Doula Training Classes
Empowering aspiring doulas through training
Doula Training – $800
Birth Learning is excited to launch our doula training on a virtual platform. This comprehensive and accredited 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, Spring 2024, Virtual Platform
Class Dates & Times
(Thursday 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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- Thursday, March 7: Becoming a doula and physiologic birth
- Thursday, March 14: History of birth in the USA and health disparities
- Saturday, March 16: Prenatal #1 and doula research
- Saturday, March 16: Prenatal #2
- Thursday, March 21: Pelvic Dynamics
- Thursday, March 28 : High Risk and complications
- Saturday, March 30: As a business
- Saturday, March 30: Trauma-informed care and PMADs
- Thursday, April 11: Breastfeeding
- Thursday, April 18: Birth stories and closing