Education
April 3, 2024: Infant feeding talk, offered by Boston Area Doulas.
March 3, 2024: Nourishment and Nutrition Doula workshop with Meg Whithed, CHN, of Small Batch Wellness.
January 8, 2024: Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale training, presented by Michelle Visser and offered by Boston Area Doulas.
December 11, 2023: Understanding doula compensation through MassHealth, presented by Maia Raynor and offered by Boston Area Doulas.
November 30, 2023: Networking night with Boston Birth Village.
November 13, 2023: Loss presentation with Boston Area Doulas.
October 19-21, 2023: DONA International Conference.
October 19: Breech Birth webinar with Evidence Based Birth.
August 14, 2023: Overturning Hospital Bans with Evidence Based Birth, worth three contact hours.
July 25, 2023: Pelvic Floor and Core Health with Emily Everton PT, DPT of Embody Physical Therapy and Wellness, LLC.
June 14, 2023: Introduction to EFT with Kristen Curtis.
June 13, 2023: Became a DONA International Certified Birth Doula: Morgan Hayward, CD(DONA).
June 6, 7, 8, 2023: Webinar introduction to the Body Ready Method, three hours.
April 23, 2023: Debunking the Myths on Premature Rupture of Membranes, Group B Strep, and Waterbirth, one hour webinar offered by Evidence Based Birth.
March 15, 2023: What to do when your client is breech, a two hour workshop with Bonnie Rovics of Boston Hypnobirth.
March 13, 2023: Supporting LGBQ/T Families: Moving from Tolerance to Cultural Humility, three hour training with Rachel Hess.
February 17, 2023: Becoming a Confident Advocate Doula, hour and a half webinar, hosted by Intentional Birth.
January 19, 2023: Author talk with Chelsea Conaboy, writer of Mother Brain: How Science is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood.
October 18, 2022: Tour of the Mothers' Milk Bank Northeast.
July 18, 2022: VBAC, a webinar worth 1.5 nursing contact hours offered by Evidence Based Birth.
May 19, 2022: Breastfeeding - An Entirely New Approach, hour and a half webinar offered by Boston Doula Circle.
April 20, 2022: Failure to Progress or Failure to Wait: Top Myths Debunked by the Evidence, one hour webinar offered by Evidence Based Birth.
April 7, 2022: Expanding the Circle of Support in the Perinatal Period, a two hour workshop offered by MCPAP for Moms and Strong Roots Counseling.
March 14-15, 2022: Attended a Spinning Babies Workshop. Thirteen hours of continuing education.
January 31, 2022: Breastfeeding for Birth Professionals Workshop, three hours, with Julie Brill of WellPregnancy 3 CEUs awarded.
December 31, 2021: Hour and a half Birth Detective discussion with Gail Tully of Spinning Babies.
December 21, 2021: Two hour breastfeeding prenatal instruction with client with Julie Brill of WellPregnancy.
October 23-24, 2021: Spinning Babies 2021 World Confluence: Integrating A New Paradigm Virtual Conference. Completed 23.5 hours of continuing education.
October 21, 2021: Evidence Based Birth Tearing Webinar.
May 10, 2021: Massage Workshop for Birth Pros and Expectant Parents. Two hour class offered by Boston Doula Circle.
October 10, 2020: Breastfeeding Foundations for Perinatal Health Workers. Seven hour course offered by Boston Association For Childbirth Education & Nursing Mothers' Council.
October, 2019: Four Day DONA-Approved Birth Doula Training. Taught by Lorenza Holt, MPH, BCCE, BDT(DONA) of the Boston Association For Childbirth Education & Nursing Mothers' Council.
September 24, 2019: Introduction to Childbirth Education for Perinatal Health Workers. One day course offered by Boston Association For Childbirth Education & Nursing Mothers' Council.
May 7-8, 2019: Partners in Perinatal Health, 30th Annual Conference. Sponsored by Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Attended workshops on Narrative of Traumatic Birth; Ghosts in the Delivery Room - Supporting Survivors Giving Birth.
2016: Partners in Perinatal Health, 27th Annual Conference.
2015: Partners in Perinatal Health, 26th Annual Conference.
2014: Partners in Perinatal Health Conference, 25th Annual Conference.
2013: Brigham and Women's childbirth education class.
2009: Mount Auburn Hospital childbirth education class.
Master of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania.
Bachelors in Anthropology, Haverford College, 1998.
Cloth womb created in the 18th century by French midwife Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray.