Abigail Reagan

#149 Abigail Reagan - certified professional midwife, creator of the Doula Training Program at Natural Resources in San Francisco

Guest: Abigail Reagan, certified professional midwife, creator of the Doula Training Program at Natural Resources in San Francisco.Guest: Dodi Gauthier , coordinator of perinatal education and maternal transport and clinical staff nurse at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, board member for the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nursing.

Abigail Reagan ( LM, CPM, CE): Abigail Reagan began her path towards midwifery in 1994, inspired by the midwifery care she received during the birth of her second child at a freestanding birth center.She began by training as a doula and childbirth educator through Birth and Bonding International and received her certification in both in 1996.That same year Abigail attended Heart and Hands Beginning and Advanced Midwifery classes.In 1998, she began the first of three apprenticeships.After three and a half years as an apprentice in homebirth practices and at Sage Femme Midwifery Service, Abigail received her California Midwifery License in March 2003.

Since 1996, Abigail has taught childbirth preparation to hundreds of couples through Birth and Bonding International, Natural Resources, the Bay Area Homebirth Collective and privately.She continues her doula work and in 2001 began teaching the Doula Trainings at Natural Resources.To compliment her holistic approach to midwifery, Abigail has also studied acupressure for childbirth, homeopathy, pre and postnatal exercise, Birthing From Within and Hypnobirthing.She is dedicated to healthy and happy women, babies and families.Abigail lives in San Francisco with her husband and 2 teenage daughters.

Abigail Reagan is a certified doula and has worked in the San Francisco community since 1994.She received her childbirth educator certification in 1996 and has taught hundreds of couples since then at Birth & Bonding, Natural Resources, the Bay Area Homebirth Collective and privately.She has been an apprentice midwife for two and a half years and currently is an assistant at the Sage Femme Birth Center.Abigail lives in San Francisco with her husband, two teenage daughters, a dog, a cat and a hamster.

6:00 - 9:00pm Abigail Reagan
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Abigail Reagan is a California Licensed Midwife (LM) and a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) in homebirth practice in San Francisco. She has been attending births since 1995 when she completed doula training and certified as a doula and childbirth educator through Birth and Bonding International. Abigail has taught at Natural Resources since 1997. She has attended births in hospitals, birth centers and at home. It was the birth of her second daughter - attended by midwives - that inspired Abigail to the calling of working "with women" and she is honored by every child's birth she attends. She created the Doula Training Program at Natural Resources in 2001. Abigail lives in San Francisco with her husband and two teenaged daughters. www.rebirthmidwifery.com