In this very intensive four day workshop, you will gain all of the knowledge and tools needed to begin practicing as a labor doula.

Topics covered, but not limited to are:

• Sound and ethical business practices
• Marketing, money, and gaining clientele
• Anatomy and physiology of labor and birth
• Birth psychology – mom, partner, and baby
• Pelvis and baby positioning
• Midwifery vs. technocratic models of care and navigating both modalities
• Interventions and complications and the doula’s role
• Informed consent and advocacy
• Repairing breaks in bonding
• Knowing the ins and outs of the hospital
• What to pack in your doula bag
• Doula tricks – Emotional, physical, and informational support – hands on practice
• Role play, videos, group exercises
• Burnout prevention
• Continued mentoring after class is over
• Certification offered after requirements are fulfilled

In this very intensive weekend long workshop, you will gain all of the tools and knowledge needed to being your practice as a CPpD (Certified Postpartum Doula)

Topics covered, but not limited to are:

• Four hour lactation support for doulas training, taught by Charity Pitcher-Cooper, IBCLC
• Scope of practice
• Postpartum nutrition
• Normal and abnormal physical and emotional postpartum issues for mom and baby and how the doula can help
• Natural remedies for common issues
• Baby soothing techniques
• Newborn care
• Postpartum depression
• Postpartum hormones – physiology of and what to expect
• Working with multiples
• Day and night doula duties
• Workshop comes with certification

This three hour workshop is a certification requirement for all Cornerstone Doulas and essential to any doula who plans to attend births at home.

This workshop is instructed by Juli Tilsner, LM – Homebirth Midwife

Topics covered:

• Differences in labor management techniques at home and in the hospital
• Midwives’ expectations
• Homebirth specific tricks and tools
• Communication with the birth team

This absolutely essential eight hour advanced workshop is a MUST for all Doulas!

Topics covered:

• How to counsel your clients prenatally about Optimal Fetal Positioning
• How to line up the baby in the optimal position prenatally to prevent complications in labor
• Understaning fetal lie and presentations
• Posterior, asynclitic, breech, and transverse presentations – how to remedy prenatally and in all stages of labor
• Leopold’s Maneuver – how to feel the baby’s position from the outside of the belly – With LIVE pregnant models!
• Much, much more!

In this very in depth, eight hour workshop we cover the myths and realities as well as risks and benefits of most standardized testing in pregnancy.

Topics covered, but not limited to are:

• GBS
• Ultrasound
• GD
• Antenatal Testing
• Genetics Testing, and much more.