This book is a beautiful take on nourishing the whole parent, with a focus on nutrition and supporting the body and spirit through this transition into parenthood with food, teas and herbs. Have fun exploring it and reflecting on how you find this information may be integrated into your work as a postpartum doula. 

This is a beautiful book with a wealth of knowledge that you can draw from as you define what your postpartum doula practice will look like. The premise of this book is that there is a fourth trimester - a three month period after a baby is born in which a parent and baby are still evolving and transitioning. We will explore this book, it's limitations, and grow as postpartum doulas.

This book provides lots of great ways for you to help parents better understand their babies, for you to engage with them, and for you to be a wealth of knowledge for parents. 

Postpartum doulas are certainly not perinatal mental health experts (unless you are!), but we are in a position to truly be world changers here. Doulas - birth and postpartum - are often the only providers involved in an individuals perinatal experience who enter their home and build a relationship that is not contingent upon any aspect of their process, other than becoming parents. By understanding some basics of perinatal mental health, you may recognize changes or warning signs in your clients. You can be a bridge to further care. And that can mean a world of difference!

What is infant attachment, attachment styles, and why do they matter? In this session we will work through these ideas and how you as a doula and support secure infant attachment. 

Sleep: 

The resources in this section will help you to have a better understanding of infant development and how we can help our clients get a little more needed sleep. Sleep will help our clients heal physically and emotionally, and be better able to care for their babies. 

Let's explore some of the pressures new parents feel.  They are told if they have the right accessory, the right pacifier, the right bouncer, the right sleeper, hold their babies enough, keep them upright long enough, perfect the balance of tummy time and naps, feed their baby perfectly . . . . their babies won't cry and will grow up to be perfect little humans - heroes and superstars. Here we will dive into some of our ideas about parenting and crying, do some myth debunking, and checkout what we really know. 

This is a breast/chest feeding course designed to help expecting parents feed their babies. You'll learn a lot about feeding and we'll discuss how to support parents with what you have learned at training. 

Whether you are launching a practice focused on postpartum doula services, or adding to your existing doula practice, this session will have you ready to discuss your entrepreneurship at our training workshop. You'll leave the workshop ready to successfully run your business.

You're nearly ready to join us at training.  Just a few loose ends to tidy up!