The Workshop

This two-day training will be in the form of a participative workshop with a lot of hands-on practice. The following topics will be covered:

•           the significance of labor on a woman’s life
• the role and impact of a doula
•  physical comfort measures to assist a woman during the different stages of labor
•  emotions of labor and doula support
•  the role of the doula in medicated labors, VBAC, and cesarean births
•  rehearsing difficult labor situations
• prenatal and postpartum contact with the client
•  the doula and the partner
•  the newborn and breastfeeding
•    running a doula business
•  the DONA certification process

Objectives

At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• describe the long term psychological impact of birth on women
• describe the varying roles of the labor support person
• describe the  emotional needs of the laboring woman in both normal and difficult   labors
• demonstrate different comfort measures for labor
• list ideas for managing practical matters when running a doula business

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