Janice Ingram, CD/PCD, CBE, CHW-C

Janice Ingram is an Associate Director with Birth It Forward, a highly experienced full-spectrum doula, and owner-operator of Blissful Beginnings. She has been a full service birth professional of 5 years. Janice is certified as an educator to teach on childbirth and community resources as a Doula for the BIPOC community. she contract with many non profit organizations to support families in being educated and getting the resources they need through herself or other organizations when there are grant funds available to do so. She installs and inspects car seats and typically like to provide car seats through a training program that she teaches for installing car seats. She is a safe sleep provider and educates on the proper ways to put an infant to bed and also the safe usage of pack and plays/cribs, which when available she also likes to give to those families in need based on completion of class. The one stop shop method helps her to reach many families being that she travels within an hour of her home to provide services.

Janice attends and speaks at vendor events for families in need. She has supplied equipment to community baby showers she attends along with education materials to schedule classes with attendees who have state based insurance plans and need the support that she is able to offer. She donates time to clients who need birth support through a non-profit, volunteer with the health department assisting in birth support for immigrant and refugee populations, and work with numerous nonprofits educating on how Doulas are helpful to clients through pregnancy.