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 support 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 support through your journey
Evidence-Based
Dive deeply into the science of primal health, bonding, breastfeeding, skin-to-skin contact
Are you seeking a Postpartum Doula Program
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 do will be
rounded in the 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.
- Our Postpartum Doula Trainings are held online and in-person
- Take up to one year to complete your postpartum doula certification (if more time is needed … an extension assures your completed work counts)
- In-depth training includes a workshop and home study
- Mentorship throughout your training
- 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 this time of transformation. Start Your Journey!
"Thank you again for coming to California to teach this amazing philosophy of birth. I have been changed by this experience and I am forever grateful to you for that!"
- CA
“Once I decided I wanted to be a postpartum doula and serve new mothers and their families, I did a lot of research to find a program that aligned with my philosophy and would be flexible for my life as a mother to a 9 month old. As soon as I saw “Birth is Instinctive” on the website, my interest was peaked. Here was a program that was all online, a big seller for me, with such a holistic, physiological approach to birth and postpartum care. The reading list was amazing, the staff responded to me promptly and with care, my mentor was always just an email away. The program furthered my admiration and respect for newborn babies and mamas. It deepened my conviction that babies are wise, and postpartum mothers and their families are so deserving of respectful, heart-centered care. That’s the most important lesson the program taught me, and it’s something I carry with me to every client and in all my interactions with people. “
- Emily Parekh
“When the transition from the womb to the outside world is smooth, the baby feels safer and happier. Then, the baby’s development is
optimal and the mother can relax and feel more confident as a parent.”
BirthWorks Postpartum Doula Certification concepts include:
BirthWorks Postpartum Doula Certification concepts include:
- How a human-values approach to postpartum care and parenting
- Significance of mental health, deeply 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 overall development 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 other ways to support in continuing your postpartum doula career including re-certifying with us, advanced doula trainings to become a Kangaroula, and cross-certifying if you are already certified through another organization.
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Are you a birth or medical professional
looking to enhance your skills?
We offer continuing education for Midwives, Labor and Delivery Nurses, OB/GYNs … Birth professionals often join our workshops to enhance their skills.We also offer cross-certification.
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