Grace is a professionally Certified Labour Doula, a trained Postpartum Doula and Childbirth Educator and an Association of Placenta Preparation Arts (APPA) Certified Placenta Specialist. She is a member in good standing of CAPPA Canada, APPA and the Ontario Professional Doula Association. Grace has her Lactation Management Certification through the world-renowned INFACT Canada, based on the WHO / UNICEF Guidelines….
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Kirrah Holborn holds a Bachelor Degree in Clinical Science but after witnessing her first homebirth in 2007, she found her true passion lay in birth work. She is now an experienced doula, pregnancy masseuse, childbirth educator and placenta encapsulation specialist. Being a self confessed ‘placenta nerd’ she was thrilled at the opportunity to further her education with the Association of…
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Kate Jaggard Tyo first encountered placenta encapsulation while researching voraciously during her parallel doula studies and first pregnancy. Living abroad in Sweden, she couldn’t find anyone who knew a thing about placenta encapsulation so she figured she’d do it herself after her son was born in 2009. Six months later, after being coached by a kind and knowledgeable stateside encapsulation…
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Cliodhna Griffin, HBCE, APPAC,  began her career in childbirth education and placenta arts services after the birth of her second child. After having 2 very different births and postpartum recoveries she felt an incredible desire to help other new mothers achieve a birth and postpartum that left them feeling empowered and strong. Once successfully completing training in childbirth education she…
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  In 2015 Natalie drove 11,206 kilometres to hospital and back, wore 618 pairs of gloves, ran her dehydrator for 1,236 hours, filled 14,790 capsules, made up 14,843 litres of bleach solution and completed her training and certification with APPA, all for the love of placentas. It began in 2009, when she had her first child and she tried to consume the little…
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