4 Day DONA Approved Birth Doula Training 

Two weekends: June 3,4 and 10,11 from 9AM-5PM
at Southern Jamaica Plain Community
Health Promotion Center

with 
Lorenza Holt, MPH, BCCE, BDT(DONA)

COURSE WILL OFFER COMPREHRENSIVE INTERACTIVE LEARNING ON:

• The significance of birth across cultures
• The benefits of doula support
• How to work with the mother's medical team
• Providing comfort and emotional support during all stages of labor, including difficult labors, cesarean births and VBACs
  
• How to build a trusting and meaningful relationship with mom and her family during pregnancy, labor, birth, and the first weeks postpartum
• Supporting newborns
• DONA International's Code of Ethics, Standards of Practice and additional required steps to certification as a DONA Int'l Birth Doula

WHY A FOUR DAY TRAINING?

We want all students to complete the course feeling fully confident and prepared to provide doula support to birthing women. For this reason, I am teaching a 26 hour course over 4 full days. I believe that this structure and pace will give students time to read the manual in between sessions, continue reading the required books, refelect on what they are learning, ask questions, and prepare homework. This will help assure that all students gain a deeper understanding of the material.

 PREREQUISITES

This course will prepare you to be a birth doula. It will not cover the content of a childbirth education class or breastfeeding fundamentals.  Applicants are expected to come with a fundamental understanding of pregnancy, labor and birth, the associated medical vocabulary, common interventions, common complications and standard obstetrical technology.

The following prerequisites will give participants the foundation the training requires, as well as meet the requirement for certification with DONA International.

• Read Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Newborn by Penny Simkin, et al
• Read The Birth Partner by Penny Simkin
• Read The Doula Book by Klaus and Kennel

AND

• Observe a  comprehensive childbirth education class series that is at least 12 hours long
  (see description in DONA requirements for certification as a birth doula )
  

•  The 7 hour BACE Introduction to Childbirth Education workshop can be substituted if previously attended, but it is not scheduled again before June.
  

Please contact us before registering if you have questions about how we can help you gain the fundamental knowledge needed to be a birth doula, as well as meet and complete the prerequisites.

FEES

DONA Birth Doula Training Course: $500 for 4 days**

Please  contact the registrar about:

• Group discounts for 5 or more registrants
• Any other registration questions

**Continental breakfast included, lunch will be on your own

REFUND POLICY: Refunds will be granted up to 2 weeks before the start of the course, less a $50 administrative fee. In case of illness or serious hardship after that, applicants may defer attendance of all or
part of the program until the next available birth doula training. No refunds will be possible unless we can fill
the space.

Register Now! BACE-NMC reserves the right to cancel the course due to under enrollment or unforseen circumstances.