Vanessa Plantenberg
612.968.8774
e-mail: vanessadoula@gmail.com
location: Saint Louis Park, MN
Serving Area: Twin Cities Area

Certifications and qualifications: Birth Doula Certification in progress with DONA

I believe that I have the ability to help other women find their inner stregnth. I think it is essential in birth. I also believe that we, as women need to take active roles in birth, not just our own, but every woman's birth. We need to reassert the value that woman have in giving birth, and we need to reestablish respect for birth as nature chose life to be born from women. I believe that I need to help women give birth, not only to help them, but for me to learn with each birth that women are strong, beautiful, couragous, and ultimately the link to life. I think that beleiving in this idea can help each woman, no matter what her self image see that she is important. I can help a pregnant woman to see that she is part of something bigger than herself when she gives birth, and by being part of it, she gains stregnth from it. I think that every woman deserves to feel empowered - and what better way to help women than to be a doula.

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