Jenn Fontaine
LCCE, FACE, CD(DONA), BDT(DONA), CHBE, Lamaze Program Director
Jenn Fontaine, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), PCD(DONA) CLC, WSGB Instructor, has been supporting the families of Winnipeg as a birth doula and childbirth educator since 2002. During that time, Jenn has attended several hundred births and taught more than a thousand new families. Jenn is the co-owner and doula trainer at Birth Roots Doula Collective Inc.
In 2016, Jenn received the honor of being inducted as a Fellow of the Academy of Certified Childbirth Educators. This was a fitting recognition of Jenn’s significant contribution to childbirth education and her promotion of safe and healthy birth through evidenced-based practice.
Jenn loves introducing people to becoming a doula and/or childbirth educator, and successfully launched the I.T.S. Birth accredited Lamaze Training Program in 2016. Jenn is an in-demand workshop facilitator, both online and in-person, and has traveled all over the world to train new doulas and childbirth educators, offering her own personal brand of support as they successfully launch their own careers.
Jenn currently lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada with her husband, Marc, her four amazing kids and two drooling bulldogs: Scarlett and George. She is undergoing treatment for her coffee addiction but there are doubts as to its success. You can reach Jenn at jenn@itsbirth.ca or 204-297-6094