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Midwife Assistant for Amish, Doula, Infertility Specialist, Author, Epigenetics, & Functional Medicine - Jaclyn Downs
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*Most people get into birth work because they had a very negative birth experience. That's not my story. I became a doula in 2001, long before it was a common term.
*Then, from about ages 24-29, I apprenticed with a home birth midwife, mostly to the Amish community.
*It was during this time that I became aware of just how common fertility challenges and miscarriages are.
*I took my nutrition education/experience and coupled it with my career in birth work (doula, prenatal/postpartum yoga instructor, placenta encapsulation specialist, founder of a doula collective that gave workshops on topics like making birth plans, breastfeeding, baby wearing, etc.) and began focusing on fertility optimization.
*When my first daughter (both born at home) was a toddler, I began doing research for a naturopath on MTHFR & methylation
*That exploded into a comprehensive functional genomic analysis that I use today to support my clients to get to foundational causes of puzzling health challenges, like fertility.
I am a functional nutrigenomics practitioner and author of the academically published book, Enhancing Fertility through Functional Medicine: Using Nutrigenomics to Solve 'Unexplained' Infertility.
FIND HER HERE:
https://jaclyndowns.com/
https://www.instagram.com/functionalfertilitysolutions/
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