Postpartum Doula Training and Certification
Effective mother-care is the most valuable way to positively impact overall wellness of babies and new families. Everything flows from loving care as parents meet their newborn and grow their family. This supporting role is available to you.
A Spiritual Approach
Honor the deep significance of a loving mother-baby bond for health
Ongoing Mentorship
Grow into a fantastic postpartum doula with personal support during your journey
Evidence-Based
Dive deep into science of primal health, bonding, skin-to-skin contact and breastfeeding
Are you seeking Postpartum Doula training
that resonates and connects deeply with you?
Have a life-long impact on the baby and family by offering reassurance, love and emotional support in the early weeks of parenting. What you offer is grounded in best-practices of science. ln addition to their gratitude, your impact continues throughout their lives
Our Postpartum Doula Certification is straightforward, comprehensive and flexible.
Our Postpartum Doula Certification is straightforward, comprehensive and flexible.
- You do home study for part, get mentored and attend a workshop
- Take up to one year to complete your certification.. you end up needing more time, an extension assures your completed work counts.)
- In-depth training includes a live workshop (virtual or in-person)
- You get Personal Mentorship through your training period
- Join an organization that believes in our innate birthing abilities!
The BirthWorks Postpartum Doula Training and Certification Process is Easy!
You choose to start with the Workshop or your online learning.
Register & meet your Mentor
Find a postpartum doula workshop
Complete at your own pace
Be best prepared to support families during a transformative time. Start Your Journey!
BirthWorks Postpartum Doula Certification concepts include:
BirthWorks Postpartum Doula Certification concepts include:
- How a human-values approach to postpartum care and parenting is the ideal
- Significance of mental health, deep listening and acknowledging feelings and needs, to help heal and empower new parents
- How to praise the new mother and build trust in her instincts
- Importance and physiology of breastfeeding for baby and mother health
- Deeper significance of mother-baby skin-to-skin contact and impact on breastfeeding success and optimal health of babies
- Primal behaviors, innate fetal agenda and child development
- Importance of sensory integration between the mother and the baby
- Six sleep states of babies to help understand normal newborn behaviors
- Surrendering to what is, to make the “fourth trimester” more smoothly
- Discovering your best self in this role and growing your postpartum business
Are you already a certified Postpartum Doula?
BirthWorks offers many ways to enhance your career including advanced doula trainings to become a Kangaoroula and cross-certifying with BWI, if you earned certification from a different organization before. Also, if certified with BirthWorks in the past re-certifying with us, advanced doula trainings to become a Kangaroula, and cross-certifying if you are already certified through another organization.
