 Mendy Thijjsen is a Birthing From WithinŽ Childbirth Mentor. She is an experienced birth and postpartum doula, and Whole Birth Yoga instructor, serving Bay Area families since 2002. She is a wife, and mother to a beautiful daughter, born in June 2005 and a son born December 2008, both at home. Her work stems from many teachings of mindfulness meditation, knowing our archetypes and how they effect our lives, storytelling for metaphorical learning, and building a creative, solution-focused mindset for life, especially how it relates to labor, birth and parenting. She is devoted to providing resources and evidence based information to expecting and new parents to help promote mother-friendly/ baby-friendly care in our current birth culture. |
