École Porter la Vie
Professional Training School Specializing
in Babywearing and Skin-to-Skin Contact
Our Mission : To Pass on The Art of Babywearing
We train babywearing instructors and equip perinatal practitioners in Quebec and throughout the French-speaking world.
Professional Training
Skin-to-Skin Training
- 4 to 5 hours
- 100% online courses
- 1 virtual meeting
- Individual path
To advise and accompany skin-to-skin care after the first two hours of life. Physiological mechanisms, benefits, safety and miracles.
Babywearing Consultant
- 33 hours
- Online and face-to-face courses
- 2 virtual meetings
- 1 day of group practice
To encourage safe, physiological babywearing (0-3 months). Physiology, baby development and all the benefits of babywearing
Babywearing Instructor
- 58 hours
- Online and face-to-face courses
- 3 virtual meetings
- 2 days of group practice
To teach babywearing.
Hip and back carrying techniques adapted to the specific needs of each family.
Discover the power of postnatal proximity practices.
At the heart of every family, babywearing and skin-to-skin contact support the development of innate human potential: from intelligence to health and empathy.
To Make Babywearing Simple and Accessible...
A Transmission Chain to Be Recreated
* No obligation on your part
Workshops and Conferences
Short, practical program: all baby carriers, basic adjustments and safety.
All-inclusive package for new parents preparing to carry their baby. Beginner-level online course, plus a private workshop with an instructor.
Janie Vachon-R. presents skin-to-skin contact, babywearing and its benefits, babywearing and breastfeeding, etc.
Don't hesitate to request the workshop that's right for your group, clientele or audience.
What Our Students Have to Say...
" I've learned so much more than I expected and I'm so grateful to you".
"Training with Porter la vie is much more than learning how to put a baby in a sling.
It's a tool for bonding with your child, fostering their development and meeting their needs as well as those of the parent.
" The training has enabled me to gain important knowledge about newborns and our interaction with them. A better understanding of their needs and the impact of our actions.
The teaching I received gave me a new vision and enabled me to bring to those around me an approach that goes through the skin and through contact with one's child.
I feel very well equipped to teach them how and why to do it .
The Founder
Janie Vachon-Robillard
A pioneer in babywearing education in Quebec
Trainer, author, speaker and perinatal coach
For over 20 years, I’ve helped hundreds of families rediscover babywearing and the use of traditional or modern baby carriers.
Inspired by my childhood travels in South America, I tamed and rediscovered this ancestral practice on my own in the absence of resources in the early 2000s.
It was in response to requests from my community that I began teaching babywearing and later set up my professional training courses.
After training several hundred instructors across Quebec, the need arose to create a network, and so was born the Institut national du portage des enfants (INPE), a community organization with which I’ve worked in close partnership ever since.
My work explores how parent-child proximity at the very beginning of life contributes to laying the foundations for a more harmonious human experience, one that listens and respects oneself, others and our environment.
