Media

The Nesting Place doulas are available for media interviews and other speaking engagements.

Their speaking topics include:

• Doulas: What are they, how do you find one and how do they make a difference?
• Birthing From Within: An alternative prenatal class that taps into your creative side
• Birthing Biases: Balancing personal bias with authentic support
• Comfort Positions and Tools for Birth
• Transforming a C-Section into a Spiritual Birth
• Baby Care
• Emotional preparation for birth and postpartum
• The Labyrinth of Labour: A Metaphor for the Journey through labour and postpartum
• Teen Pregnancy: Special considerations for teenage parents
• Pain vs Suffering: Does one always always have to come with the other?
• Coping with Chronic Disease During Pregnancy

Amanda's Bio:

www.nsairafiphotography.com Amanda Spakowski is the founder of The Nesting Place: Prenatal Classes & Doula Care. She is a birth doula and Toronto's only Birthing From Within educator. Her background in human biology, peer counseling, crisis intervention and assisting in home daycares has allowed her to bring an experienced and unique perspective to her classes and care.

Amanda's passion for supporting each person's unique transition to parenthood is evident as she brings a thoughtful and compassionate facilitating style to all of her classes. Additionally, her commitment to inclusive space creates a safe and nurturing environment for parents to learn more about themselves as they prepare for childbirth.

In addition to prenatal classes, Amanda also offers birth art workshops for parents and workshops for birth professionals who want to deepen their relationship with clients. Topics of these workshops include Birthing Biases, Birth Trauma Processing and Story Listening: The Art of Listening to Birth Stories.

Her blog, TheNestingPlace.blog.com regularly publishes articles and information about pregnancy, birth and parenting topics that consider the range of experiences and emotions that arise during the transition to parenthood.

To reach Amanda Spakowski, call 416-722-3814 or visit the contact page.

Melissa's Bio:

Melissa Herod uses her background in kinesiology, health sciences and sexual health education to offer parents a grounded, practical awareness of the physical challenges and changes that occur during their childbearing years. Her volunteer experience with high risk mothers at Mt. Sinai and teenage parents has given her a deep understanding of the sensitivities that accompany the personal transition of childbirth and she brings this awareness to her work as a Birthing From Within educator and doula for Downtown, North and East Toronto parents.

To reach Melissa, call 647-588-3409 or email Melissa@thenestingplace.ca

 

 

 

 

Deanna's Bio:

Deanna Blanshard can wholeheartedly say she has seen it all! Her years as a labour and delivery nurse and a childbirth educator have given her a profound confidence in women’s ability to successfully give birth when they are in a supported, caring and nurturing environment.  As a result, couples experience the freedom to explore the process of birth in a way that is unique to them.

Deanna’s experience enables her to bring awareness to the partner’s needs.  She sensitively supports and coaches partners recognizing when to step in and when to allow you space to enjoy the miraculous process of becoming a parent. Deanna believes that birth is an immensely personal and sacred time for a couple and being present at the birth of your baby would be considered a great privilege for her.

In addition to her birth doula services, Deanna is an experienced and knowlegable Home
Wellness Consultant. She will assist you in creating an optimal environment where your
family can flourish. For further information please visit her website at
www.nikken.com/deannablanshard.

To contact Deanna directly please call her at 416-882-1885 or email Deanna@thenestingplace.ca