Stork and Cradle

Having tried to book a breastfeeding class for over a week now and I have followed up twice and still nobody has bothered to get back to me, despite two emails and a form filled in with all my insurance details. Waste of time!

Highly recommend you make sure what your insurance is covering and what Tammera is charging you! Because she is charging the insurance for you and the baby!

I came to Tamara for a private lactation consultation, and she was incredibly helpful. I am a new mom to a 2.5 week old baby boy — we have been experiencing breastfeeding challenges, and after only one session with Tamara, my son is eating much better, growing, and getting the nutrition he needs. Tamara gives incredibly understandable, practical, straightforward advice, and she has an overall warm and friendly demeanor to boot. I highly recommend Tamara to any new moms in need of breastfeeding support!

Tamara is excellent and the class is super educational. My wife and I would definitely recommend Stork & Cradle.

This is a review specifically for Tamara Hawkins’ as a lactation consultant.
I cannot recommend her highly enough to anyone seeking a bit of support with breastfeeding, be it with a newborn or transitioning back to work/​pumping, etc.
I needed some help getting my newborn daughter to properly latch and additional help dealing with all the fun issues that accompany one’s milk supply showing up – Tamara gave me detailed tips on how to handle both and, within days, both were well on track. Additionally, Tamara has provided very valuable email support.
For anyone who truly wants to breastfeed and is having difficulty or needs some reassurance, please do yourself a favor and call Tamara. She’ll show up with her scale, great knowledge and a warm personality and she’ll make all your concerns go away.

After reading good reviews I decided to take some classes here. The breastfeeding class with Tamara had a lot of good information and she was very knowledgeable. Every piece of information was useful, including brands she recommends for various things. She also had props to do demos. So far this was my favorite class, and I highly recommend it. Book with Tamara only. Also, the Yogi Beans location is so much more comfortable than the one on 33 & Madison, you sit on the floor here with lots of pillows and blankets. Many women came by themselves, but two of us brought our husbands along and I am glad I did. Its a lot of info, so it helps if someone else can remember. Also, men need to know the trouble we women go through!
I took the child care and safety class with Maureen. The location was 33 & Madison, very uncomfortable to sit on the chairs for such a long time. The class was okay. Someone else I spoke to also took the child care class and liked it a lot (not sure if she took Maureen’s class), for me it was very disappointing. First of all, it was very repetitive, a lot of information could have been condensed. The first hour passed by like that. We did learn how to tie a diaper, swaddle, bathe the baby, and the process at hospitals after the baby is born. A lot of the information about hospitals is online and I didn’t find it that necessary to take a class for it. In addition, I come from a different country and swaddling, bathing, and other styles shown here are so standard in my country that having my mother over is enough for me to learn. I guess if someone is not expecting help from say a parent, it makes sense to learn these things, but for me I already knew all this information. As for diapers, the nurse in the hospital can teach you that as well. So overall the class didn’t deliver as much as I expected. The person conducting didn’t have that much knowledge outside of the topics she had prepared, and didn’t really give recommendations on brands, etc. For example, Tamara knew everything about breastfeeding including brands for nursing pads, bottles, she also gave recommendations on nanny agencies, etc. This teacher didn’t really know much beyond the topics she had prepared. Since she herself is a post-​partum nurse, her knowledge was more about the hospital process. So overall I was disappointed with this class and in hindsight could have skipped it or taken one that Tamara conducts if any.
I also took the twins class. The location again was 33 & Madison, but slightly more comfortable than child care because we were given pillows and extra chairs to put up our feet. It was good — Tamara has a wealth of knowledge and each time I attend her class I feel like there is so much good information and its hard to keep track. She touched upon medications, premies, birthing aspects related to twins and multiples, postpartum, breastfeeding, etc.
I really liked Tamara’s classes and highly recommend signing up with her. They get sold out VERY quickly, I had to book well in advance. In fact, I waited for the weekend to book one class and when I checked two days later, it was completely sold out. So book fast!
I didn’t get a chance to do the childbirth class so cannot speak to it.

My wife and I took the childbirth preparation class at the 33^rd and Madison location and would recommend it to anyone. It was a long day and a lot of information to absorb but the mix of videos, demonstrations, illustrations and exercises kept it interesting and the instructor was fantastic (very knowledgeable, funny and eager to answer everyone’s questions).

I had the pleasure of attending a child birthing class and can I tell you when I left the class I said to my self «I’m getting pregnant tomorrow». Tamara was just that AMAZING. She is so knowlegable, so engaging and simple cares about your birthing experience being a pleasurable one. She is ensures that you walk away with no question unanswered. My friend (my reason for attending the class) was extremely happy with the wealth of information she received and couldn’t wait to share it all with her husband.

Do yourself a favor and take Tamara’s class. She came recommended from my obgyn and my husband and I were so glad we signed up. She is clearly an expert in her field, as well as very warm and easy to talk to… what more could you want?!
Thanks again Tamara!

Tamara is awesome! We took all of her classes (the weekend all day birthing class, the infant CPR, the child care and the breast feeding class), and she is the best. We found her to be incredibly knowledgeable, kind, and an excellent teacher. I really feel a lot more confident having a baby now that I have taken these classes. She also really opened up our eyes to multiple birthing options that we hadn’t really considered before, and she did so in a way that was never judgmental. She’s smart and knows what she is talking about which is exactly what you need when you are a little lost and pregnant with your first little one!
The only reason why I am giving 4 stars instead of 5 is because the classes take place in a location with really uncomfortable fold up chairs. My husband was uncomfortable, so you can imagine what it was like for a pregnant woman to sit that long in one of those chairs.