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ADVANCED  BIRTH  SUPPORT  WORKSHOP

ABOUT  THE  INSTRUCTOR

Carrie Kenner, BA, CBM, CD(DONA), CDT(DONA), LCCE, has been helping people have babies for 30 years.   She began supporting her friends and sister in birth in 1980 and teaching childbirth education in 1982.  In 2001, after many years working in healthcare administration and returning to her passion with birth, Carrie started her own business as a childbirth educator and birth doula.  Since then, she has attended over 300 births, worked with over 1,000 families as an educator, birth doula, pre-conception counselor, and postpartum support provider, and trained and mentored over 700 doulas. 
 

Carrie is a DONA-approved Birth Doula Trainer, a certified Birthing From Within mentor, and a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator.  She is Senior Faculty at Simkin Center (formerly Seattle Midwifery School), trains doulas throughout the Western region, and speaks at national conferences.   Carrie owns and operates Big Belly Services in Seattle, WA, providing childbirth, lactation, and parenting education, and doula services for big people who are expecting little people.  Carrie has three sons and six grandchildren, is passionate about Nature and the wild, and practices urban farming at her home in south Seattle.

 

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