Becoming a birth doula can be a fulfilling and impactful career choice. Here are a few
reasons you should TRAIN WITH ME to become a birth doula:
Supporting Families
As a birth doula, you can provide crucial emotional, physical, and informational support to families during one of the most significant moments of their lives. Your presence can help ease anxieties, build confidence, and facilitate a more positive birth experience for the birthing person and their support team.
Building Relationships
Working as a birth doula allows you to forge deep connections with your clients. You have the privilege of being intimately involved in their journey to parenthood, supporting them through challenges, celebrating milestones, and ultimately witnessing the joy of new life entering the world.
Making a Difference
By becoming a birth doula, you contribute to improving birth outcomes and promoting maternal and infant well-being. Your role in facilitating a
positive birth experience can have a lasting impact on the physical and emotional health of both parents and babies. This sense of purpose and contribution to the community can be incredibly rewarding.
Empowerment:
Doulas empower individuals to make informed decisions about their birth experiences. By offering evidence-based information, advocacy, and continuous support, doulas help clients navigate the complexities of childbirth, enabling them to
feel safe, satisfied, and dignified throughout the process.
Professional Growth
Training to become a birth doula provides personal and professional development opportunities. You'll gain valuable skills in listening and communication, hands-on skills, business building, client preparation, and problem-solving. Continuing education and the DONA International certification can further enhance your opportunities, knowledge, and expertise in birth support.
Register and pay early for advance access to Nikia's digital resource library and FREE registration for Lactation Education for Doulas. Space is limited!
Your $599.29 investment includes:
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Training manuals
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Access to the supplemental digital resource library (Google Classroom) for 2 weeks post-training
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Community Childbirth Education (CBE) for Doulas.
Space is limited! Lactation for Doulas EARLY BIRD ONLY!!
The Community Childbirth Education (CBE) for Doulas, a 4-class Series, is held online monthly. This CBE series satisfies the DONA birth certification requirement: Introduction to Childbirth for Doulas. You are strongly encouraged to take the Childbirth Education series before the birth doula training. You can find more information here.
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DONA membership is encouraged, but not required. If you choose to pursue certification, you will also receive access to mentorship on your path to full DONA International Certification: CD(DONA).
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Get more information at: www.dona.org
All payments are non-refundable, but transfers are allowed within the calendar year. You may transfer ONCE per paid registration (and pay the difference in training fees, if any) PLUS a transfer fee of $99.29. You’ll receive a confirmation email with additional information and instructions after you register and submit your payment. Space is limited! Thank you!
By the end of the birth doula training, obtaining skills collectively enables doulas to provide comprehensive, personalized support to expectant parents before, during, and after childbirth. A doula can expect to acquire a variety of skills beyond just providing physical, educational, and emotional support during labor and delivery.
Communication Skills
Doulas learn to communicate to receive open feedback and be respectful, clear, concise, and consistent to help clients interact with positive and empowered interactions.
Comfort Measures
Doulas are trained in various comfort techniques such as massage, breathing exercises, positioning, and relaxation methods to help laboring individuals cope with contractions and discomfort.
Problem Solving
Doulas develop the ability to assess situations quickly and find creative solutions to address challenges that may arise during labor and delivery.
Knowledge of Labor & Birth
Doulas gain a comprehensive understanding of the physiological and emotional aspects of labor and birth, including the stages of labor, common medical interventions, and potential complications.
Postpartum Support
While primarily focused on childbirth, this doula training opportunity includes education on postpartum care and support, equipping doulas to assist families during the early postpartum period.
Effective Listening
Doulas learn listening skills to support expectant parents with informed decision-making. Doulas help clients communicate their concerns, fears, and desires surrounding childbirth.
Advocacy
Doulas learn to advocate on behalf of their clients. Help express their rights within the healthcare system, use their voice, and navigate medical interventions.
Empathy & Emotional Support
Doulas learn to provide compassionate support, validation, and encouragement to expectant parents, helping them feel empowered and confident throughout the childbirth process
Cultural Congruence
Doulas are trained to respect and honor the cultural beliefs, traditions, and practices of diverse populations, ensuring culturally sensitive support for expectant parents.
Business & Professional Skills
Doulas will receive basic preparation in business development, marketing, and professional ethics to establish and maintain successful doula practices. The goal is to stay "booked and busy!"