Johannesburg Doulas

14/9/2018

Laurette C. Brand

Laurette has been a practicing birth doula for the past 11 years.
Laurette's goal: To help parents achieve the birthing experience/loss experience they want , the environment and support structure that you deserve.
Training:

Breast feeding with author and lactation consultant Marie- Louis Steyn.
Advanced techniques, with midwife Jacky- Bloomraad de Boer=(Moxa, cupping, Reboza , pressure points, and homeopathic remedies in labor).
Training with Midwife Ruth Ehrhardt = Listening skills , sexual abuse, triggers points and helping baby’s breath.
Belly binding training with Chrissie smith.
I am a pregnancy massage therapist. Massaging for 13 years.
Doula training - Scared Space Doulas
Bereavement training - Mama Nurture

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Denise Janse van Rensburg - East Rand

Denise is a pregnancy, birth and postpartum doula and she is registered with WOMBS. Denise is also a qualified Mama Nurture and NCOT bereavement doula. She is also registered with the Department of Health as a Level 3 First aider.

Denise is also studying to qualify as a Nutritionist, Herbalist, Counseling in all areas, criminology, and mediator. These are all QCF qualifications.

Denise has a whatsapp support group running and each month all members decide on a location to meet that is easiest for all to travel to. She also does home visits.

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Vanessa Venter

I am photographer and a Mama Nurture trained bereavement doula. I have a special interest in birth and birth photography and hope to certify as a birth doula and childbirth educator in the upcoming year. It is my belief that every woman has the right to decide what type of birth is right for her.

Being an intuitive and empathetic person, I feel called to serve people, and bereavement doula services really resonate with me. My hope is that every woman who needs to walk this journey will have access to the necessary resources and support to help her process her grief.

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Lianne Barlon

Lianne Barlon is a wife, a daughter, a grandmother and mother to three
children and two angels. Lianne specialises in grief and bereavement
support. She has been a grief and bereavement counsellor for over 25
years, running Griefshare groups at New Life Church for the last 11
years. Lianne is now training to become a bereavement doula with a
passion to serve parents who experience infant or pregnancy loss.
Lianne is a co-owner of Sonja Smith Funerals in Fourways and provides
personalised and compassionate funeral services to families facing a
bereavement. Lianne also offers ongoing grief support via Soul Café, a
peaceful and comforting environment in the beautiful Broadacres
Garden Centre..

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Chantal Wells (Chanti) - Jhb North

Chanti is a Birth, Postpartum and Bereavement Doula (Certification pending). She has a nursing background.
Her heart is to assist birthing parents that have to face a heart breaking journey ahead that does not end in joy but to be able to help them make beautiful memories of a life celebrated inside of them.
She is a wife and a mother of 5 children and a grandmother.

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Janine Swanepoel

I am a bereavement doula (certification pending), and am planning on doing a birthing doula course as well in the near future.
As a loss mom to Keanu who was born still in 2016, my passion lies with women that experience loss. I am also involved with the Octopus for Preemie project, for babies that are in the NICU.
She is a wife, and also a mother to Noelani.

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Sara Edelman

Sara Edelman is a wife, mother, and grandmother, who has worked through various traumatic birth and post-natal experiences, both personally and with others. She therefore decided to train as a Birth Doula, her passion being post-natal support, for which she later trained with Welcome Baby Care in the U.S. as a Post-Natal Doula. She's also an IAIM (International Association of Infant Massage) Certified Instructor, and a COS-P (Circle of Security- Parenting) Facilitator. Sara is currently certifying as a Mama Nurture Bereavement Doula, which she believes is the most vital aspect of her doula support work.

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Jade Viljoen

I am a Doula in training with WOMBS and my passion is in the ability to serve others and to afford mothers and families the opportunity to have as sacred of a birth as possible in these painful circumstances in order to honour the soul of the baby, as well as to support the mother and family during this painful transition. I would like to give mothers the closest they can get, to the beautiful birth they had hoped for.
As a young, bereaved mother, I have experienced the lack of support that one can miss from medical staff and family members and hope to eliminate this experience as much as possible by stepping into a supportive and nurturing role.
I have completed 40 hours in government hospitals in Gauteng as a training doula and during this time, my passion for the Bereavement space has grown as I am aware of the dire need of loving hands and understanding hearts. I would like to hold space for women in all situations and circumstances, where they feel that I will be able to support them and lighten the load of their journey."
I am a Birth Doula in training with WOMBS and my passion is in the ability to serve others and to afford mothers and families the opportunity to have as sacred of a birth as possible in these painful circumstances in order to honour the soul of the baby, as well as to support the mother and family during this painful transition.
As a young, bereaved mother, I have experienced the lack of support that one can miss from medical staff and family members and hope to eliminate this experience as much as possible by stepping into my role as a bereavement doula.
I am aware of the dire need of loving hands and understanding hearts. I would like to hold space for women in all situations and circumstances, where I will be able to support them and lighten the load of their journey.

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