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Holistic Birth & Parenting Consultants
Helping You Get Excited to Give Birth Naturally
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Advanced Holistic Doula Course
Next Course Begins March 2010 email for more information & registration...
This advanced holistic doula training course is designed for those who have a keen interest in the empowerment of women through birth as a rite of passage. Together we will dive deeply into the heart and mysteries of Natural Childbirth, Doula care, Motherhood and Women’s empowerment. This course includes and greatly expands upon typical birth Doula Training.
We offer prenatal, birth and postnatal training as we feel that women need nurturing care in the postpartum as much if not more than during pregnancy and birth. We train our holistic Doulas in the continuum of childbirth.
Plus... 1 Day Pre-Training (attendance optional for Doulas who have certified with other organizations)
This course runs for 4 weekends beginning March 27 & 28th, April 17 & 18, May 8 & 9 Ending May 29th & 30th (8 full days)
Books we require you to read (you will be required to write a 400 word essay about your personal reflections) –
Sacred birthing, Calm Birth, Gentle birth Gentle mothering, Birth and Breastfeeding, Primal health, Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth, Spiritual Midwifery, Active Childbirth, Rediscovering Birth, online childbirth class, The Politics of Birth by Sheila Kitzinger
Books we ask that you own for reference materials:
- Empowering women
- Birth Territory and Midwifery Guardianship
- The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth by Sheila Kitzinger
- All books by Jill Aviva Romm
The Role of the Doula
Required Reading Before The Training:
The Birth Partner: A complete Guide to childbirth for Dads, Doulas, and all other labor companions by Penny Simpkin
Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Newborn: The complete Guide-Penny Simpkin
The Doula Book: How A Trained Labor Companion Can Help You Have A Shorter, Easier, And Healthier Birth by by Marshall H. Klaus, John H. Kennell, Phyllis H. Klaus
What we will discuss:
- · What do women really need from us?
- · What is “informational” and “emotional” support?
- · What is informed choice?
- · Medical Terminology
- · Birth Politics At Home and in the Hospital
- · Pre Natal Testing
- · Typical birth Interventions at home and in the hospital
- · External Signs of labour
- · Comfort Measures for Labour
- · Packing Your Birth Bag
- · Birth over 35, VBAC and caesarean births and troubleshooting
difficult labours
- · Newborn and apgars
- · Creating Your Resource Binder
- · What is the practice of a Doula really like?
- · Organization, Client Forms and Record Keeping
- · Doula Self Care
Pregnancy:
- What is an Empowered pregnancy – making decisions
- · Anatomy and Physiology – female reproductive, Menstruation, conception
- · Wise women way of healing – Susan Weed
- · Care givers – choices
- · Standard testing vs Holistic self directed care-GBS, GTT, Blood pressure, Eclampsia, bleeding, nausea – Holistic Health Protocols for common pregnancy concerns
- · Holistic Nutrition & Herbology- Gestational diabetes & Anemia
- · Anatomy & Physiology – blood volume stuff,
- · Palpation & blood pressure
- · Nurturing – the wheel of nurturing, how to nurture during pregnancy
Birth
- Ecstatic Birth: Hormonal Blueprint of Labour & Transcending Pain
- The Physiological Birth Allies: Sphincters, Engorgement, Oxytocin & the Fetal Ejection Reflex
- The Undisturbed Birthing Paradigm- How Ancient Birthing Wisdom is Evolving Modern Birth
- How to assist in creating an environment that supports birth physiology
- The Dance of Labor-Holistic Stages of Labor
- Re Sexualizing Childbirth
- The sacredness of birth
- Instinctive Birth at Home and in the Hospital
- Protecting/guardianship of the birth space
- Doula as witness
- Altered states – how to manage your energy within this environment
- Birth Theatre – Birth scenarios as Doula
- Birth “complications” – Understanding the physiology and figuring out how to respond
- Navigating the Hospital environment
- Home birth, Water birth, lotus birth
- Massage Techniques for Pregnancy and Birth
- Homeopathy,Herbs and Acupressure for Labor and Birth
- Optimal Fetal Positioning and Prevention of Posterior Presentation
- Birthing in an Upright Position and the Work of Dr. Michel Odent
- Water birth and Maternal Well Being
- The Sacredness of Birth --Returning Birth to the Family
Pre & Perinatal Psychology
- The baby’s experience of pregnancy
- Calm birth
Newborn: Routine Care of the Newborn
- -suctioning
- -resuscitation
- -delayed cord cutting (benefits and misguided concerns)
- -bathing (impact on bonding and benefits of vernix)
- -eye prophylaxis
- -heel prick test for metabolic disorders (Newborn Screen Testing)
- -synthetic vitamin administration
- -vaccination
- -circumcision
Immediate newborn care
Jaundice – ways to care for
Newborns experience of birth- pre and perinatal psychology
Homeopathy – constitutions, common remedies for babies issues
Helping Baby Heal from Birth Trauma
Connecting in With Your Baby
Homeopathic Pediatric Constitutional Remedies
Craniosacral Therapy
Mother as Healer
Postpartum/Motherhood
Undisturbed First Hour After Birth (the 4 B's!)
- Babymoon
- Bleeding
- Bonding
- Baby led Breastfeeding
- Postpartum Rejuvenation
- The Motherblessing
- The Care and Honouring of the Placenta
- Nourishing the Mother With Food and Herbal Infusions
- 42 Day Sacred Window
- Oil Application
- Moxibustion, Uterine Massage and Bellywrapping
- Immediate postpartum – do not disturb the birthing mama (Odent)
- Bleeding – herbs, homeopathy
- Postpartum depression – signs and symptoms, ways to nurture and respond
- Placenta care – lotus birth, caring for the placenta, placenta recipes, ceremonies
- Breastfeeding- undisturbed breastfeeding, issues
- Nurturing care – food, touch, warmth, uterine massage, moxi, belly wrapping, herbal baths
- Creating community – Blessing ways, food trees, mother groups
- Weaving the birth story – how to sit with a mama in the postpartum and listen to her story, grieve with her, creating council, helping her digest her birth experience
Initiating Mothers into Natural and Holistic Parenting
- Creating your Breastfeeding Sacred Space
- Co-Sleeping
- Baby wearing and Attachment Parenting
- Mothering With Soul
The Business of Doula
- Marketing your business
- Internet marketing, building website, networking, cross marketing with other holistic businesses, community hub
- Being nurtured – doula self care
- Conflict resolution – mediation – communication
- You will receive: Business package which includes – resources, articles, links, client forms, a certification process
Certification process Steps
Step One
- Register with earthmother for the up and coming Advanced Doula Training Course
- Must attend all classes before certification can be granted
- Full payment must be completed before certification can be granted
Step two
- Read the recommended readings & websites that have been listed
- Submit 2 completed book essays
- Submit 1 essay on a topic of your choice: Why you want to be a doula, The politics of Birth, Sacred Birthing and what that really means, Your vision of a better birthing society, The importance of honoring birth as a sexual experience, Birth and Abuse, The birth wound and what that means, What does it mean to nurture, or an approved topic of your choice.
Step Three
- Must attend 3 births (preferably one home and one hospital) and write your story and experience: what you learned, what you witnessed, what you would do differently, what you would do again, how the parents felt, and your observations regarding the kind of care the family received.
- Find local resources that support natural and holistic birthing and parenting so you can use as referrals.
- Attend a breastfeeding conference or a la leche league meeting
- Start a blog or connect with a community forum with other holistic doulas and birth attendants
Step Four
Receive your certificate (with 80+ hrs of classroom time ) as an Advanced Holistic Doula
Cost of program: $799
(May be paid in monthly installments over a four-eigth month time period)
