Our Team
Adrienne Wetherell, CD(DONA)
Experience Highlights: Birth & Postpartum Doula /Childbirth & Lactation Education/Yoga/High risk/Trauma Informed/Multiples Births/VBAC
Adrienne is a birth & postpartum doula, yoga teacher, and proud mama. She attended her very first birth in 2012 and was immediately hooked! Since then, she has had the privilege of attending over 200 births and supporting close to 300 families postpartum. Adrienne offers caring, compassionate, non-judgmental support to expectant parents and is honored to work with families during such a life-changing time. As an experienced doula, she supports clients who are low or high-risk, who have had fertility challenges, previous traumatic births or pregnancy loss, anxiety, depression and trauma.
A certified yoga teacher since 2005, Adrienne is passionate about making the practice of yoga a safe, nourishing and fun experience for her participants. She has taught in corporate, hospital and yoga studio locations throughout Toronto and has additional training in mindfulness, prenatal/postnatal yoga and trauma sensitive yoga.
Adrienne gave birth to her breech baby in September 2013 and has since been journeying through the joys and challenges of motherhood.
Training & Education
Certified Birth Doula with DONA International
Birth & Postpartum doula training with DONA International
Birth doula training and yoga for birth with Heart of Birth, 2012 (Crescence Krueger)
Registered Association of Ontario Doulas member (AOD)
Breastfeeding for birth professionals
Acupressure for birth professionals
Spinning Babies Workshop with Tammy Ryan
First Aid/CPR, Red Cross
Certified pre and postnatal Yoga teacher training (Esther Myers, The Yoga Sanctuary)
Certified Yoga teacher training, 2005 (The Yoga Sanctuary)
Mindful Motherhood facilitator training (Cassandra Vieten, PhD)
Five Mindfulness Trainings Certificate, Thich Nhat Hanh
Trauma Sensitive Yoga certificate program (The Trauma Center at JRI/Kripalu Center)
Health Canada approved Infection Prevention & Control certification
Completion of 22.5hr Lamaze Childbirth Educator Seminar (Canadian Institute of Childbirth Educators/Stefanie Antunes & Jennifer Rogers)
How to Help Families get Evidence Based Care (Evidence Based Birth)
Ruth Ruttan
Experience highlights: Birth & Postpartum Doula/Infant Sleep Educator/Childbirth & Lactaton Education/Pilates
Ruth is a creative, passionate, bold, and kinesthetic human being who loves "forest bathing" (being in nature!), navigating the ups and downs of parenting three children with her partner and sipping frothy cappuccinos. She is a Toronto based Birth and Postpartum Doula, Childbirth Educator, Infant Sleep and Breast/ Chestfeeding Educator with experience working with OBs and midwives in all kinds of birth settings – hospital, birth center and at home. Ruth is also a Certified Pilates Instructor (STOTT), specializing in Prenatal and Postpartum Pilates and exercise. She has been teaching people to move and become more connected to their bodies for over 25 years.
Ruth’s personal movement practice and body-awareness were a tremendous asset when she gave birth to each of her three children, as was the incredible support team that encouraged her through each pregnancy to parenthood experience. She draws from this comprehensive support when working with her clients.
Ruth knows how deeply the birth experience impacts families, and wants each family she works with to have a story that they love to tell.
Training & Education
Certified Maternal Support Practitioner (Birth & Postpartum Doula), Bebo Mia
Infant Sleep Educator, Bebo Mia & Brandie Hadfield
Breast/Chestfeeding Educator, Bebo Mia, Ashely Pickett IBCLC
& Laura Kent-Davidson IBCLC
Childbirth Educator, Bebo Mia
Certified Rebozo Doula, Gena Kirby Method
Master Instructor Trainer Certification, Balanced Body Pilates
Pilates Full Certification, STOTT Pilates
Infant and Family CPR trained
Carissa Marks
Experience highlights: Birth & Postpartum doula/Childbirth Education/Doula Trainer/Night Doula
Carissa has been a passionate Birth and Postpartum Doula 2016, leaving the corporate world behind and has never looked back! Carissa has attended over 150 births and now primarily focuses on postpartum support and child birth education. She is also a Craniosacral Therapist and has worked as a Doula Trainer for Doula Canada.
Carissa’s main focus is to support you and your family throughout the fourth trimester, to teach and assist you with all that becoming new parents entails.
She is an artist, dog lover and proud mother to two grown daughters.
Training & Education:
Birth, Postpartum Doula and Childbirth Educator - Certified via Doula Canada
CPR and First Aid Trained
Health and Safety Certified
Rebozo Comfort Measures with Gina Kirby Method
Cardiac Technologist Certified
Traceen Hutchinson
Experience highlights: Certified Registered Nurse/Postpartum Doula/Night Doula/Lactation Support
Traceen Hutchinson is a mother of 4 beautiful children ages 10 through 21 and married to her King of 21yrs.
After graduating from Durham College (2004), she got a job right away at the top Hospital for Maternity. She worked at Mount Sinai Hospital for 15 years as a postpartum nurse and lactation consultant. This was her foundation, the senior nurses taught her everything she knows.
In 2018, Traceen took a postpartum position at Lakeridge Hospital in Oshawa but decided to take a leave of absence and work in Long Term Care as a frontline worker during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Her passion has always been in Maternity care being hands-on with her patients as they transition from pregnancy to motherhood.
As a postpartum doula I aim to bridge the gaps between the hospital and starting a new life at home with baby, through lactation support, family bonding and postpartum care for the birthing person.
Training & Education:
Currently enrolled in Breastfeeding Doulas course
Certified Registered Nurse, College of Nurses of Ontario, Toronto, ON, 2004-Present
Postpartum Doula Training, Yoga Mamas, Toronto, ON, 2021
Heart and Stroke Foundation for Basic Cardiac Life Support Certification, Valid through 2024
Nursing Diploma, Durham College, Oshawa, ON, 2004
Madeleine Alderson
Experience highlights: Birth Doula/Hypnobirthing Educator/Childbirth Educator/Surrogacy Births/VBAC births
You’ll feel as though you have an old friend or auntie at your birth with Madeleine’s caring hands-on approach. Clients find that they feel a sense of ease as she guides them through labour with breathing techniques, meditation and visualizations. Madeleine is yoga alliance certified, hypnobirthing trained and has all of the traditional doula trainings. This expertise will help your birth to be less intense, and full of relaxation. Advocacy, inclusivity, and sensitivity is how she focuses her lens so that you and your family will feel comforted as though you're enveloped in a warm hug. Families appreciate Madeleine’s ability to recognize your needs, and that of your support, without the need to say anything. You will feel that you're in great hands. She has had the pleasure of supporting families for years and looks forward to supporting yours. For every 2 full paying clients, Madeleine seeks out members of the BIPOC, global majority, and queer community to support.
Training & education
Labour and birth trained with DONA international
Hypnobirthing educator trained
TENS machine for labour operator trained
CPR & First Aid Trained
Alumni of the Markham-Stouville Doula apprentice program
Ciera Graham Jackson, CLD
Experience highlights: Birth & Postpartum Doula/Night Doula, Specializing in Multiples/Lactation Support/Early Childhood Educator
Ciera started on her professional path of birth support in 2013, when she was encouraged to enter the Doula world by her Aunties (who are also Doulas), shortly after beginning her degree in Child Development. Since she was a child she has always helped friends and families with their newborns and young ones, it came naturally to her. As a postpartum doula, Ciera has supported many clients across the GTA and in New York.
Today, she specializes in prenatal support, overnight newborn care, twins support, lactation and milk production, and all things mama care. Being a Doula is the second most rewarding thing to being the mother to a wonderful 4 year old girl.
In this modern era, Ciera believes the need for informative and compassionate support throughout pregnancy, birth and the "fourth trimester" is increasingly evident. As a doula, her main goal is to help empower her clients to advocate for themselves and the birth they prefer. Her secondary goal is to help them attain their goals by providing them with the support, guidance and information they need while establishing healthy habits.
Training & Education:
Postpartum Doula Training (CAPPA)
Certified Birth Doula (Childbirth International)
Adult/Child/Infant CPR
Heather Fleming
Experience highlights: Night doula, Specializing in Multiples/Postpartum doula/Birth doula/Childbirth education/Hypnobirthing/Lactation Support
Heather has been a certified (bebo mia) maternal health care specialist, child birth educator and birth and post partum doula since 2015.
Heather specializes in postpartum overnight care and is a twin care specialist.
When Heather is not helping families, you can find her either at the hockey rink with her 3 kids or camping up north. She enjoys swimming and spending time with her family and 2 dogs.
Training & Education
Hypnobirthing (Karen McWilliam)
Sleep Education
Placenta Encapsulation with Ippa.
Stillbirth
Spinning babies
Acupressure
Breastfeeding
Rebozo
Currently certifying in car seat safety.
Julie Saunders
Experience Highlights: Birth & Postpartum Doula/Prenatal Educator/Night Doula
Julie has been a birth and postpartum doula for 8 years. Her gift is a natural intuitive ability to connect with people quickly and create intimate bonds. This is pivotal to the foundation of trust that leads to the ability to support positive birth experiences for both the labouring mother as well as her partner. She is also a prenatal educator, and enjoys preparing couples for birth and parenthood. For her, hearing from parents-to-be that they feel more prepared and ready is the greatest reward!
Julie knows the importance of choosing a doula who builds confidence and safety, someone you can be yourself around who you can trust. A doula who will support you in whatever way YOU want and need.
When not at a birth or lending a hand with newborn babes, Julie is adventuring through life with her partner Scott, and they are collectively raising 5 little humans.
She loves to read, travel, play monopoly, listen to live music and read anything birth related.
Training & Education
Birth doula training with DONA International