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About Me
My name is Carmen and I have been working with childbearing families for over a decade. My passion started at the tender age of 18 when I attended as a support person for a friend's birth. Since that time I have become a mother to 3 beautiful children. I became a certified DONA birth doula in 2000. Being a doula really opened my eyes and my heart to the beauty and diversity of birth. I have supported more than 100 women and couples through this amazing life changing event. I have also taken ongoing perinatal studies in Childbirth Education through Childbirth International I am well educated in Post partum adjustment, breastfeeding, and pregnancy counselling.
My philosphy is to teach from an empowering perspective. I believe that birth, regardless of where it takes place, is a normal and natural part of being a woman. While I see the time and place for intervention, I believe that we need to learn, grow and educate in a way that covers the information while still leaving a woman feeling in control and prepared for her experience. I believe women should feel like pregnancy is not an illness and birth not a medical procedure. Women were designed to give birth!
I believe that women should feel powerful during their births, supported in their beliefs, cared for by those around them and unafraid. Women are amazing and when guided and given the proper tools to help them find their own self confidence in birth, they can have a satisfying experience and embrace the unique path their birth journey will take them on.