Jennifer Cantrell, SBD

Birth & Bereavement Doula® serving Muskegon, Michigan

SBD Doulas® are accessible to you through our open group or through our CONNECT app.

Wife to an army veteran and mommy to 4 kids who I hold in my arms and 15 kids I hold in my heart. Originally from Maryland. My passion in life is children. Have been a pre K teacher for many years but since my high risk pregnancy with my most recent rainbow, I am now a stay at home mommy. I lost my first child at 19.6weeks in 2001, Jennyfur Angel. Shortly after she grew her wings, I became pregnant with my oldest child. Throughout the following years, I became pregnant many times, giving birth to my two daughters and suffering multiple miscarriages. In 2009 I met my now husband. In 2010 we suffered a miscarriage at 8 weeks. followed by two ectopic pregnancies in 2011 and 2012. In Jan 2013 we found out we were yet again, pregnant. After a very strenuous, high risk pregnancy, our rainbow was born Sep 7, 2013 at 38 weeks. Since than I decided to have a tubal ligation, making my 4 living children, the only children I will hold in my arms. During my pregnancy, I found support through a fellow SBD Doula, and a local Doula, Thats when I knew… this was the path I was meant to lead! God gave me my trails and tribulations to mold me into a SBD Doula so that I can provide support and compainonship to those who need it the most.

Along with providing local support, I am always open to providing support online, via email to anyone going through perinatal loss or a rainbow pregnancy.

Discover what the SBD credentialed doula has achieved.

5/5 - (1 vote)

0 0 votes

Article Rating

BIRTH & BEREAVEMENT QUOTES

« ‹ 14 of 16 › »

She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

I am strong.

— January, founder of Birth Without Fear

When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.

— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

« ‹ 14 of 16 › »

BECOME A DOULA!

Enroll now in the Birth & Bereavement Doula® program!

We onboard enrolled students into the program by email invitation.

After tuition, you can email heidi.faith@stillbirthday.com directly to expedite this step. Alternatively, if you prefer fb communications, you can join us in Admissions.