Our First Childbirth Class Is a Success! The Birthing Center of NY’s first Childbirth class with Nurse Jackie
Moms-to-be joined us for our first childbirth class. The moms had a blast but were also able to spend one-on-one time with Nurse Jackie. Questions were encouraged and answered right there on the spot! Nurse Jackie taught the class in the only way she knows how by being patient, kind, understanding and nurturing.
The Birthing Center of NY now offers patient financing through Parasail. We are making our services accessible to all of our mothers to be! We’ve partnered with Parasail to help you find payment plans for your natural child birthing experience with us.
Parasail searches loan offers from the top online lenders without effecting your credit score! They then give you a list of lending options. You select the fixed-term loan option that’s right for you – all in less than 30 minutes!
Unlike credits cards, Parasail has fixed interest rates based on your financial information, no fees and affordable payments that can be spread out monthly to fit your budget. Now there is no reason for you to not experience the wonderful miracle of a natural child birth at the Birthing Center of NY.
If you are pregnant, think you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant and want to experience a natural birth at The Birthing Center of NY, give us a call and schedule a tour and we will answer all your questions.
Excitement was in the air at the opening of our birthing center. Natural childbirth in a home like setting is now a reality! Here are some picture highlights from the festive event.
The Birthing Center of NY would like to express our warmest gratitude to our esteemed guests who joined us during our grand opening.
Senator Martin Golden & John Quaglione
Monsignor David L. Cassato of St. Athanasius Church
Frances Vella-Marrone from US Congressman Daniel Donovan’s office
Winnie Greco & Candace Julian from Borough President Eric L. Adams office
Assemblyman Bill Colton District 47 & Nancy Tong, Community Relations Director
Michael Panepinto, Police officer from Community Affairs and 68th precinct
Irene Chu, Legislative Aide from Assemblyman Peter Abbate’s office
Peggy Sheng & George Liu, from CAIPA Exec Director & CEO
Kenny & Nicole Guan, Community Board 7 & Realtor
Sara Stern, CEO of Outreach
Robin Mui & May Liang, CEO of Sing Tao
Paul & Geri Cassone, The Guild For Exceptional Children and Community Board 10
Mary Quinones
Victor Huang, MBA, president of Sino American Health and Wellness Consulting, Inc. & Panda Travel SVP
Mei F. Chen, RPA, CMO of Sino American Health and Wellness Consulting, Inc.
We would also like to express our gratitude to all our other countless friends and our families for helping us make our grand opening special.
Brand new freestanding birthing center in Brooklyn!
By Caroline Spivack
They hope it’s the birth of something great.
The Birthing Center of New York celebrated its grand opening on Third Avenue with a ribbon cutting ceremony on March 10. The childbirth facility is intended for low-risk pregnancies and aims to provide a calm, homey environment without sacrificing the quality of care, said the center’s founder.
“We’re trying to be one step away from a living room and three steps away from a hospital,” said Bay Ridgite Dr. Lisa Eng, an obstetrician-gynecologist. “I felt the need to provide women a choice outside of the hospital. But we’re still, of course, going to practice good-faith, evidence-based medicine.”
Wedged between Senator and 67th streets, the Department of Health-approved facility has four delivery rooms, each tricked out with a sofa, a television, and a shower. Instead of a sterile white, each room is a soothing pastel color, with paintings of Disney characters and Chinese art.
Expecting mothers must meet with a financial officer, tour the facility, and have prenatal care before giving birth at the center, according to Dr. Eng. Staff members speak Spanish and Chinese, and Dr. Eng hopes to include Arabic-speaking doctors in the near future.
Doctors and nurses will help deliver the newborns, but if there are complications, the center has an arrangement with the Midwood Ambulance Service to transport patients to Lutheran Medical Center in Sunset Park.
The Bay Ridge facility is one of only two independent birthing centers in the borough — the Brooklyn Birthing Center in Midwood is the other. And with a spate of recent hospital closures, the center serves a vital need, said Eng.
“The choices in the area are dwindling — Long Island College and Victory Memorial hospitals recently closed — and so there is an over-burdening at other hospitals like Maimonides. Our center is another option and offers a safe, comfortable environment for women to have their babies.”
Reach reporter Caroline Spivack at cspivack@cnglocal.com or by calling (718) 260–2523. Follow her on Twitter @carolinespivack.
The Birthing Center of New York held its grand opening on Friday, March 10 with a celebration attended by the center’s doctors and midwives, as well as local leaders and invited guests.
The center, located at 6700 Third Avenue, is a private, freestanding birthing facility that provides care to women who want a natural birthing experience. It provides prenatal, intrapartum and postpartum care as well as annual check-ups, family planning and genetic testing for breast, ovarian and colon cancer.
Dr. Lisa Eng, who grew up in Bay Ridge, sees the center as an important option for women.
She told this paper, “This is a safe place for women who would like to deliver babies outside of a hospital but in a space safer than at home. This is just another choice; it’s all about choices.”
Owner and operator of the center Anthony Pennacchio echoed Eng’s remarks saying, “For women that have a non-complicated delivery, we give them a choice. A lot of women don’t necessarily want a hospital environment. We give them a different alternative.”
Guests at the celebration included Andrew Hoan, president of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, Paul Cassone from the Guild for Exceptional Children, State Senator Marty Golden, Assemblymember Bill Colton and representatives from the offices of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Congressmember Dan Donovan and Assemblymember Peter Abbate. Monsignor David Cassato from St. Athanasius Church delivered the invocation.
Golden addressed Dr. Eng saying, “You [Eng] have been fighting for this for a long time. The whole community is proud of you and your stamina. It has been a hard fight, a long fight and a good fight.”
Candace Julian, from the office of Borough President Eric Adams delivered a special proclamation from Adams. Saying March 10, 2017 was declared The Birthing Center of New York Day in Brooklyn.
Photos Courtesy of Brooklyn Media Group / Photos by Patrick Weinberg
The Birthing Center Of New York allows mothers to give birth in a warm and comfortable environment. Located in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Dr. Lisa Eng, a Chinese OBGYN, opened a unique Birthing Center.
Dr. Lisa Eng: “No one wants to go to the hospital to have children”. Some people want to be born at home, but also are worried that is not the safest place. This birthing center, provides the best of both worlds, the comfort of home and the safety of a hospital. The birthing Center is a DOH approved medical center. The Birthing Center of NY costs for delivery will be less than hospitals.
The Birthing Center of NY founder Dr. Eng:
“If you want to naturally give birth, are pregnant with a single baby, not twins, and do not want to undergo surgery to be a mother, here is the ideal place. We want to provide mothers a safe home like environment.”
The Birthing Center of NY’s manager Hanna: “water births can reduce pain because of the buoyancy in the water, negating the need for anesthetics”.
Some prospective mothers are afraid of pain, choosing cesarean section, however pediatrician Huang Yan believes “natural childbirth will be more beneficial to the baby”.
Pediatrician Huang Yan: “The general birthing channel is better, so the child can experience less complications, than those who are born via cesarean section”
At the ribbon-cutting ceremony, New York State Senator Marty Golden and other elected officials awarded praise & thanked Dr. Lisa Eng for providing mothers in the community quality birthing services and support.
“There are 2.7 million people in Brooklyn and the population of each district is growing rapidly. We need this center and we are very happy that the center is open to serve families, mothers and the community,” said New York State Senator Golden.
Also supporting the Birthing Center of NY is New York University Lutheran Hospital. Should a patient experience any complications, the patient can be immediately transferred to the hospital, which is located less than half a mile away. The Birthing Center of NY is now open to all mothers to be.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle Newspaper: Birthing Center Offers Moms Alternative to Hospital Deliveries
By Paula Katinas
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Dr. Lisa Eng estimates that she delivers 200 babies a year. But she said her most important trait is her ability to listen.
Listening to the needs of new mothers led her to establish The Birthing Center of NY, a natural childbirth facility she recently opened in Bay Ridge. The center will mark its grand opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on March 10.
Eng decided to open The Birthing Center after a focus group she conducted with mothers who had given birth in hospitals yielded surprising results. “They said that giving birth in a hospital, they did not feel like they were being listened to. They also felt like they were not being informed as to what was happening every step of the way,” she told the Brooklyn Eagle.
Eng vowed that her childbirth center would do things differently.
Located at 6700 Third Ave., the Birthing Center is a Department of Health-approved facility providing services to healthy women experiencing low-risk pregnancies.
If there is an unexpected complication during birth, however, the facility has an agreement with NYU Lutheran Medical Center to allow the mother to be transferred there via ambulance. The hospital, located at 150 55th St., is less than a mile away.
A tour of the 6,000-square-foot center given by Eng on Monday revealed a pleasant, soothing atmosphere with playful paintings of Mickey and Minnie Mouse on the walls, along with Chinese prints carefully selected by the doctor.
Anthony Pennacchio, the owner of Vanguard Computer Systems, is the center’s designer. He painted a delightful mural of a sunrise on the wall behind the front desk.
The facility has four delivery rooms, each painted in a different soft tone. The birthing rooms are decorated to resemble home, complete with beds, sofas and TVs. There is a shower in every delivery room.
The Birthing Center allows parents to feel at home while at the same time giving them access to professional medical care, Eng said. “We wanted to offer an alternative to lying in a bed hooked up to a monitor,” she added.
One of the delivery rooms has a Jacuzzi to allow the mother to feel warm water spraying her back. It is not used for the birthing process, however. “If the parents want the birth to take place in a tub, I suggest that they bring their own, for hygiene reasons,” Eng said.
The center is set up so that mothers can give birth and be discharged as soon as possible, according to Eng. “They should go home within six hours of the birth,” she said.
Natural childbirth is gaining popularity in the U.S., according to Eng. “Everything old is new again,” she said.
In 2015, 3.9 million babies were born in the U.S., according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Only 32 percent of the births were cesareans. The CDC also found a decrease in women under age 30 giving birth. The rate has increased for women between the ages of 30 and 44.
While she helps mothers bring babies into the world, Eng’s own early childhood was rough. She was abandoned as a baby on a park bench in her native China. Luckily, she was adopted and brought to the U.S. in 1966. She grew up in Flushing and is a graduate of Queens College.
Eng is Board Certified in obstetrics and gynecology.
She earned her medical degree from New York College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1990. She completed her residency at Lutheran Medical Center and has been in private practice since 1995. She trained under Dr. Donald Zarou, a legendary obstetrician who was affiliated for many years with Lutheran Medical Center. “He taught me everything I know,” Eng said.
Eng is also the owner of New Life OBGYN LLP, a thriving obstetrics and gynecology practice that has four locations in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
For more information on the birthing center, visit nybirthingcenter.com
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