I am an instructor at Bastyr University at the Simkin Center and have been teaching the Birth
Doula Skills Workshop since July 2006.
Not exact matches
This 4 hour course is offered the day prior to the Birth
Doula Workshop and is essential, as you'll learn the
skills necessary to help families establish breastfeeding and gain confidence in supporting them through early days.
This 21 / 2 - day hands - on
workshop is designed to prepare advanced level birth
doulas with the tools and
skills to serve as an assistant to a home birth midwife at a 36 week prenatal home visit, home birth and the strategies to work cooperatively with the home birth midwifery team, Experience in breastfeeding support, childbirth education and other birth
skills are important.
This 12 - hour hands - on
workshop is designed to prepare birth
doulas with the tools and
skills to provide extended labor support services to home birthing families and the strategies to work cooperatively with the home birth midwifery team.
A few times a year, I offer weekend advanced
skills workshops for working
doulas through Two Doulas
doulas through Two
Doulas Doulas Birth.
We offer childbirth education, highly
skilled and compassionate birth
doulas, educated and experienced postpartum
doulas, placenta encapsulation services,
workshops and classes for new parents, siblings and grandparents,
doula mentorship opportunities, and prenatal, postnatal and babywearing fitness and yoga classes.
This
workshop is unique in several ways: the 4 - day training is longer than many
doula trainings because I learned in my early years of offering
doula training that new
doulas improved dramatically when they had abundant time for reinforcement of
skills and knowledge through repetition.
For several years, I joined homebirth midwives in guild meetings,
workshops, conferences, listservs, and assisted them as they cared for women, or worked alongside them as I offered my
doula skills to their clients.