What is a Birth Doula?

Birth doulas support the mother through pregnancy, labor and birth. They also help during the time just after the baby is born. BirthWorks Birth Doulas bring both a human-values approach and evidence-based best practices to enhance birth experiences for mothers and babies. BirthWorks offers the best way to help women build confidence and decrease fear in birth! Through integration of the mind, body and spirit women gain ways to access their primal brain, which already knows how to give birth!

The BirthWorks Experience!

Be empowered to offer fantastic doula support at birth!

This experiential workshop is a fun, empowering way to discover ways to be most effective in supporting new mothers! Come learn a holistic way to help women in labor to access their primal brain that already knows how to give birth. Our hand-picked BirthWorks Trainers inspire you in an interactive and engaging way – you will embody the knowledge that how to give birth is born within every woman. The workshop also helps attract clients to build your business and opens an opportunity for personal growth. It is offered either – Virtually over four days or In-Person for three full days. Aspiring or current birth and medical professionals, birth partners and mothers too are welcome.

What You Will Learn

  • Optimal Pelvic Positioning making space for baby to navigate through the pelvis
  • Learn how we “speak our hormones” to anticipate emotions in birth
  • Work with energy through entrainment
  • Value of silence
  • Sensory integration
  • About your immune building microbiome
  • Effective interviewing techniques
  • How to write a birth plan and chose a birth team
  • Practicing human values to build confidence in birth
  • Risks and benefits of medical procedures
  • Importance of positive thinking and reframing
  • Conflict resolution with role plays
  • How to build and market your services
  • Integration of the mind, body, and spirit when giving birth and into parenting
  • Physiology of birth
  • Pelvic bodywork & effective positions in labor
  • Comfort measures for birth
  • Relationships with mothers
  • Primal Health and the importance of mother/baby skin-to-skin contact
  • Grieving and healing
  • Mother/infant massage
  • Breastfeeding significance and success
  • Energy of compassion and love
  • Singing and experiential exercises
  • Common Sense Nutrition
  • Managing difficult births

Birthing Parents and Certified Educators and Doulas at our workshops say they have…

Developed

  • Confidence in the birth process and in decision-making skills
  • An awareness of birthing options
  • Greater trust in birth as an instinctive process
  • Effective and creative communication skills

Explored

  • Physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of giving birth
  • Influence of individual beliefs and attitudes on the birth process
  • Influence of mother-daughter relationships on birth
  • Ways to practice human values in labor and in life

Learned

  • Importance of positive thinking
  • Comfort measures for labor and birth
  • Effects of pelvic positioning on the progress of labor
  • How to decrease neocortical stimu- lation during labor

Testimonials

Consider this Situation

  • A new mom-to-be does not know what to expect and has fears about labor and giving birth. She is getting overwhelmed.
  • She also feels alone. Maybe she has no family nearby or her partner is unsure of how to best help. Maybe intuitively she knows her medical providers are not giving her all she needs.
  • She wants support regarding her birth choices, how to make a birth plan, where to birth.
  • Ideally, she would like to know what to expect, be prepared and know someone will be there to advocate for her emotionally and physically.
  • You can become her birth doula and provide reassurance and love, plus emotional support to help her feel calm so she can relax and care for herself during pregnancy, make the most informed choices that are closest to her heart, and give her ways that help with more easeful labor and positive birth outcomes.
  • She will be grateful and remember you the rest of her life.

Want to become a Certified Birth Doula?

BirthWorks interactive online training and personal mentoring empowers you as an exceptional birth doula! Holistic and evidence-based, our human-values approach to training and services are transformational. We invite you to learn how speaking from the heart brings more love and care to your clients and connects them to the knowledge that how to give birth is born within every woman. This choice positively impacts your birth work — and your life!

Upcoming Events

Birth Doula Training
virtual

Birth Doula Workshop-June 2024 (virtual)

June 21 @ 9:00 am – June 24 @ 1:30 pm EDT

Have a Question? Let’s Chat.

Please don’t hesitate to reach us, happy to be in touch.

Cristin Tighe
Executive Director & International Coordinator
info@birthworks.org
1-609-953-9380
1-202-276-3521 Mobile/WhatsApp