Jennifer is a Canadian who relocated to Amsterdam 12 years ago, 20 weeks pregnant with her first child. Jennifer is one of the first doulas to begin working professionally in the Netherlands, training with Childbirth International and with Debra Pascali-Bonaro in 2006. She has a thriving doula practice in Amsterdam (www.birthsupport.nl). Working as a doula the last six years she has bore witness to births in many settings and experienced the changing tides of birth in the Netherlands.

Jennifer’s background as a theatre producer has also served her well in the birth community inviting many international birth experts to teach workshops in Amsterdam. In 2012 she created a new doula training program with midwife/acupuncturist/doula Jacky Bloemraad-de Boer: JJ doula training www.birthsupport.nl/jjdoulatraining.