ADVANCED  BIRTH  DOULA  WORKSHOP

ABOUT  THE  INSTRUCTORS

Carrie Kenner, BA, CBE, CD(DONA), CDT(DONA), has been helping people have babies for over 25 years.  As an 18-year-old first-time mother in 1979, she desired a homebirth and searched for over three months to find midwives to attend her at home.  Her search for midwifery care fueled her passion for supporting women in their right to have the births they desire, to access for information and support for normal birth, and in rediscovering the power of women through birth.  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 250 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.  She is a DONA-approved Birth Doula Trainer and a certified Birthing From Within mentor.  She is Senior Faculty at Simkin Center (formerly Seattle Midwifery School), Adjunct Faculty at Bastyr University in the Midwifery Department, 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 a Master Gardener intern, and practices mini-urban farming at her home in Seattle.

Sharon Muza, BS, Biology, CD(DONA, PALS), LCCE is a birth doula, doula trainer and Lamaze certified birth and family educator.   Sharon owns New Moon Birth, and teaches independent Lamaze childbirth classes in Seattle, including VBAC YOUR Way and Labor YOUR Way.  She is President of REACHE, an organization that produces a highly popular annual birth conference, and has presented twice at the Lamaze International Conference.  Sharon is also a co-leader of the Seattle Chapter of the International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN) and serves on the board of PALS Doulas.  She has been a doula trainer at Seattle Midwifery School/Bastyr University since 2006 and also teaches advanced doula trainings on a variety of topics.  She lives in Seattle with her two daughters.  Her contact info is sharon@newmoonbirth.com.