Your Doula Course Menu - Components to your birth doula course...

Module One - Intro to Doula Work 
✔Evidenced-Based information about birth doulas
✔Gift of Fear of the Lord - "Letting go of Fears" Exercise
​✔Timeline of Childbirth History assignment
​✔Start your 10-20 resource list with our first Case Study "Philomena".  
✔  Supportive  of the Family: we do not use inclusive language - we call mother "mother", etc. 
Module 2: Emotions and Spirituality of Doula Work
✔ Spiritual Support: Spirituality of doula work
✔ Prayerful Support: Prayerful aids of doula work
​✔Love Languages and how this can help your doula work
​✔ Emotions and how they can affect the laboring stages of the mother
Module 3: Nutritional doula, ABC's of Doula, Communication
✔How nutrition is important for mothers plus Food diary assignment
✔ABC's of being a good birth partner (doula)
✔Fulfills Michigan requirement on Communication, Professional communication and cross-cultural communication - we have a cultural project included in this module
​MODULE 4: FORTITUDE, SUFFERING, STAGES OF LABOR
✔ Comfort in Birth Method - we use this book throughout our course.
✔ Understand the stages of labor.
✔ Understand the signs of pregnancy. 
✔ Understand the signs of labor.
✔ How to help with relaxation, rhythm and ritual (the 3 R's) for laboring moms
Bonus Section: Healing Arts 
✔ Healing Arts Part one: Learn 10 healing arts techniques from acupressure to water birth.
✔ Healing Arts Part two: Learn about Rebozo Techniques.
✔ Healing Arts part three: Aromatherapy and herbs info. 
✔ Healing Arts part four - self-care for the mother (fulfills Michigan requirements) and unassisted birthing. 
✔   Rebozo Mexican Shawl techniques
module 5:  birth pLanning and more
✔ Learn various labor positions
✔ Learn labor anatomy and turn in labeling assignments
✔ Practice comfort measures on a friend or pregnant mother
​✔ Interview 3 mothers about birth (certification requirement)
✔ Create a birth plan (can count towards community project skills certification) 
Module 6: Challenges of Labor; medical side of Birth Part  
✔ Discuss challenges of labor
✔ Emergency birth
✔ Epidurals and Medical side of birth
✔ Inductions and types of inductions
✔ "Natural induction"
✔    Informed consent and BRAIN 
✔ Business 101 information
Module 7: From Hospital to HoMe - Baby procedures to postpartum
✔ Baby procedures at hospital and care for baby
✔ What you can do postpartum as a birth doula
✔ Read a breastfeeding book or take M.O.M. Advocacy class for breastfeeding requirement
✔ Learn about what to do at prenatals. 
✔ Checklist to help you finish

Doula Timeline assignment examples: 

Picture
Sorry this one is hard to read - but I loved the visualization of colors and it has great work on it. by Jamie Dibble

Vision Board Assignment Example: 

Books you need for our class:

Required Books for Birth Doula

Required books for self-pace or fast-track: 

1.  The Comfort in Birth Method - Third Edition (or 2nd edition) by Julie Larsen
2.  Book Reviews:  4 book reviews:  A. Prolife Book,  B. Spiritual/General Pregnancy C. Challenge of Pregnancy. D. Breastfeeding book. 
3. Optional: The Birth Partner by Penny Simkin 
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