Rina Ríos, AdvCD/BDT(DONA), CLC, LCCE, FACCE

Rina is a mother of two in New York City, where she has lived her whole life. She is truly passionate about labor and birth and is thrilled to share this passion along with her knowledge and experience with pregnant families as well as childbirth professionals. She strives to help families learn about birth and about their ability to advocate for themselves before, during and after labor. She also relishes opportunities to talk about birth outside of these circles, where eyes might be opened to the need for change.

Rina is an advanced certified doula through DONA International and has received additional doula training through ALACE and toLabor and is trained as a HypnoBirthing doula. She is a DONA-Approved Doula Trainer and a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator. Rina has been approved by Lamaze to train childbirth educators and works with Passion for Birth, a Lamaze Accredited Childbirth Educator Training Program. She is also a Certified Lactation Counselor with the Healthy Children Project.

Rina was inducted as a Fellow of the Academy of Certified Childbirth Educators in 2015. She is a co-founder of the NYC Doula Collective where she served as Director and Advisor to the Board. She is also the founder and coordinator of several volunteer doula programs for under-resourced populations. She also completed a term on the DONA International Board of Directors in 2020, serving as the Intercultural Director.

Always eager to learn, Rina has studied with Pam England, Michel Odent, Gail Tully, Penny Simkin, Susun Weed, Ina, May Gaskin, and many others, and she is a Shinpiden Facilitator. She is bilingual, speaking Spanish and English.

Rina is a nonfiction writer and the narrator of two audiobooks, The Birth Partner and Cultivating the Doula Heart. She is also a personal coach. As a New York City-based, DONA-approved birth doula trainer, Rina offers a three-day birth doula workshop that qualifies as two steps toward certification through DONA International: the childbirth education requirement and the doula training.

Visit www.RinaRios.com for additional information.

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