Pregnancy & Childcare

  • Ricki Lake

  • Author of YOUR BEST BIRTH.

    Ricki Lake is an actress, host of the long-running Ricki Lake talk show, and natural childbirth advocate, based in Los Angeles and New York. In YOUR BEST BIRTH, Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein inspire women to take back the birth experience with:

    The author can speak to:

    • A look at both the positive and negative effects of epidurals, Pitocin, and other drugs and interventions
    • The pros and cons of induction versus allowing your labor to progress naturally
    • A truthful perspective on our country’s C-section rate
    • Inspirational, never-before-told birth stories from respected celebrities including Cindy Crawford, Laila Ali, Kellie Martin, and Melissa Joan Hart.

  • Robie Harris is an award-winning children’s book author who addresses the common occurrence of sibling rivalry and can discuss her writing about the inner life and real feelings of young children.

  • William M.D.

  • Author of various titles in the SEARS PARENTING LIBRARY, Sears is an expert pediatrician who guides parents through the early stages of childcare through the teenage years.

    The author can speak to:

    • building a foundation, through healthy eating and child-parent bonding, that will serve parents well for the length of their child’s development. 
    • birth, nutrition, general health, getting a baby to sleep, and breastfeeding.

  • Sherman J. Silber M.D.

  • Dr. Sherman Silber is the author of the classic guide to overcoming infertility, HOW TO GET PREGNANT.

    The author can speak to:

    • How women can measure just where they are on their biological clock and how much time they have remaining to safely and easily conceive. 
    • Whether the use of Seasonale and other menstrual-suppression tactics affect fertility? Dr. Silber can talk on this very hot current topic and let young women know whether the convenience of skipping their monthly period will affect their ability to get pregnant later.
    • How late is too late? By age 35 a woman’s infertility rate jumps to 25%.  At 40, it is 70%, and as you approach 43+ it jumps to 97%.  Dr. Silber can let a women know when she is most fertile and what risks arise the longer she waits to attempt conception.
    • What “egg freezing” actually entails, the benefits of the process and the various options. Dr. Silber can give sound research and advice on which of the two processes, Vitrification or Ovarian Tissue Harvesting, might be best for a particular patient.