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Brooke Myung For the last 5 years I have been a doula and offer a variety of pregnancy and birth related services. I believe strongly that every family has the right to make informed decisions, that every mother deserves a birth team that respects her wishes, and that the newborn state is a profoundly important one, in which bother the mother and baby should be respected and protected. |
I am proud to have been a board member since the founding of this group. There have been many changes and many happy days, and I am proud to have been part of many of them. We strongly feel that families deserve the information they need to make the best decisions for their family, support for those choices from their birth team and Mother/Baby friendly care. As president, one of my goals is to increase our educational offerings to the public. Another is increasing our membership of active, willing volunteers to teach in the community. We are working on new ways of getting BACC, and our mission, out there in our area.
To contact Brooke, please email President (at) childbirthchoices.org. (no spaces)
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Julie Gilbert
I am a mother of seven children and three grandchildren. I have been attending births for twelve years and became a certified doula with DONA in 2002. I have been a certified Infant Massage Instructor with IAIM since July 2004.
I feel it an honor to be of service to birthing families.
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Roxi Augustine, RN Roxi Augustine is an RN with 30 years experience in a wide variety of maternity and other clinical settings. She has traveled extensively and brings a global perspective to her educational classes. She currently works as a childbirth and breastfeeding educator, Creative Memory Consultant, and as a maternity staff nurse. In her free time she enjoys her family, friends, album making, reading, gardening, eBay-ing and staying current on healthcare, women's and birth. |
She considers herself an advocate for women's & family’s choices in childbirth and supports the midwifery model of care. Prior to locating in the Central Valley, she worked in the East Bay for 18 years in a family centered maternity center. She is a certified childbirth educator and a lactation educator. After graduation from Iowa Methodist School of Nursing she worked in the county hospital and obtained OGNP credentials for family planning clinic. As a traveling nurse she spent time in Hawaii, Kentucky, Montana, Missouri, Texas, and California. She was fortunate to spend time in Southeast Asia, England and Mexico as well. Birth has been an important part of her personal and professional life since she first witnessed birth on the farm as a small child.