This is the first step in your Birth Doula journey!

Join DONA Approved Birth Doula Trainers, Julia Sittig & Christy Muscato @ BBC for a weekend full of challenging and interactive learning! Julia & Christy both have over twenty years of hands-on birth doula experience and are regularly in the class teaching adult learners. They have spent countless hours mentoring new doulas and building partnerships across communities and systems to help pave the way for your doula journey. You will leave the weekend ready to dive in!

GET READY FOR IMMERSION! Our training week-end is packed full of both intellectual and hands-on learning to support physiologic birth, as well as learning the ins and outs of medical interventions and how those sometimes interplay with labor. We work together on comfort measures and non-pharmacological pain management techniques, the doula’s role before, during and after birth, and the invaluable role of communication skills and values clarification as you work with as a birth team with those around you. From the moment you walk forward as a new doula, we are here to support you. We have developed a large training community that provides access for multiple touch points along the way with us as trainers, with the doula community at large, and with DONA International as your training and certifying organization. You do not go out into this work alone. The incredible group that you train with becomes your doula family and we work hard to instill that community approach in all we do.

TOPICS COVERED INCLUDE: Birth Doula Basics, The Significance of a Doula, The Business of Being a Doula, Evidence-based Information about Doula Support, The Physiology of Birth, Comfort Measures and Coping Skills, The Newborn and Immediate Postpartum, Medical Practices, History and Significance of Birth across Time, Communication Skills and Crossing Cultures, Maternal and Infant Health Disparities and the History of Birth in BIPOC Communities, Ethics and Standards of Practice, the DONA Certification Process, and more.

IMPORTANT: Before registering, please be sure you can participate fully in the entire training. This Birth Doula workshop is designed to train professional Birth Doulas AND it includes a childbirth education class. Both of these offered components are two of the steps to certification for Doulas of North America International (DONA). Certificates cannot be issued for partial attendance. Refund Policy: Refunds can be issued up to one month prior to the training, minus a 20% non-refundable deposit. No refunds within one month of the training.

SPONSORED BY: This training is sponsored by Beautiful Birth Choices LLC. BBC will be handling registration and contact information. If you have questions or concerns about either of these, or about the training itself, please contact us directly at [email protected] and we would be happy to help you!