Category: Portraits

Meet Anastasia, A Midwife, Doula & Perinatal Support Practitioner
Meet Anastasia, a Greek midwife based in the Eindhoven region who supports families throughout pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period. Alongside her background in midwifery, Anastasia is a doula, childbirth educator, lactation consultant, hypnobirthing practitioner and baby massage instructor. Through her practice, Touching Life, she brings these different areas of expertise together to offer families…

Meet Emilie Martin-Chave, A Psychomotor Therapist, Sleep Consultant, and Parenting Guidance Coach
Meet Emilie Martin-Chave, a French Psychomotor Therapist, Sleep Consultant and Parenting Guidance Coach based in Amsterdam. With an approach that connects the body and mind, Emilie supports families through psychomotor development, gentle sleep guidance, parenting support and education. We spoke with Emilie about her journey into perinatal and parenting care, her international career, what psychomotor…

Meet Hanneke Rota, A Midwife & Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting Trainer
Meet Hanneke Rota, a midwife with 40 years of experience supporting women and families in the Netherlands and around the world. Based in Haarlem, Hanneke brings together decades of midwifery experience with a holistic approach to pregnancy, childbirth and early parenthood. Through individual coaching and Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP), she helps expectant parents reconnect…

Meet Flore Smit, Midwife and Childbirth Instructor
At Parentally, we exist to help new and future parents find extra care and support to navigate the twists and turns of parenthood. Our missions is not only to raise awareness around all the different types of support that exist for parents, but also to facilitate access to the professionals available to support them throughout…

Meet Pascale Lamacchia, Doula & Chinese Medicine specialist in Amsterdam
At Parentally, our mission is to help new and future parents find the extra care and support they need to navigate the twists and turns of parenthood. We do so by not only raising awareness around all the different types of support that exist for parents, but also by facilitating access to the professionals available…

Interview Sanne Kateman, founder of Kinderwensloket in Amsterdam
In this interview, we spoke to Sanne, a psychology teacher at the University of Amsterdam and the founder of Kinderwensloket. Sanne is a single mother by choice. She has used the experience of her journey towards single parenthood to set up Kinderwensloket and support other people considering having a baby on their own. What made…