Meet
The Doulas
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Christine
Kierstead,
CD
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Lucinda
McGovern Birth and Postpartum doula Lucinda McGovern has been an ALACE-certified childbirth educator for ten years and teaches group and individual classes. She is also certified by ALACE as a labor assistant and has provided labor and postpartum doula support in the area for about eight years. She works as a birth assistant at homebirths in practices in Massachusetts and Vermont, and is working towards taking the certified professional midwife exam. In the past, Lucinda has been a family daycare provider, homeschooled her three children and certified as a teacher. She currently also provides emergency and respite foster care. |
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Annique Sampson Annique Sampson, CPM, holds an Associates of Science degree in Midwifery and is nationally certified by the North American Registry of Midwives. She has had the great honor and pleasure of attending over 130 births since 2003. Her midwifery training included homebirths in New England, water birth in free-standing birth centers in New Mexico and Florida, and a special volunteer opportunity serving low-income women in an out-of-hospital birth clinic in the Philippines. She has also volunteered as a labor support doula in several hospitals around the country. She is strong advocate of evidence-based care and informed choice, providing information and support for couples as they navigate through the labyrinth of choices in today¡¯s maternity care. Annique believes birth is not only a physical event, but an emotional, mental and spiritual rites of passage. She is passionate about helping women and couples heal fears around the birthing process, and supports them in discovering and strengthening their inner resources. Annique is a Childbirth Educator in the Birthing From Within philosophy as well as an avid birth photographer. She lives on a small homestead in Putney, VT with her husband Thomas. |
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Julie Bingham
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Anji Church, CPM, NHCM, LM
Birth and Postpartum Doula
Anji is a mother of 4 sons who were born in 4 and a half years. She was 23 years old when her 4th son was born. Her husband of 26 years and Anji home educated their sons. She also has a granddaughter. Besides being a birth and postpartum doula, Anji Church is an out of hospital midwife who can serve women in their homes or at the Monadnock Birth Center in Swanzey New Hampshire where she has usage privileges (for midwifery services, contact Anji directly at midwifeanji@yahoo.com or 603-318-8251). She completed 3 years of midwifery education before beginning a 2 year apprenticeship at ¡°The Birth Cottage of Milford¡±. During this apprenticeship she was able to achieve more than the required amount and level of skills experience required to be permitted to sit for the 8 hour written examination given by the NARM as a part of the national certification, and also was able to sit for the local skills examination with the New Hampshire Midwifery Council. She is licensed in the States of New Hampshire and Vermont to practice Midwifery by those states certifying agencies. She is certified nationally through NARM (North American Registry of Midwives), carries medical malpractice insurance through The New Hampshire Medical Malpractice Joint Underwriting Association, and is a member locally of the New Hampshire Midwives Association (NHMA) of which she is the secretary and nationally the Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA).
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Natalie Baker Merrill |