Patient Education

Clinical Services: Pediatrics

Weill Cornell Medical Associates has partnered with parenting experts to offer you easy access to a variety of different education and support programs right in the comfort of our offices. Ask about programming available at our different locations. Both Private Consultations and Group Workshops are offered.

Why Parent Education?

Early parent-child interactions shape a child's future. Providing parents with information and support helps them navigate through the challenges of parenting and enhances the quality of the parent-child relationship. Parent education expands the scope of primary care and promotes the healthy emotional growth and development of children.

Lynn Stoller, LMSW

Ms. Stoller received her Master's Degree in Social Work from New York University in 1981. Her background in hospital social work, and more specifically Maternal Child Health, led Lynn into the field of Parent Education. She discovered her true passion of working with families and guiding them through life's transitions and served for 15 years as the Program Supervisor and New Parent Warmline Supervisor at St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan Parent Education Program.

Lynn completed a Two-Year Training Program of the Infant Parent Study Center at the Institute for Infants, Children & Families, Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services in 2003. She participated during 2008-2012 in an advanced weekly seminar focused on the study of research based mother-infant face-to-face communication conducted by Beatrice Beebe, Ph.D. Ms. Stoller currently serves as a Field Instructor for graduate students of NYU Silver School of Social Work.

PARENT GUIDANCE FROM BIRTH TO SCHOOL AGE

Understand how the early years shape your child's future. Promote the healthy emotional growth and development of your child. Enhance the quality of the parent-child relationship. Benefit from personalized support and information.

  • Maternal Mental Health - Support to expectant and new mothers including questions or concerns about postpartum blues and depression.
  • Adjusting to Parenthood
  • Crying and Comfort
  • Feeding and Sleep
  • Returning To Work
  • Looking For Caregivers
  • Tips For Separation
  • Play and Learning- Cognitive-Motor Development, Toys For The Young Baby, Language Development
  • Socialization- Playing with Other Children
  • Communication Techniques
  • Limit Setting
  • Sibling Rivalry

Private Sessions or Parenting Groups
Do you have your own network of friends who want to come together for a group? Ask about a customized workshop.

For more information please contact Lynn Stoller at listoller@aol.com or 
917-763-2712

Fern Drillings, RN, MSN

Fern Drillings is a certified childbirth educator and a certified CPR instructor. She has been a childbirth educator, CPR instructor and lactation consultant for over twenty-five years. Fern received her Bachelor of Nursing from the University of Rochester and has a Master's of Nursing with specialty in Women's Health Care from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the faculty of the New York University School of Nursing and of the Adelphi University School of Nursing

CHILDBIRTH EDUCATION
  • Anatomical and Physiological
    Changes of Pregnancy
  • Signs of Labor
  • Stages of Labor and Delivery
  • Fetal Heat Monitoring
  • Medications Used in Labor
  • Forceps, Vacuums
  • Caesarian Sections
  • Lamaze Breathing Techniques
  • Stages of Labor Video
  • What To Expect Postpartum
  • Breastfeeding
  • Newborn Care
CPR AND FIRST AID
  • Baby proofing your home
  • Poisoning
  • Bleeding- Scrapes & Lacerations, Wound Care, Nosebleeds, Signs of Internal Bleeding
  • Falls- Head injuries, Fractures, Possible Spine Injury
  • Burns
  • Eye Injuries
  • Allergies
  • Seizures
  • Communicable Diseases

For More Information Visit 

Carolyn Migliore, RN, MSN, LCCE, IBCLC, CIMI

Carolyn Migliore is internationally recognized and certified Childbirth Educator, Lactation Consultant and Infant Massage Instructor. She is a Clinical Nurse Specialist, and is currently a clinical instructor on staff at New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center. She has been teaching childbirth education classes in the hospital and private settings since 1981.

LAMAZE CHILDBIRTH PREPARATION
  • Signs of labor
  • Complete labor and delivery process
  • Coach's role
  • Pain relief
  • Cesarean birth
  • Adjustment to parenthood
  • Fitness and relaxation exercises
  • Breathing techniques for labor and delivery
  • Baby Care
  • Breastfeeding

A series of three (3) three hour classes are offered in the evenings or for your convenience (3) three hour classes on weekends. 
Classes are held 3 evenings 6-9 pm., or 3 weekends 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. 
Private classes are also available upon request.

For schedule, registration, and fee information, 
please call (212) 772 3893 or (917) 520 3719.