Ann Grauer AdvCD/AdvPCD(DONA), BDT/PDT(DONA), LCCE, FACCE, IBCLC, RLC

Ann Grauer, AdvCD/AdvPCD(DONA), PDT(DONA), LCCE, FACCE, and IBCLC is celebrating 35 years of working with expectant, birthing, and new families. She is the recipient of Lamaze International’s prestigious Elisabeth Bing Award for excellence in childbirth education and DONA International’s Phyllis Klaus Founders Award for outstanding, positive impact on parent-infant bonding. A charter member of DONA International, she helped create and implement DONA’s postpartum doula training and certification programs.

A board-certified lactation consultant in private practice, she is also a Motherhood Studies Certified Practitioner, a Gottman Institute Bringing Baby Home Educator, and was the first doula certified to perform the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment (NBAS).

A mom of two, mother-in-law of two, and Mamaw to the precocious Margot, Ann and her husband live in Milwaukee with their long-haired dachshund, Howie.