
Deidre Abrons is a Certified Massage
Therapist and Birth Doula with a specialty in Prenatal and
Postpartum Massage. She is a former second grade teacher and
has five years of experience working with pregnant women.
Deidre also sits on the Board of Directors as the Volunteer
Coordinator for the Bay
Area Birth Association.
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Her education includes a B.A. in English Literature,
a CLAD California Teaching Credential, an AFFA Group Fitness
Instructor Certification, a DONA birth doula certification
and a Massage Therapy Certification with 775 hours of instruction
in Massage Therapy at The Swedish
Institute in New York City, Mother
Massage with Elaine Stillerman and the McKinnon
Institute in Oakland.
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Currently, she is working toward her Bachelor of Science in
Midwifery
and apprenticing as a midwife at Sagefemme Midwifery, the birth
center in San Francisco. She cares for her 3-year-old daughter,
and
works as a private doula and as a volunteer doula at Highland
Hospital. She is also a certified fitness instructor and teaches
an
exercise class for new moms at The Claremont Resort & Spa. |