A birth doula provides physical, emotional and informational support to
the mother and partner during pregnancy, birth and early post-partum.
Begin or expand
your birth business by attending this Birth Ways International Birth Doula
Training.
This interactive 16-hour course prepares you to become a birth doula
and help a woman through labour, whether you want to support a friend through
her birth or make a career choice. You’ll leave with educational
resources and hands-on practice.
At the end of this
weekend, your view of birth, women, birth practices, and where the power
resides will be transformed!
Birth Doula Training:
Times: 7-9pm
(Fri night), 9:30-5:00pm (Sat & Sun)
Regina, SK
(See "Upcoming Events" side-bar for future dates.)
Please contact us at info@birthwaysinternational.ca to register.
At current rates there
will be over 4000 babies born in Regina over this year and only about 100
of those will be attended by a doula. There’s certainly room for more
doulas!!
Topics include:
- Practicing with integrity
- Role and responsibilities of a doula, scope of practice
- Key doula standards and professional
ethics
- Working effectively with medical care providers and others that
attend the birth
- Labour support tools, practical skills, comfort measures / coping
methods
- Common interventions and informed
decision-making
- Caesarean births and VBAC (vaginal birth
after caesarean)
- Alternative / complimentary support
methods
- Self-awareness, including your motivation
for doula work, your ideal client, your boundaries
- Basic anatomy and physiology specific to
labour and birth
- Prenatal and postpartum client visits
- Working with diverse clients/families/populations
- Sensitivity and tools for working with
client diversity
- Coping & support of unexpected events
- Basic breastfeeding initiation
- Effective communication – listening
skills, impact of language
- Honouring individual birth process -
memory of birth, narrative
- Start-up and sustaining your practise
(birth work business)
Some participants have been to births before but most haven’t.
Some are mothers and others are not. We have young women, wise elders,
and everything in between – it’s never too early or too late to embark upon
this path. Rural and urban women attend. Some participants have no
background knowledge or experience while others are healthcare
professionals.
If you wish to pursue certification through Birth Ways International,
this course is the first step.
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I want to thank you again for the passing weekend. It was unbelievable, intense
and really educational.
The combination of your passion, intuition, and vast amounts of knowledge was
amazing, and I hope to learn more from you in the future. Thank you for having
me and surrounding me with your love :)
I just want to take a minute to write to you and tell you how much
of a pleasure it was to even get to meet you let alone be taught by you ! You
are a huge inspiration to me, all of your stories and experience has
empowered me into a different person, I am so honoured to have had the
privilege to be in your class! Thanks for absolutely everything, all the
hospitality and everything!
Thanks you so much again for the wonderful weekend. I am very happy
that I decided to take part in the Doula course and found it to be such an
enlightening, passionate and great experience! I really enjoyed it and look
forward to working in the area and learning lots and lots more! Thanks again
for everything.
I attended 2013 Doula workshop. The years of experience ,knowledge
and wisdom on " Women Giving Birth". She is filled with a passion for
Birthing and delivers with such enthusiasm and straight from the heart to
the group. All the resources complied over the years to enable us to have a
solid foundation to launch our desire to begin our Doula Practice. The
atmosphere & energy at the workshop is uplifting, positive, FUN and full of
encouragement !
I would rate my personal experience 10 out of 10 and very grateful
for the opportunity to be taught by this course!!
