DONA International "International Doula" - Managing Editor

CD(DONA), LCCE, CBC

Special Deliveries Doula Services - Medicine Hat, AB

Loree Siermachesky, CD(DONA), LCCE, CBC

• Lactation Consultant
• Doula
• Child Birth Educator

Loree is certified as a birth doula through DONA International, is a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator, and is a certified breastfeeding counsellor. She has continued her childbirth training and education over the years, receiving continuing education credits in childbirth preparation, labour massage and pressure points, breastfeeding support, infant development, postpartum care, and postpartum depression. She feels very fortunate to have been trained by and to have attended workshops with Penny Simkin, co-founder of DONA International, doula trainer and author and also Ina May Gaskin, the mother of authentic midwifery, author and birth activist. Loree has taken her passion, her patience and her knowledge and applied it to each of the over 800 births she has had the privledge and the honor to attend. She believes every woman and her partner deserve compassionate, non-judgmental care and strives to meet them wherever they are. Her philosophy is that every birth is sacred, regardless of external factors, and that all women have the right to respect, dignity and informed consent.