Janet Grabe

Janet Grabe, RN, BSN, ICCE, CD(DONA), DONA-Approved Birth Doula Trainer

Janet has been an RN since 1984, having been the top academic graduate of
her Bachelor's of Nursing with a 4.0 GPA.  She also holds several
certifications, including her most treasured ones as a Prepared Childbirth
Instructor (through ICEA) and also as a Birth Doula and DONA-Approved Birth
Doula Trainer.  Her unique sense of humor and gift for teaching (both from
her dad) helps her students learn while they thought they were just having
fun!  She has been happily married to Jim since 1984 (they started dating in
1980).  She is originally from Hawaii.  There, she followed in her mother's
footsteps as an RN in L&D at Kapiolani Medical Center, where they have the
9th most births in the US at 7,000 per year.  She was honored by being
nominated twice for Maternal-Child Nurse of the Year.  She was a Level III
RN and also became the Medical Center's Bereavement Coordinator.  As such,
it was her privilege to conduct 3-day workshops of Bereavement Counselors
and also train all new L&D nurses.  She coordinated a program of about 30
volunteer counselors helping families suffering miscarriage, ectopic
pregnancy, stillbirth, and newborn death.  In addition, it has been her
distinct honor and privilege to teach Prepared Childbirth classes for about
20 years and she has dearly loved attending many births as a Doula.