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Uplifting parenting power with nurturing & vibrant scientific insights
🔅 Creative Childbirth Education
🔅 BabyBrains® workshops: Neuroscience 4 happy families
🔅 Professional Postpartum Care Provider in training
30/03/2022
Tomorrow my son will be 7. After he was born we passed the first months still in symbiosis, skin to skin, heart to heart.
Do you know why human newborns are different from other animals and why they need soooo much from us?
We will talk about this and more during the next BabyBrains course: a course based on the latest insights from Neuroscience on child development to help us understand what is happening in in their little brains.
📆Friday April 1st at 12:00 there will be the first online workshop.
🔴register at
29/03/2022
Are they going to remember these precious moments together?
Is it worth trying to create nice memories for our kids at a such young age?
What are they going to remember?
🔶We are going to introduce our BabyBrains course next Friday April 1st answering to these and many other interesting questions related to our relationship with our kids.
🔴The topic this week is memory and good family habits: in what are human babies different than other animal babies? How can we nourish who they are?
📆Friday April 1st from 12:00 to 13:00
Online
If interested, register School
01/03/2022
In case you lost yesterday me interviewed by Kasia, founder of Mamamoon School, here is the link. Enjoy ☺️
Dear followers, this is the first post on this professional page after a long time and I think you deserve an explanation.
After two years of reasoning on pros and cons, my family and I decided to relocate to Italy.
The pregnancy with my second daughter triggered in me a sense of need to go back to my roots, discover my home country, getting close to family and friends and trying to be part of its -hopefully positive-future. We packed our lives in three weeks and we left.
We are now settling slowly slowly, as making two different bureaucratic systems talk to each other is very complicated, but we are getting there.
Practicalities: I will keep giving ONLINE
- CHILDBIRTH EDUCATION COURSES for the Italian community in the Netherlands.
- NEUROSCIENCE-BASED PARENTING WORKSHOPS called BabyBrains with Mamamoon school.
So if you want updates from me, please follow also
For example, this afternoon at 2 pm I will be interviewed live by Kasia, founder of Mamamoon and we will talk about my work at BabyBrains.
22/11/2021
📣Tantrums do not exist!
I was in Cartagena for holidays when my first son was a toddler. We’ve just arrived there after a week with our family in Medellin when he met everyone for the first time.
🏠He has been cuddled, people played with him, he had a really good time. 🥰
💔But that was not mummy. The cozy, soft, warm and welcoming mommy.
😫So once the excitement shaded off and we arrived to our destination, he had a HUGE meltdown in the middle of the street, while we were getting to know the area where we were.
My mind started to spin:
🧐Well, Valentina, this is clearly a tantrum!
🤨He is misbehaving!
😖How do you call it if not a tantrum?
😩You need to teach him proper manners!
🤥He cannot behave like this, especially in public!
👉Who wants to add some more typical comment to a child’s meltdown?
⚠️Anyway, the short answer is: HE is having a hard time, he is not making you having a hard time!⚠️
❓What is happening in his mind when he reacts this way?
❓Why those comments are just nonsense?
✅A clue: theory of mind.
Want to know more about a child’s brain when he is having a “tantrum”? And how to deal with it?
📆We will talk about manipulation, tantrums and theory of mind during the second workshop of BabyBrains-neuroscience for happy families, on Wednesday November 24th at 18:00
One workshop cost 30 euros, you can get the whole 6-workshops course for 140 euros.
Get in touch to know more!
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09/11/2021
🎶I know your smell, I know you well, I’ve been addicted to you🎶
…but I don’t remember anything else in my life 😅
Baby-brain is a mocking term used to refer to mothers who encounter a phase of forgetfulness while expecting a baby and after giving birth. But it’s not just this bad. It is a very important process in building the relationship with their babies.
Follow us tomorrow Wednesday November 10th at 18:00 CET.
As a new trainer in the school, I will hold a free and online teaser BabyBrains’ lecture about the changes a mother’s brain faces during pregnancy.
Get in touch for the invitation link!
💡And do not miss my new page on the Mamamoon School website! It’s gorgeous! did an amazing job putting it all together! 👏
Your brain literally shrinks becoming a mom. Why this is a good thing for your relationship with your child?
Follow our BabyBrains teaser lecture on November 10th at 18:00 CET. It’s online and free!
Mamamoon school is welcoming me as a new crew member offering nice discounts to my clients!
Get in touch to know more!
📸 Soyut Suratlar
01/11/2021
I am a new ’ teacher! This great school created by the amazing and collects many professionals in the field of pregnancy, birth, post partum and parenting, to create the village we are often missing by living far from our home countries.
So happy to be able to share with all of you the knowledge about how a baby brain works and guide you to discover your inner parenting power with my BabyBrains workshops!
Follow us on the teaser lecture on HOW PREGNANCY IMPACTS A MOTHER'S BRAIN
Time: November 10th at 6pm CET
Location: Online. It’s free!
Get in touch to receive the invitation link!
09/10/2021
🤩Ready for an amazing outing with 🤩
🎶Exciting 🥰🥳😁
27/09/2021
🥰And the last class of this Childbirth Education Course is over. How proud of them I am!
❤️you see a lot of doubts when they step in the first time and a lot of self confidence when you wave them goodbye
❤️you see their eyes sparkling
❤️you see them knowing what they want every day more
❤️you see them every time more connected with their baby
❤️and you see relationships, possibly friendships, growing along with learning, experiencing and opening their hearts.
I will be forever grateful to all the families I have accompanied in these years. You are the reason I chose this job! 😘
20/09/2021
“There are still a few worthy causes for women's rights in the west”-I recently have been told- “the rest is hysterical, irrational, unhinged and fanatical”.
I give my childbirth education classes in the centre of Amsterdam, in the evening. Last week I got out my workplace at 23:00 and in my way back to Centraal Station to take the ferry and go home I was alone, that street is dark and restaurants were closing. I have been cat called. I froze. My usual reaction when in fear. I tried to walk faster and the ferry just left. 20 minutes alone there waiting for the next one.
I felt vulnerable, fragile, naked and insecure. It has been already an intense day for many other reasons. This has just been the cherry on the top.
I didn’t told this to anybody, except my very close people.
I passed the whole week asking myself what would have been a safer way to reach my workplace next time, today. Maybe the opposite direction and taking the metro? Going with the scooter? Parking my car in front of the door?
Tonight I dressed myself not the way I liked it, not the way would reflect myself, otherwise, in my mind, it would have been risky doing the same street tonight.
And even writing this now I hear a small voice inside my head saying that I am exaggerating and it is just me feeling unsafe that brought me walking with my keys between my fingers as an only way to possibly defend myself.
This is just one of the too many experiences in my life when I need to think every single step of my way to be safe. And all the women I know have experienced this at least once in their life.
Get your conclusions about.
But yeah, we are just “hysterical, fanatical, and not worthy of attention in the calls we do. Women’s rights are now equal to men’s once”.
Wees de eerste die het weet en laat ons u een e-mail sturen wanneer Doulentina nieuws en promoties plaatst. Uw e-mailadres wordt niet voor andere doeleinden gebruikt en u kunt zich op elk gewenst moment afmelden.
I started my professional career as a Neuroscientist 10 years ago with the idea that science would have been my way to contribute in making this a better world, helping people. “You are a scientist but you don’t look like a scientist completely” people used to tell me. It is true, science satisfies a part of me, but not the whole Valentina.
With time, experience, and in particular the birth of my son, I looked back and I noticed that the most fulfilling experiences I have ever had were not while just working inside a laboratory, but happened while connecting with people and helping them directly. I decided then to attend a training to become a doula, at JJ Doula in Amsterdam and I finally felt home. I believe that, in this phase of my life, my way to contribute in making this a better world is helping families giving birth in a more respectful way, “mothering the mother”, making the difference one birth at a time.
So here I am, I am a Doula, this means that I will support you (and your partner) in the exciting journey of giving birth. And mostly, I will be there for you.
I love this job because it combines the scientific rigor typical of my education (you can see it in searching, selecting and providing evidenced based information about every aspect of childbirth), with a holistic view of the woman, the pregnancy and the childbirth as natural processes. While doing this job I feel that all the parts of me are fed and nurtured.
I work in Amsterdam and surroundings.
I speak Italian (native), English and I am fluent in Spanish.
