Jenn Head, DEM, CD(DONA) & (PALS)
jenn@blessthismama.com

My name is Jenn Head and I believe that birth works. I have completed midwifery school, been an intern at a high volume birth center, and have attended over 100 births in my career as a birth professsional.

I am working toward my national certification and state licensure and am certified as a doula through the internationally recognized Doulas of North America (DONA) and the Pacific Association for Labor Support (PALS). I am a trained and practicing Lactation Specialist and certified Reiki Practitioner.

I am a wife and a mother of three beautiful girls. I became a doula, lactation specialist and now, a midwife, because I recognize the need for an objective point of view and physical and emotional help that only an experienced woman can provide during labor, birth and breastfeeding. I look forward to working with you and your family. I live in Ashland, Oregon and serve mothers in the Rogue Valley. Please call or email me at: jenn@BlessThisMama.com to check for my availability.

I look forward to going on this journey with you and your growing family!

My Training:

Casa de Nacimiento - high volume birth center
El Paso, TX
August - September 2007

International School of Traditional Midwifery
Ashland, OR
Completed in June of 2007
top of my class with a greater than 4.0 average

DONA International Annual Conferene
Denver, CO
June 2006
• Cradling and Caring for Latinas in pregnancy and birth
• Infant-led Latch for Breastfeeding
• Client Living with Partner Violence
• Needs after an Unexpected Outcome
• Early Childhood Influences on a Woman's Childbearing
• Baby-Led Latching: How Babies are Hard-Wired to Breastfeed
• Intimate Partner Violence

Expanding the Toolbox
Workshop series aimed to assist perinatal professionals in developing the knowledge and skills
Seattle, WA
2006
• Birth in A Cultural Context
• Perinatal Mood Disorders
• Drug-impacted Pregnancies
• Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Pregnancy, Labor and Postpartum: It’s Effects and Management

Childbirth Education Association of Tacoma/Tacoma Labor Companions
Spinning Babies Workshop - www.spinningbabies.com
Optimal foetal positioning workshop
" 'Cephalopelvic disproportion' will no longer be a label to cover confusion."
Tacoma, Washington
2003
Gail Tully, CPM, BS, CD (DONA)
• Techniques with the rebozo, a long Mexican scarf.
• Cause and correction for the most common cause for "failure to progress."
• Learned how to help more women give birth on time without Pitocin.
• Belly Mapping

Salt Lake Regional Medical Center Lactation Educator Training
Salt Lake City, UT
2002
• Overcoming maternal challenges in breastfeeding
• Breastfeeding the baby with special needs
• Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative

Douglas College
New Westminister, BC Canada
2002
Phyllis Klaus, Dr. Marshall Klaus, Dr. Michael Klein
• The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Pregnancy, Labour and Postpartum: It’s Effects and Management
• Helping Women after a Traumatic or Negative Birth Experience.

Seattle Midwifery School
Seattle, WA
2002
Dana Blue, Margaret Bergmann-Ness, Sandy Szalay
• DONA approved Birth Doula Training Workshop
• Childbirth Education for Doulas