Doula Training Courses
Empowering aspiring doulas through training
Birth Doula Training – $850
Birth Learning has trained doulas for 10 years to be prepared to be successful in birth work. 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 Doula Training Fall 2025
Class Dates & Times
(Friday and Saturday times 9am-5:30pm MST / 11-7:30 EST, Wednesday times 6-9pm MST / 8-11 EST)
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- Friday, Sept 26, 9:00am-5:30pm in person in Salt lake City, UT
- Saturday, Sept 27, 9:00am-5:30pm in person in Salt Lake City, UT
- Wednesday, Oct 1, 6-9pm, As a Business (Virtual)
- Wednesday, Oct 8, 6-9pm, Breastfeeding in person
- Wednesday, Oct 15, 6-9pm, Pelvic Dynamics Workshop (Virtual)
- Wednesday, Oct 22, 5-9pm, Birth Stories and Closing in person
Postpartum Doula Training – $350
Topics Covered
• Role and scope of the postpartum doula
• Impact of layout and birth on the postpartum
• Physical and emotional healing process
• Assisting with household chores
• Educating on and supporting the care of the newborn
• Daytime and nighttime roles as a postpartum doula
• Facilitating sleep for the parents and the baby
• Technology in baby care
• Philosophies of infant and childcare
• Assessing for and understanding PMADs
• Building a resource list
• Understanding how to support breastfeeding, pumping or bottle feeding
• Empowering families during the postpartum period
Postpartum Doula Training Fall 2025
Class Dates & Times
( Saturday times 8:30am-5:30pm MST / 10:30-8:00 EST)
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- Saturday, Oct 25, 8:30 am – 6:00pm in person in Salt Lake City, UT