Postpartum doula wins highest honor

Northwest Association for Postpartum Support’s (NAPS) co-founder and postpartum doula, Heidi Koss-Nobel, won the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a doula, the Penny Simkin award, one of DONA International’s Founders’ Awards. The Penny Simkin Award honors doulas that show extraordinary doula spirit through their outstanding efforts in promoting and caring for doulas and childbearing women in their 0communities.

Heidi is the first postpartum doula to win this award—in the past this honor has been given to labor doulas. In the Seattle and Puget Sound area, families looking for postpartum doula care have many options. Having its co-founder win this award acknowledges the Northwest Association for Postpartum Support (NAPS), and its doulas, as leaders in providing postpartum care and awareness. Heidi Koss-Nobel is co-founder of Northwest Association for Postpartum Support (NAPS), and continues to sit on the Board of Directors as their Board Advisor. She is currently Chairman of Postpartum Support International (PSI) of Washington State on the Leadership Council for Washington State Post Partum Depression (PPD) Awareness Campaign, and she is regularly interviewed and asked to speak on postpartum issues, particularly postpartum mood disorders, such as postpartum depression.