Website: www.BirthingHandsDC.com Phone: (202) 236-1764 Type of Practice: Other Clients per Month: 2 to 4 Birth Doula Experience: 8 years and 500 births attended Area of practice: Washington, DC Travel range: 40 miles Travel comments/restrictions: Languages spoken: English, French, Spanish
Birth Doula Certifications
DONA (DONA International)
Breastfeeding Certifications
La Leche League Peer Couselor
La Leche League Peer Counselor Program Administrator
La Leche League Brerastfeeding Peer Counselor and Program Manager
Childbirth Educator Certifications
CAPPA (Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association)
Other Credentials
LM (Licensed Midwife)
CPM (Certified Professional Midwife)
NRP (Neonatal Rescusitation), Phlebotomy and IV Venipucture, BSL and CPR, Perinatal Loss Training Certification
College Education
BA/BS
MA/MS
Specialized training or previous experience:
Teens
Over 40
Families conceiving with ART and IVF
VBAC
Home Birth
Multiples
Clients on bed rest
Adoption
Relinquishing mothers
Special needs babies
Prematurity
Twins
High risk
Expected stillbirth
Single parents
Cesarean birth
Waterbirth
Special services available:
Placenta encapsulation
Birth Pool rental
Acupressure and/or acupuncture in labor
Monitrice services
Relevant volunteer or advocacy work: DC State Representative, International Center for Traditional Childbearing
African American Breastfeeding Alliance
Mocha Moms - D.C. Chapter, S.E.
La Leche League International
Metro Breastfeeding Village
DC Breastfeeding Coalition
DONA
ALACE
CAAPA
Participant on the District of Columbia’s Infant and Children Fatality Review Committees
Member of the District area Advisory Board for First Candle
Attends hospital births? All Hospitals Attends birth center births? All Birth Centers I serve as a birth doula at hospitals in the greater Washingtn DC metro area. Attends home births? Any Home Birth I am Certified Professiional Midwife licensed in the Comonwealth of Virginia. I salso serve as a midwife birth assistant and provide these services to home birth clients who are having babies with local home birth midwives or with the midwives at Birth Care and Women's Health in Va. I trained wirh Ina May Gaskin and the midwives at The Farm.
