Event Details
This session will prepare participants to advise expectant parents on normal newborn behaviors and appearances as well as those that are potential causes for concern. Students will learn techniques for offering parents an understanding of infant development that encourages them to read their infants’ cues, create loving attachments with their infants, feel confident in their decision-making abilities and gather resources if help is needed. The group will also discuss how to talk about controversial topics such as circumcision and vaccination in the spirit of informing rather than inflaming.
Virtual workshop hosted on Zoom. Link will be provided via email.
Registration is open up until 20 minutes before the event start time.
Instructor
Makeda Dawson-Davis, CD, CPD, CLC
Makeda is an Ancient Song Doula Services (ASDS) trained and Doula Trainings International trained and certified Birth and Post-Partum Doula as well as a Certified Lactation Counselor who has been supporting expectant and new families throughout communities in Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan since 2014. She fully believes every birthing person should have the access and education at their disposal to make the choices for their best birth experience and as your Doula, Makeda is here to support your choices for your birth whatever they may be.
Makeda has supported birthing persons at home births, birthing centers and hospitals and is also comfortable supporting with or without pain medications. She is fully committed to listening to your desires and supporting your birthing decisions and working with you to realize your parenting goals. With her BA in African American Studies from Wesleyan University and a MA in Social Studies Education from Brooklyn College, Makeda has always worked within the sphere of servicing families and connecting communities and she is happy to be able to enmesh these passions in her Doula work. Makeda has also been an educator for many years, most recently teaching Newborn Care to expecting families and other interested parties for the NYC Department of Health through the Healthy Start Brooklyn initiative.
Required Reading
Newborn Development
Sleep
Skin-to-Skin
Circumcision
Registration
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An Early Registration Discount is available up until 1 week prior to each workshop and will be applied at checkout.