Casey Selzer
Founder and Primary Educator

Casey is a graduate of Columbia University's Nurse-Midwifery Program and a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator (CNM, RN, MSN, BSN and LCCE). After undergraduate studies in studio art and work on organic farms in California and Vermont, Casey found her life’s path in women’s health when she was trained through a Community Health Initiative in Massachusetts providing equitable free Postpartum Doula care in 2002. 

Casey provided full scope midwifery care to women and families in both public and private health care settings across NYC for over a decade. In May 2017, Casey was elected Co-Chair of the NYC Midwives Chapter (an affiliate of NYSALM) and was honored to serve a two year tenure, deepening her grasp of the birth landscape of NYC and building bridges with perinatal practitioners and allied health professionals across the city.

Sharing in this transformational process with families is both a privilege and a joy.

Casey brings to her teaching nearly two decades of diverse clinical experience having attended over 600+ births and the personal adventure of birthing 3 daughters, a big sister and identical twins. She lives, works and parents in Park Slope, Brooklyn. 

Leigh Kader
Fourth Trimester Educator

Leigh was propelled by the birth of her first child in 2008 to explore a career change. Leigh is a certified cooperative childbirth educator with the Childbirth Education Association of Metropolitan New York and a certified birth doula with the Doulas of North America. Leigh knows firsthand the benefits of a comprehensive childbirth education as well as the presence of continuous emotional and physical support during childbirth.

Experienced at supporting laboring women in a variety of birthing facilities from hospital and birthing center to home births, Leigh appreciates that childbirth is an intensely personal experience that each family defines differently. Her goal is to help women and their partners attain as positive a birth experience as possible. Leigh lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children and enjoys jogging in Prospect Park and catching up on 10 year old television shows.

Learn more about her in this 2015 interview.

Grace Veras Sealy
Breastfeeding + Newborn Support Educator

Grace is a Brooklyn based certified postpartum doula (CBI, 2015) and certified lactation counselor (ALPP 2012), having come to this work via birth doula work over many years. After the birth of her own children she realized how much more there is to becoming a parent after the big event of the birth is over, and this realization led to a whole new path of offering support to all kinds of clients after the birth of their babies.

Grace is also a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator. Helping parents prepare for and adjust to the transformation that comes with new parenthood (either with a first child or their siblings) is a sustaining passion for Grace. Not only does she love the babies (who doesn't love a squishy baby?) but also loves and nurtures the parents.

Grace lives in Ditmas Park, with her husband and 2 daughters, born in 2011 and 2014.

Natasha Dillahunt
Breastfeeding + Newborn Support Educator

Following the births of her two daughters in 2008 and 2011, Natasha discovered there was a huge gap in maternity care—nurturing support and education for the new family during the postpartum period (known as the Fourth Trimester). Expectant parents and their healthcare providers place huge emphasis on preparing for labor and delivery, and virtually none on preparing for the journey of parenthood. Compelled by her own postpartum experiences and by observing the struggles of other families, Natasha made a career change in 2012 to help close the gap. Working initially with home birth midwife Joan Bryson in 2013, she is now a DONA-Certified Postpartum Doula and Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC).

Natasha provides caring, nonjudgemental, evidence-based postpartum support for new families, and is committed to the promotion, protection and support of breastfeeding and human lactation as a cultural norm. She has experienced firsthand the benefits of "mothering the mother"—from developing a strong mother-infant bond and establishing successful and long
term breastfeeding to warding off depression and peacefully transitioning and adapting to life with a new baby. Numerous studies, anthropological and otherwise, have shown this to be true: Consistent and caring support at the beginning of the parenting journey leads to positive long term outcomes for the family unit.

Natasha lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters. She loves cooking, reading, traveling, bike riding and long walks in Prospect Park.