Meet Your Trainer --- Ann Grauer

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 Programs   
  • 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

Maternal Mental Health Certificate Training for Mental Health and Clinical Professionals

Postpartum Support International and The Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health present a Certificate Training for Mental Health and Clinical Professionals.                           ​​​                      This course qualifies as Step 1 for the PMH-C.

                               Completed 2024

IBCLC Masterclass

• Oral Habilititation of the Breastfeeding Dyad: a Masterclass for the IBCLC
• Completed 2023

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

• 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
• PSI Maternal Mental Health Professional Certificate Training

Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale  Assessor

• First doula certified to perform the NBAS