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Penny Simkin PT
Penny Simkin, PT, is a physical therapist who has specialized in childbirth education since 1968. She estimates she has prepared over 9,500 women, couples, and siblings for childbirth. She has assisted hundreds of women or couples through childbirth as a doula. She is the author of many books on birth for both parents and professionals. Her latest products for birth educators and doulas are The Road Map of Labor a birth video, titled The 3Rs: Relaxation, Rhythm, and Ritual, and a Birth Sling--an aid to the dangle position for second stage labor.
Currently, she serves on several boards of consultants and editorial boards, including the journal, Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care; the International Childbirth Education Association; and the Seattle Midwifery School.
Through independent study and her work as a birth counselor, she has developed a counseling approach for pregnant survivors of sexual abuse. This work is described in the book, When Survivors Give Birth, which she co-authored with Phyllis Klaus.
Today her practice consists of childbirth education, birth counseling, and labor support, combined with a busy schedule of conferences and workshops.
Penny and her husband, Peter, have four grown children, eight grandchildren, ranging in age from a 1 to 20 years, and a pug, Hugo.
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