visits
- newborn care
- ...and so much more!
Your care plan will be customized to fit your goals for your birth experience.
We are very sad that we are unable offer vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) care here.
Holistic Wellness Care
Achieve your wellness goals at Cocoon Wellness and Birth! We embrace multiple domains-- including emotional, mental, spiritual and physical-- to support your holistic wellbeing. Even if you have not used our birth and breakfast facilities during your birth, you are welcome to engage us for regular healthcare across your lifespan! We offer:
- annual exams
- primary care
- gynecological services
- trauma aware care
- birth control
Midwife Jen will be your ally as you strive for optimal wellbeing!
Seeking Pregnancy?
Sometimes, what should be natural does not come easily. If you are still trying to conceive, she can teach you how to optimize your fertility in many ways, including cycle charting and nutritional counseling for you and your partner. Cocoon Wellness and Birth Center provides non-judgmental support at every stage of your reproductive journey.
We believe you can do it-- but that does not mean you need to do it alone!
Avoiding Pregnancy?
We can help you find the pregnancy prevention method that works best for you at this time in your life. You know what has and has not worked well for you in the past, and we will listen to your experience and priorities in order to help you get the best fit for your lifestyle and medical needs at this stage of your life. The best choice for you will be different whether you're a childless teenager, hoping for a pregnancy in a couple years, never want to get pregnant, or are in perimenopause. Whatever your goals, we'll help you figure it out.
Lactation Care & Services
Breastfeeding is one of the building blocks for health and is a natural progression from pregnancy to continue to nourish and grow your baby. Nursing isn't always instinctual, especially at the start.
Professional lactation support and having a breastfeeding tribe are essential to success. Services are available to the community and you do not have to be an existing Cocoon client.
Some Of The Things We Help With:
- Latching difficulties
- Sore nipples or painful latch
- Oversupply or low supply
- Mastitis, plugged ducts (ductal narrowing), or thrush
- Pumping
Click below for more information.
Interested in Donating?
Do you have a abundant collection of frozen breastmilk taking up your freezer space? Do you desire to help preemie babies or medical complex infants receive life saving breastmilk?
Cool!
You could potentially be a milk donor and help other babies received nourishment and the immune benefits breastmilk offers.
Learn more about breastmilk donation @ https://nymilkbank.org/
Cocoon is an approved New York State Milk Depo for breastmilk.
Classes & Groups
We offer great classes and groups for anyone who wants to have a more in-depth understanding of birth, their newborn, and the transition to parenthood. In addition to an abundance of essential information, our classes create opportunities to evaluate your core beliefs and values around your introduction to parenthood.
Classes are typically held on the 2nd Saturday from 10 am-4 pm in a two-part series. Private childbirth education classes are available on request. Spouses, partners, and/or support person(s) are encouraged to attend.