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“Thank you for helping me through the end of my pregnancy and through labor! I am very grateful for your experience, confidence and knowledge. I really felt I could trust you and was comforted by your presence!”
1996 CEDEN, Education for the pregnant teen training.
I taught childbirth education and parenting skills to pregnant teens in their homes. I also attended their births as a support person.
1997 Volunteer Mentor, El Buen Samaritano Austin TX
I was a mentor and educator for women who were experiencing crisis during pregnancy. My jobs included prenatal education, birth support and parenting education.
1997 Round Rock School District, Pregnant Teen Education Program.
I taught childbirth education and parenting skills to pregnant teens in their homes.
04/2001 Completed a DONA approved doula training with Penny Simkin
06/2001 Hypnobirthing childbirth classes
08/2001 DONA 2001 International Conference Milwaukee WI
Sessions included:
- Nurturing women: Integrating water into maternity care with Barbara Harper
- From cloth burgers to lunch boxes: new ways to learn about breastfeeding
- “Post term” pregnancy: What does evidence tell us?
- The myth of homebirth in the hospital
09/2001 Bradley childbirth classes
09/2001 Adult, Infant and Child CPR
09/2001 First Aid Basics
11/2001 Completed a DONA approved advanced doula training.
Sessions included:
- Hi Tech birth and the doula’s role
- Staying positive and nurturing in difficult situations
- Building a nurturing doula community
- Advanced comfort measure techniques
- Childhood abuse and the childbearing woman
2002-2004 Childbirth Educator, The Up Connection
I taught childbirth education to teens in both a classroom setting and on an individual basis.
2003-2006 Staff Doula, The Birth Place at Columbia Hospital WI
I was an on-call doula for the first hospital based doula program in Wisconsin.
7/2003 DONA International Conference San Francisco
Sessions included:
- Listening to mothers The First National US Survey of Women’s Childbearing Experience with Debra Pascali-Bonaro, BEd, CD(DONA) and Carol Sakala, PhD
- Safe and Effective Maternity Care
- Colic, the fourth trimester and the calming reflex with Harvey Karp, MD
- Marketing your doula practice
- How to maintain high quality maternity care
- They said it couldn’t be done… The UCSD heart and hands volunteer doula program
- The selling of the cesarean section Madison Avenue Comes to Medicine with Mayri Sagady, CNM, MSN
- Positioning to relieve pain and enhance labor progress
- Helping parents following the death of a stillborn, premature infant or newborn baby with Marshall Klaus, MD
- The Irreducible Needs of the Baby with John Kennell, MD
7/2004 DONA International Conference New Orleans
Sessions included:
- Doulas- A bridge over troubled waters; Protecting the mother and baby continuum
- Pelvic Power
- The impact of early trauma on the childbearing woman
- Establishing a Community based Volunteer doula program
- Postpartum Culture: The loss of lying-in time
- There’s more in 2004: Articles that impact doula practice
- I’m listening: Responding to the emotional needs of pregnant and postpartum women and their families
Jazzing up your teaching - Helping parents understand their newborn: The clinical neonatal behavioral assessment scale for birth and postpartum doulas
- Boundaries, Personal safety and self-defense of the doula
- The effects of a birth doula- seven weeks postpartum
2002-06 Executive Director, The Doula Connection
I founded this 501C3 program to benefit at risk women and teens in need of doula services.
2003 Ina May Gaskin presentation on Maternal Mortality
2003-06 Midwifery Study group in Prep for NARM
12/2003 Neonatal Resuscitation Certification with Karen Strange
02/2004 ALACE Labor assistant training
2004-06 Homebirth Midwife Apprenticeship
1/2014 DONA Postpartum Doula training
2014 Adult and Infant CPR/First Aid Certification
6/2014 Hypnobirthing Class Series the BEC
7/2014 DONA Birth Doula and Breastfeeding Training
12/2014 Evidence Based Birth course titled: Evidence-Based Care for Suspected Big Babies
2/2015 Spinning Babies Workshop
4/2015 Completed HUG your baby “Helping parents understand the language of their newborn” workshop.
8-2015 Evidence Based Birth instructor training
3/2016 Flock Yeah Advanced Doula Training
4/2016 CAPPA Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula
1996 CEDEN, Education for the pregnant teen training.
I taught childbirth education and parenting skills to pregnant teens in their homes. I also attended their births as a support person.
1997 Volunteer Mentor, El Buen Samaritano Austin TX
I was a mentor and educator for women who were experiencing crisis during pregnancy. My jobs included prenatal education, birth support and parenting education.
1997 Round Rock School District, Pregnant Teen Education Program.
I taught childbirth education and parenting skills to pregnant teens in their homes.
04/2001 Completed a DONA approved doula training with Penny Simkin
06/2001 Hypnobirthing childbirth classes
08/2001 DONA 2001 International Conference Milwaukee WI
Sessions included:
- Nurturing women: Integrating water into maternity care with Barbara Harper
- From cloth burgers to lunch boxes: new ways to learn about breastfeeding
- “Post term” pregnancy: What does evidence tell us?
- The myth of homebirth in the hospital
09/2001 Bradley childbirth classes
09/2001 Adult, Infant and Child CPR
09/2001 First Aid Basics
11/2001 Completed a DONA approved advanced doula training.
Sessions included:
- Hi Tech birth and the doula’s role
- Staying positive and nurturing in difficult situations
- Building a nurturing doula community
- Advanced comfort measure techniques
- Childhood abuse and the childbearing woman
2002-2004 Childbirth Educator, The Up Connection
I taught childbirth education to teens in both a classroom setting and on an individual basis.
2003-2006 Staff Doula, The Birth Place at Columbia Hospital WI
I was an on-call doula for the first hospital based doula program in Wisconsin.
7/2003 DONA International Conference San Francisco
Sessions included:
- Listening to mothers The First National US Survey of Women’s Childbearing Experience with Debra Pascali-Bonaro, BEd, CD(DONA) and Carol Sakala, PhD
- Safe and Effective Maternity Care
- Colic, the fourth trimester and the calming reflex with Harvey Karp, MD
- Marketing your doula practice
- How to maintain high quality maternity care
- They said it couldn’t be done… The UCSD heart and hands volunteer doula program
- The selling of the cesarean section Madison Avenue Comes to Medicine with Mayri Sagady, CNM, MSN
- Positioning to relieve pain and enhance labor progress
- Helping parents following the death of a stillborn, premature infant or newborn baby with Marshall Klaus, MD
- The Irreducible Needs of the Baby with John Kennell, MD
7/2004 DONA International Conference New Orleans
Sessions included:
- Doulas- A bridge over troubled waters; Protecting the mother and baby continuum
- Pelvic Power
- The impact of early trauma on the childbearing woman
- Establishing a Community based Volunteer doula program
- Postpartum Culture: The loss of lying-in time
- There’s more in 2004: Articles that impact doula practice
- I’m listening: Responding to the emotional needs of pregnant and postpartum women and their families
Jazzing up your teaching - Helping parents understand their newborn: The clinical neonatal behavioral assessment scale for birth and postpartum doulas
- Boundaries, Personal safety and self-defense of the doula
- The effects of a birth doula- seven weeks postpartum
2002-06 Executive Director, The Doula Connection
I founded this 501C3 program to benefit at risk women and teens in need of doula services.
2003 Ina May Gaskin presentation on Maternal Mortality
2003-06 Midwifery Study group in Prep for NARM
12/2003 Neonatal Resuscitation Certification with Karen Strange
02/2004 ALACE Labor assistant training
2004-06 Homebirth Midwife Apprenticeship
1/2014 DONA Postpartum Doula training
2014 Adult and Infant CPR/First Aid Certification
6/2014 Hypnobirthing Class Series the BEC
7/2014 DONA Birth Doula and Breastfeeding Training
12/2014 Evidence Based Birth course titled: Evidence-Based Care for Suspected Big Babies
2/2015 Spinning Babies Workshop
4/2015 Completed HUG your baby “Helping parents understand the language of their newborn” workshop.
8-2015 Evidence Based Birth instructor training
3/2016 Flock Yeah Advanced Doula Training
4/2016 CAPPA Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula
Contact Me
“Thank you for helping me through the end of my pregnancy and through labor! I am very grateful for your experience, confidence and knowledge. I really felt I could trust you and was comforted by your presence!”