Offered by: Jesse Remer, DONA International Birth & Postpartum Doula Trainer, Mother Tree Birth
3-Day Training
Thursday - Saturday 8:30 AM - 6:30 PM
Mother Tree Postpartum Doula Training prepares the doula to support families after birth so they can healthily integrate a newborn into the family.
The Postpartum Doula training will support the doula in developing a Postpartum Plan that fosters a client’s personal parenting style as the expert of their own baby and nourishes the parents through this special transition time.
This training is designed so the doula can be qualified for DONA International Certification Step 1
Learning Objectives for Postpartum Doula Training:
Physical and psychological needs of the postpartum period
Development of the newborn.
Feeding Skills: breastfeeding/chest feeding skills, supplementation tools, support,
Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorder
Partner support
Fostering bonding
Multiples
Grief and loss
Jesse Remer (she/her)
CD/BDT(DONA), PCD/PDT(DONA) LCCE, FACCE; Mother Tree Founder (DONA) Certified Birth Doula; DONA International Birth & Postpartum Doula Trainer; Founding Member, Oregon Doula Association (Education Chair); Executive Director, PDX Doulas; Principal, Gateway Doula Group; Lamaze Childbirth Educator, Mother Tree International Mentor
For the past three decades she has supported healthy birth outcomes as a Lamaze Childbirth Educator, DONA International Birth and Postpartum Doula Trainer and Founder of Mother Tree International. She has supported thousands of families and doulas in the childbearing year.
As a leader in the field, she was the lead doula on the clinical design team for Providence Health Systems Pregnancy Care Package and became the first staff doula of their integrated healthcare model. She is a founding board member of the Oregon Doula Association (ODA) since 2013, six years as Policy and Advocacy Chair and is the current Education Chair.
She has two years representing ODA as liaison to the State of Oregon Traditional Healthcare Workers Systems Integration subcommittee at the Oregon Health Authority working on creating sustainable systems of doula support within the system. She has worked for multiple health systems to improve health equity. She is the founding Facebook Power Admin of Doula Talk, a thriving social media group of over 17k members. Jesse is also the Executive Director for the sister doula groups: Gateway Doula Group affiliated Women’s Health Associates and PDX Doulas affiliated with Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU).
Over the past 15 years she has trained birth professionals internationally from Iceland, Germany, Mexico and Spain and across the United States. She became passionate about the models developing in Trauma Informed Care (trained with TIC Oregon Trainer program) and how they apply directly towards health care equity across diverse populations, specifically people of color.
