about
Hello! My name is Jasmine and my pronouns are she/her. For the past ten years, I have been serving children and families in the Victoria area in a variety of capacities. As a full-spectrum doula, I help lay the foundation for a supported pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experience with an emphasis on queer family building and creating networks of community care. I also offer services outside the typical doula model because I believe accompaniment and care are needed in so many of life’s transitional moments.
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As your doula, I
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Bring a reassuring, non-anxious presence that puts you at ease
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Set the tone for your family to grow from a foundation of nourishment, support, and connection
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Equip you with skills to care for yourself and your family
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Work with you to build your own continued network of support
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See you in your wholeness while bringing my own authenticity to our time together
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Build trust through consent, non-judgemental listening, and emotional connection
Training:
Holistic Doula Certificate, Pacific Rim College (April 2021) ​​
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Childbirth Educator Certificate, Douglas College (in progress)
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Integrative Lactation & Feeding Specialist, Manhattan Birth (in progress)
Emergency Childcare First Aid and CPR-B (May 2021)
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To me, full-spectrum means:
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Support for all reproductive choices, birth processes, and infant feeding approaches
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Support for all reproductive experiences, including loss, abortion, adoption, and surrogacy
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Including and uplifting queer, non-binary, and trans people and working to make family-building more accessible and safe for us
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Taking an intersectional approach to understanding how race, gender, sexuality, dis/ability, economic status, and other factors influence our experiences
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Trauma-informed care
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Constantly learning from people who have different experiences from me and working to create structural changes for pregnant people, birthing people, and families
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Making doula care more accessible through sliding-scale payment and creative community funding
About lineage:
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Knowing that the way your birth and postpartum unfolds is a story that stays with you, lineage is an invitation to receive deep, tender care. It comes from a belief that experiencing support, nourishment, and accompaniment through transition moments builds a foundation for loving families and communities.
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Lineage is partly about who we are and who we come from. It is our ancestry and traditions, and also about the ways we find each other and become each others’ family. Lineage is about knowing that there are endless ways to create family, community, and connection.
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Lineage is about reverence for the diverse knowledge traditions that inform birth, postpartum, and child raising. It may resonate with connections to your family history or traditions. It may mean the future you are creating for your family. It is trauma-informed, knowing that often our lineage holds stories of pain and sadness. It honours the wisdom of children and elders.
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Lineage is about scaffolding support around families, knowing that too many parents are trying to make it through isolation. It is a tether to a long line of caregivers, reaching into the past and the future.
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