Ana Vale
⚕️Master nurse and specialist in mental
📒Health master's degree in Maternal Health and Obstetric
🚀Nursing Founder of the Caring4Moms
✔️Registered in the Order of Nurses with the nº 73131
✔️Registered in the ERS with the nº E156948
Hello! 🙂My name is Ana Soraia Vale and I have a degree in Nursing since 2011.Along with nursing, motherhood has also changed my way of seeing the world and brought me to this area where I like to be/work so much.Anyone who knows me, knows how much I love to think and practice nursing, especially in mental health field, and in the context of home support. It is in this context that I have found the greatest needs in the health area, the least accessibility, and in fact, it is where I feel at home as a professional.The passion for perinatal mental health emerged a little later, in 2015, but after I started to deepen my knowledge in this area, I never stopped.Currently, I am doing a master's degree in maternal health and obstetric nursing to be able to deepen my knowledge in the perinatal period and bring (even) more qualified care to the families' homes from pregnancy to the end of the first year after birth. It has been with immense joy, gratitude and pride that I have felt the pulse of this project and its growth, which would not be possible without the trust of the various families who come to us and without the wonderful team with whom I have the privilege of working.
Ana Rita Pereira
⚕️Degree in nursing
📒Training in "Basic Principles of Human Lactation" from the Academy of Lactation
📒Post-Graduation in Breastfeeding from the Catholic University of Portugal
🚀Founder of the project @a0via0lactea
✔️Registered in the Ordem dos Enfermeiros (Nursing board) nº77455
✔️Registered in the ERS nº44486
Hello! 🙂My name is Ana Rita Pereira and I have a degree in Nursing since 2012.I started my professional career as a nurse providing nursing care to adults/the elderly.The premature birth experience of my first child, triggered a growing interest in breastfeeding. During pregnancy I felt very prepared to breastfeed, but when my son was born at 31 weeks, I knew nothing about breastfeeding a baby who barely remembered to breathe. Without 1/100 of the information I have today, but always with the right support, I managed to ensure that my boy always had breast milk to be fed through a tube, and I maintained milk production until discharge, on his 23rd day of life.It was a hard experience, emotionally painful at times, but simultaneously very empowering. I see women around me who have hard, short, unsatisfactoy, painful breastfeeding experiences, of great anguish and vulnerability because they are constantly questioning their ability to feed their own child. It often occurs to me that I too could have been one of those women if I hadn't come across up-to-date professionals.That's how I started my path in supporting families in their breastfeeding journeys. I believe in individual, respectful, evidence-based accompaniment, using effective but welcoming communication.
