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Educational Background |
- Bachelor’s of Science in Biology (University of Texas at Dallas)
- DONA-approved birth doula training
- Terra Association’s labour support program training
- Labour massage skills workshop
- CAPPA-approved postpartum doula training
- CAPPA-approved childbirth educator training
- Emergency (delivery) skills workshop
- Waterbirth skills workshop
- Breastfeeding support skills workshop
- Breastfeeding activism conference (Grant MacEwan College)
- Environment & birth conference (CAPPA Canada)
- Guidance & counseling coursework
- Homeopathy for the Family course
- Brio Birth training for experienced educators
Experience
- Hospital births
- Home births
- Water births
- VBACs (Vaginal Births After Cesarean)
- Planned & unexpected inductions
- Unexpected & emergency cesareans
- Twins
- Mothers aged 15-40 years of age
- Single mothers
- Low-income families
- Immigrant families
- Multi-cultural/multi-faith couples
- Mothers/couples with a learning disability
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