Doula Training Classes
Empowering aspiring doulas through training
Doula Training – $850
Birth Learning is excited to offer a virtual and a hybrid option for doula training. This comprehensive doula training includes experts in many fields from across the U.S. Our curriculum is always being reworked and refreshed.
Topics Covered
• Review the history of birth in the United States
• Explore cultural components and health disparities surrounding birth
• Use current research to help professionally develop you as a doula
• Demonstrate how to approach and educate your clients in prenatal visits to meet individual needs
• Understand the dynamics of the pelvis and how doulas can facilitate fetal rotation and descent
• Master verbal and non-verbal communications
• Gain skills to provide physical and emotional comfort measures
• Recognize and support trauma in clients, using trauma-informed care techniques
• Identify high-risk scenarios and medical complications
• How to record and document client information
• Review of breastfeeding and the postpartum period
• How to establish, run, and market your doula business
• Importance of birth as a story
• Explore real-life case studies and learn birth vocabulary definitions
Birth Learning Doula Training, Fall 2024, Virtual Platform
Class Dates & Times
(Tuesday times 5-8 MST/8-11 EST, Wednesday times 6-9 pm MST/8-11 EST, Saturday times 9-12 MST/11-2EST and 2-5 MST/4-7EST)
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- Wednesday, September 11, 6-9 pm: The role of a doula and physiologic birth
- Saturday, September 14, 9am-12 pm: History lesson and health disparities
- Saturday, September 14, 2-5 pm: Prenatal #1 and doula research
- Wednesday, September 18: Prenatal #2
- Wednesday, September 25: Breastfeeding
- Saturday, September 28, 9am-12pm: High Risk and Complications
- Saturday, September 28, 2-5 pm: Trauma-informed care and PMADs
- Tuesday, October 1, 5-8pm: Pelvic Dynamics
- Wednesday, October 2, 6-9 pm: As a Business
- Wednesday, October 9, 6-9 pm: Birth stories and closing
Birth Learning Doula Training, Fall 2024, Hybrid Platform
Class Dates & Times
(Tuesday times 5-8 MST/7-10 EST, Wednesday times 6-9 pm MST/8-11 EST, Saturday times 9-5:30 MST/11-7:30EST)
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- Friday, September 20, 9:00am-5:30pm in person in Salt Lake City, UT
- Saturday, September 21, 9:00am-5:30pm in person in Salt Lake City, UT
- Wednesday, September 25, 6-9 pm, Breastfeeding virtual
- Tuesday, October 1, 5-8 pm, Pelvic Dynamics virtual
- Wednesday, October 2, 6-9 pm, As a Business virtual
- Wednesday, October 9, 6-9 pm Birth Stories and Closing virtual