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Jada Shapiro and Anna Merrill are the Co-Directors of Birth Day Presence, which provides birth and postpartum support, childbirth education, and professional birth photography services to expectant and new families in the New York area. Founded in 2002, Birth Day Presence has assisted thousands of families in a nurturing, non-judgmental way. Birth Day Presence is also proud to have created and administered the Bellevue Hospital Birth Center Volunteer Doula Program, which, for five years, assisted over 500 underprivileged women per year through their childbearing experience.
See our mention in Time Out New York and in Block Magazine. See Jada featured as a pregnancy expert in FitPregnancy Magazine. See our Studio featured in a NY1 piece about great snacks from the new book, Feed the Belly. And learn about how Jada taught a childbirth class in centerfield at the Brooklyn Cyclones Baseball Game.
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"Birth Day Presence gets my highest recommendation. They saved my life! I had such a difficult time during labor and the whole birthing experience. Having a doula is a MUST - and Birth Day Presence is amazing and totally worth it." - Kerri Savage
"Jada worked wonderfully with the doctor, nurse and my husband. They were a real team. Yet, I felt that she was also my personal coach, no matter who else was there. She helped me labor at home much longer than I would have without her assistance. My first pregnancy/birth was a long, hard event. I had a birthing plan but when the pain hit me, all my plans were discarded--by me. Having Jada at my second birth really helped me stick to my plan." - Laura Washington
"Anna is a phenomenal birth doula! Her comfort measures exceeded my expectations and she put me in instant relaxation mode with her calm and gentle spirit. She gave my partner and I our space when needed and she was very respectful and wonderful with my twins. Every woman expecting deserves a doula like Anna. I guarantee you will not be disappointed." -Yarelis Rivera, mother to twins Naydin and Niyla
Jada Shapiro, co-Founder of Birth Day Presence, is a DONA trained birth and postpartum doula, certified Lamaze® childbirth educator and Level 1 Birthing From Within Mentor, professional birth photographer, and mother to a 3 year old girl. Her interest in childbirth began while attending and photographing a friend’s birth and has grown steadily ever since. Jada recently served a two-year term as the Co-Director of the Metropolitan Doula Group, which serves as a resource to the doula community within the metropolitan area. She also taught prenatal fitness at Equinox Gyms in Manhattan for Dancing Thru Pregnancy™.
Anna Merrill is a certified Lamaze® childbirth educator, certified birth doula (DONA), trained postpartum doula, and mother to a 1 year old girl. Anna has years of both counseling and teaching experience and became interested in childbirth after attending the birth of a close friend. She holds masters degrees in psychology and health education and is currently finishing her doctorate in health education at Columbia University. Anna is also a faculty childbirth instructor at St. Lukes Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan.
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