BabyBites

It all started in February of 2006…

Laura Deutsch is the founder and creator of babybites.  Laura experienced the transition from being a working woman to stay-at-home mom challenging, lonely, and stressful.  She understood the importance of spending time with other new moms but found it difficult to find new mom friends. Laura’s vision was to create a venue where new moms could easily meet, socialize, and feel a sense of community with other new moms.

Laura held her first babybites luncheon in February 2006 on the Upper East Side and the response from the community was overwhelming!  Emails poured in from moms all over NYC asking Laura to bring babybites to their part of town.  She responded by starting babybites luncheons on the Upper West Side and in Murray Hill.  In response to more requests Laura enhanced the babybites program to include events for expectant moms, sample classes around town, parenting seminars, support groups, toddler activities, and special events for the whole family.

Fast forward several years and babybites has become a household name in the New York area mommy world.  babybites is the place for moms and moms-to-be to network, socialize, learn, share, play, and be part of a supportive community.

Come share a babybites experience and you too will meet other moms and form friendships that will last a lifetime!

Heather Ouida always thought that motherhood would get a whole lot easier once her two boys entered school.  She quickly realized that although she left the sleepless nights and toddler tantrums behind, a whole new set of age-specific challenges arose.  As she always did when she had parenting questions, Heather turned to Laura Deutsch, founder of babybites.

Together Laura and Heather co-founded kiddybites. They decided to use babybites’ already successful format and tailor it to the needs of parents with children aged 4+. Kiddybites’ mission is to provide advice and education through seminars and events, to help parents better support, understand and interact with their children.

Heather used her experience—both as a mom as well as a learning specialist with over 15 years of experience in London and at Dalton in Manhattan—to establish a lecture series that fosters the physical, emotional and intellectual development of children, facilitated by top child and parenting professionals.

Heather lives on the Upper East Side with her husband Jordan and their two sons. Here are some “fun-facts” that Heather posted about herself in one of her blog posts:

“In addition to all the standard, run-of-the-mill facts you can read about me on my bio, here are a few juicier tidbits: (1) nothing makes me laugh harder than hearing my sons laugh; (2) I eat one jar of Nutella a week (straight up); (3) I have been addicted to yoga for years and still can’t touch my toes; (4) when I met my husband he had a Mohawk; (5), I was once escorted at gunpoint from the Giza Pyramids in Egypt for mistakenly entering a restricted zone (my-bad); (6) Chuck Bass (enough said); and, (7) I am crazy-passionate about moms supporting each other without passing judgment.  Please see my earlierblog post, Non-Judgment day in the Village.”

Print

The Observer Playground -  babybites is listed as one of the top 10 resources for research-addicted New York City Parents in The Data Game.

The New York Times - We are mentioned in the Sunday Styles article “A Heroine of Cocktail Moms Sobers Up.”

Newsweek – We are quoted and detailed in the article “Moms Mean Business.”

Download the Newsweek article

New York Family – “With Baby Bites, Laura Deutsch Brings New Moms Together Over Good Eats and Good Parenting Advice”…

Time Out New York Kids – Laura Deutsch and Baby Bites were recently featured in the article “BYO Bambino” -Time Out New York Kids. Read what Alison Rosen said about us in the section “Boost mom confidence”.

Television

Today Show – Laura Deutsch and Baby Bites were recently featured on the Today Show to talk about trends in cocktail playdates.

Refund Policy for all babybites events

To receive a full refund you need to cancel at least 72 hours prior to an event. A credit to be used towards any future event will be given to those who cancel within 72 hours. Cancellations the day of an event will result in a credit unless it is a sold out event in which case a refund will not be issued. There are no refunds or credits given for no shows. Credits expire 3 months from the date of the missed event.