In Due Time Doula Care ~Jenn Beiswenger, Doula
About Doula Jenn B
Hi!
I’m Jenn. I’m a birth & postpartum doula. 🙂
I’m passionate about pregnancy, childbirth and child-rearing. My mission is to empower expectant mums to have the childbirth
experience they want, to support new mums through matrescence and to help families navigate the first precious months of bub’s life outside the womb. I will do what I can to help mum own the process of bringing her child into this world, and to have as positive an experience as possible.
I have experience with Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) & In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) ♥ home and hospital, water and land, vaginal and caesarean birth ♥ and lots of practice, as a mum and as a former volunteer with the 3Bridges Early Years Support Services, supporting mums & bubs through the trials and joys of early infancy. I’m also available to be a doula for older siblings in homebirth settings, to be their dedicated buddy throughout a labour & birth.
Babies have been my passion since I was a little girl. First it was baby dolls, then looking after other people’s babies; next I volunteered with teenaged mums and subsequently did an internship with a home & birthcentre midwife; eventually I was (am!) blessed with the the opportunity to mother my own child, then subsequently mothered new mums…. which brings us to the present day, when I support women through the process of matrescence: becoming a mum, joyfully and confidently. I loved being pregnant, bringing my eagerly-awaited son into this world and caring for him, and I love supporting childbearing women to have their dreams come true, too.
Credentials
• Graduate of the Australian Doula College Birth & Postnatal Doula training program – Feb 2023
• Certified Perinatal Integrative Medicine (PIM) -Friendly Practitioner – 2022
• Volunteer with 3Bridges Early Years Support Services – 2018-2021
• Bachelor of Arts in Biology & Human Sciences from Bryn Athyn College of the New Church; thesis: Touch And Its Impact In Infant Massage – 1999
• Certified as Infant Massage Instructor with International Association of Infant Massage – 1998
Professional interests & workshops/webinars attended:
• The Thompson Method Breastfeeding Program: Professional Edition
• Rethinking Trauma workshop for perinatal professionals supporting clients through birth trauma with Fiona Rogerson
• Gilligan’s Guide workshop for optimal positioning for birth
• Energetics of Birth workshop with Reiki for Birth
• The Obstetrician’s Dilemma 12-part online symposium with Intentional Birth
• Celebrating the Postpartum Renaissance webinar with Newborn Mothers
• Reproductive Justice: Not Just Abortion, Not Just Women virtual international conference
• Supporting Clients in Pleasurable Birth Masterclass with Ecstatic Birth
• various webinars & masterclasses with the Australian Doula College
• member of Homebirth NSW
• Homeopathy, aromatherapy & acupressure in labour & childbirth
• Reading, listening & learning all the time about all things pregnancy, labour, birth, postpartum & infancy from sources such as The Great Birth Rebellion & Midwives Cauldron podcasts!
• Passionate about babies & mothering since knee-high to a grasshopper 😁
A little more about me….
I am a wife (pastor’s wife, at that) and a mother, a daughter, sister, aunt and niece, teacher, artist and friend. Besides all things birth & baby, I love books, puzzles, spirituality, thrift shopping, Zentangle, emojis 😜 and healthy living. Born & raised in Canada, college-educated & married in the US, I’ve now lived in Georges River Council, NSW, Australia for over 10 years and I’m eager to support you in your childbearing process. ♥ ((And I’ll be moving to Toronto, Ontario, Canada at the end of 2024!))