Meet Your Trainer --- Ann Grauer
AdvCD/AdvPCD(DONA), PDT(DONA), LCCE, FACCE, IBCLC, RLC
DONA International Trainer since 1994
- Postpartum Doula Trainer 2004 - present
Birth Doula Trainer 1994 - 2023, retired
- Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula
- Advanced Certified Birth Doula and Advanced Certified Postpartum Doula
- First doula in DONA International's historty to become AdvCD(DONA), AdvPCD(DONA)
- Awarded both in the innaugural year of 2015
- 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
- Oral Habilititation of the Breastfeeding Dyad: a Masterclass for the IBCLC
- Completed 2023
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
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
- Completed 2020
- Babies and Their Development
- Foundational program for further study
- Supports the work done with families
TOTS: Tethered Oral Tissues Specialy 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
- Awards
- DONA International's Fouder Phyllis Klaus Award 2022
- Lamaze International Elisabeth Bing Award 2007
- USLCA Best Overall Poster Presentation 2012--co-creator with Diane Oakland
- Conference Presenter
- Lamaze International
- DONA International
- Wisconsin Association of Lactation Consultants Quarterly
- La Leche League International Wisconsin
- Published Author
- Nurturing the New Family by Jackie Kelleher--chapter author
- Letters from Motherless Daughters by Hope Edelman--story author
- Journal of Perinatal Education
- The International Doula
- International Journal of Childbirth Education
- Lamaze Parents magazine
- Expert Contributor/Source
- Yahoo News
- Science and Sensibility
- She Knows: Pregnancy and Parenting
- Storknet
- Washington Family
- NewsforParents.org
- Parents.com
- LamazeforParents.org
- ModernMedicine.com
- Time magazine
- The New York Times
- The Wallstreet Journal
- NBC.com
- HealthNewsDigest
- St. Petersburg Times
- NYMetroParents.com
- Experience in the Following:
- Establishing and running a hospital-based birth doula program that follows DONA's Code and Standards
- Facilitating New Parents Groups since 1992
- Facilitating a group for pregnancy and postpartum mood disorders since 2008
- Resolve Through Sharing Counselor for pregnancy loss
- Consultant to hospital and commmunity-based doula groups around the globe
Can you tell I've been blessed? It truly is my joy to help others realize their dreams of becoming doulas.
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