Introduction to Midwifery & Doula Training Course Humboldt County Apr/May 2025
$1,250.00
Completion of this class will give you a clear understanding of midwifery & doula work and help you explore your heart connection to this work. You will receive some foundational knowledge of normal pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. You will learn how to talk with families about their birth dreams and create a postpartum plan. You will learn the skills of the Birth Doula through labor support techniques and the Stages of Labor. You learn the ways of the Postpartum Doula and special offerings that are so deeply nourishing to the healing process of birth. You will receive a Doula Certification Card and feel confident in offering your services as a doula.
April 25th - 27th and May 9th - 11th
Two weekends, one class
Location: TBA
Welcome!
If you are here, you’re being called…
Birth work is a calling.
This work is all heart, hands, and being truly in service to others.
This magical combination inspires deep joy and meaning to life.
Now more than ever, we need connection. Connection happens when we are witnessed, heard, and heart centered. This work demands intuition, awareness, and self examination.
Birth work calls us to be utterly present in the moment.
It’s a gift to be part of such a profound time in a person’s life.
It’s my vision to build a powerful community network of support for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. I want all women, birthing people, and partners to get the support they need and deserve during this transformative experience of bringing life into the world.
Completion of this class will give you a clear understanding of midwifery & doula work and help you explore your heart connection to this work. You will receive some foundational knowledge of normal pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. You will learn how to talk with families about their birth dreams and create a postpartum plan. You will learn the skills of the Birth Doula through labor support techniques and the Stages of Labor. You learn the ways of the Postpartum Doula and special offerings that are so deeply nourishing to the healing process of birth.
We will discuss tactical ways of integrating this work into your life.
You will receive a Doula Certification Card and feel confident in offering your services as a doula. The most exciting update is that Medi-Cal has started reimbursing for doula services as of 2023! This is brand new and we will continue navigating through this process together but it is an amazing opportunity for this work. I’m so excited about it!
Heart and Hands by Elizabeth Davis : Order online here
The Birth Partner by Penny Simpkin : Order online here
You may be able to find these at local used book stores, or the local spots will order them for you (North Town, Blake's). I have linked spots to order them online. There may be cheaper places to order—feel free to look around.
Topics Covered:
- Exploring your calling to birth work
- Informed consent and body sovereignty
- Scope of practice for doulas and midwives
- Cycles, fertility, and development
- Qualities of each trimester
- Herbs and nutrition
- Pregnancy discomforts and danger signs
- Stages of labor, and labor support for each stage
- Optimal positioning, belly mapping, and Leopold's maneuver
- Healthy normal
- VBAC
- Unexpected circumstances
- Postpartum—immediate and beyond
We will meet from 9am to approximately 6:30pm. Saturday sessions will likely go into the evening.
I will feed you bomb food each day! Breakfast, snacks, and lunch.
We might have a wrap up zoom call in the weeks following our time together—we'll decide this together if it feels like there's more to cover when we're done!
I look forward to our time together.
Warmly,
Laura Doyle
Cost: $1250
Payment Options:
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Send Checks: Po Box 823 Arcata Ca 95518
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