Meet Your Trainer --- Ann Grauer

DONA International Trainer since 1994

• Birth Doula Trainer
  • Postpartum Doula Trainer

• First doula in DONA International's history to become an Advanced Certified Birth Doula, AdvCD(DONA), and an Advanced Certified Postpartum Doula, AdvPCD(DONA). Awarded both in the innaugural year of 2015.

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                                    DONA International volunteer for over 25 years

                                    Past President, 2003-05

                                    Helped develop DONA's Pospartum Doula Training and Certification Program

                                    Director of Education, 2009-2015

                                    Postpartum Doula Sub-Committee Chair 2021-22

Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC, RLC) ​

• Since 2009
• Hospital IBCLC for 8 years
• Private Practice IBCLC
• Lactation Parenting Group Facilitator

Motherhood Studies Certified Practitioner​

• Certified 2021
• Group facilitator

Lamaze International Educator, teaching famlilies since 1989

• Certified Childbirth Educator (LCCE)
• Fellow in the American College of Childbirth Education (FACCE)
• 2007 Recipient of Lamaze's prestigious Elisabeth Bing Award "given for her tireless efforts on behalf of mothers, babies, and families and committment to Lamaze International"
• Taught hospital-based pregnancy, birth and parenting classes for 27 years
• Independent Childbirth Educator

RTS (Resolve Through Sharing)

Perinatal Bereavement Counselor since 1989

• ​Assist famililies with pregnancy, birth and newborn losses
• Provide training for those who work with families during this time

• Gottman Institute Bringing Baby Home Educator
• Trained to work with couples having babies
• Classes may be offered

• The Wonder Weeks Academy Foundations 
• Graduated 2020
• Babies and Their Development
• Foundational program for further study
• Supports the work done with families

• Faculty member of NYC Lamaze Program 
• Training new Lamaze Childbirth Educators via the Seminar

• TOTS: Tethered Oral Tissues Specially Trained Professional
• Completed 2021
• Training to Evaluate, Educate and Execute the TOTS oral assessment

• Postpartum Support International Group Facilitator
• PSI Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders: Components of Care

• Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale  Assessor
• First doula certified to perform the NBAS