About Catholic Doula Program©

 Welcome to Catholic Doula Program©
Mission Statement:  To provide a Christian/Catholic based doula training program based on the 7 Gifts of the Holy Ghost and Faithful to the Teachings of the Catholic Magisterium. All religions are welcome. We provide training to doulas in physical, comfort, and spiritual techniques to help mothers have a great and blessed pregnancy! We are totally 100% pro-life. Learn about all our doula courses on this new page click here. Our childbirth preparation course for parents is here (St. Gianna Childbirth Prep) and new St. Anne Breastfeeding for parents is also here. 

What's a Doula? "Doula" means "servant" in Greek. A doula is a labor support person who helps mothers through pregnancy, labor and postpartum. See this video to get more of an idea on what doulas do: outside link video
FAQ:
​What makes your program unique?


Our program is significantly more spiritual based; we focus on the 7 Gifts of the Holy Ghost as part of our main course section and we offer specialized spiritual based training with saints of each module, etc. We also include in our self-pace course a full separate Royal Rebozoway course. The Fast-Track now incorporates rebozo skills inside each module to make is more simplified.

What about the money part?
​Many doulas can support themselves on a doula salary; others will do doula work as a secondary job; it depends on what your personal goals are for helping mothers with birth. Also, you may want to talk to doulas in your area and see how well they are doing. It does take some time to establish any independent business. We also recommend to our doulas to look up "Inspired Birth Pro" and 100 Percent Doula websites in order to gain more business ideas and options. We also include a small business course.
Potential for each birth ranges from $500-$1000 a birth and if you take 4 births a month--multiply. Some doulas do less births a month. You can also offer postpartum doula services as an option for mothers after birth.
Bereavement doulas usually offer services for "pro-bono"/free.
We have a Catholic Postpartum Program© course info here. Postpartum doulas range from around $20-$25 an hour and up depending on what area of the country you serve.

I feel called to be a doula; but is this a certification program? Do I receive a certification when finished? 

Yes, you will be a Certified Catholic Doula© when finished with our program. We have several graduates now. We are NOT part of DONA or CAPPA as their requirements are slightly different and DONA.org is a workshop only program. We at Catholic Doula Program are mostly an online program; but we are starting to do workshops. If you want a real live workshop in your area; please contact us.  We do encourage our doulas to obtain more than one certification. If you are already certified doula, please contact us for an automatic discount when enrolling . 

Rebozos:   We will mail out rebozos  within  2-3 weeks because we usually order our rebozos from various sellers. If you want one specifically from Mexico it can take up to a month or longer to get to USA.  I also make rebozos and if you prefer to have me make you one it will be around 2 week turn around to you. (Mine do not have any  hanging  tassels from them -- they are just simple woven fabric rebozo).  Color choices will be honored as much as we can do so. Thank you. 

What's the History of Catholic Doula Program©? Do you have graduates? How many students are in your current program?

The history of Catholic Doula Program goes back to around 2013 actually; we had thought of the program and tested some of it on a few friends. We decided to wait to make it a full doula program until March 1, 2014 when we had our first enrollment in our program. We have gone through some revisions now and we are grateful for Lina Martin to help us with the first beginnings of this program. We have about a dozen grads now!  We currently have around 30 plus students in our online program.

See Team Members info below


So, what's in a module?--please ask for free sample! Do I have to attend births? What are the certification requirements (see steps for certification-birth doula)? Please see Birth Doula Page for more information!

Policies information -- please scroll to bottom of page to see our policies info. Thank you so much. :)

We are currently seeking BOARD members for our Bettering Lives of Outstanding Moms program and leaders for this program; so you don't have to be a doula to lead support groups; please email us to learn more about this opportunity. Website is also at www.momsofbloom.com -- we are moving all information about B.L.O.O.M. to this website in order to not tie down these pages so much.

Payment Plan students:​ We have a new policy that you need to pay half up front unless you are agreeing to use our subscribe/auto payment buttons. We will make exceptions for students who wish to enroll in multiple courses with minimum of around $200 down; however, if you do enroll in 3 courses -- and decide to drop out of one or two; we have a right to charge full price for remainder of course and charge a drop out fee for any course. Please email us for more details on drop out fees can vary from $25-$50. Thank you. 
We value payment plan students -- we just also have an agreement form -- we usually ask for Half down first month; second month can be a smaller amount from $50-$100; third month as above, etc. We will work with your budget on the rest of the payments as needed. We will have you sign an agreement form for specifically to your pay dates; but we usually prefer 30 day in between payments -- but we can be flexible up to 45 days as needed for PayPal transfers. Please ask for payment plan form if enrolling in a course this way. Thank you. 

Prayer to Infant Prague:
INFANT OF PRAGUE NOVENA PRAYER   O Jesus, Who has said, "Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened," through the intercession of Mary, Your Most Holy Mother, I knock, I seek, I ask that my prayer be granted.
(Make your request)
O Jesus, Who has said, "All that you ask of the Father in My Name, He will grant you," through the intercession of Mary Your Most Holy Mother, I humbly and urgently ask your Father in your name that my prayer will be granted.
(Make your request)
O Jesus, Who has said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away but My word shall not pass away," through the intercession of Mary Your Most Holy Mother, I feel confident that my prayer will be granted.
(Make your request) PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
Divine Infant Jesus, I know You love me and would never leave me. I thank You for Your close Presence in my life. Miraculous Infant, I believe in Your promise of peace, blessings, and freedom from want. I place every need and care in Your hands. Lord Jesus, may I always trust in Your generous mercy and love. I want to honor and praise You, now and forever. Amen
Christy Doulamom
Main Helper Board member
About to become a certified doula with our program!
Julie Larsen (CD, Madriella, Hypnobabies Hypno-Doula)
Owner of Catholic Doula
Traditional Catholic Doula and Mother