Postpartum Doula Training

postpartum doula supporting client with babywearing
A postpartum doula training rooted in traditional healing & embodied support.

No previous experience necessary!

Our Foundations Postpartum Doula Training is all you need to initiate your career supporting families through the postpartum adjustment and newborn phase.

Includes:

+16 hours of in-person or virtual instruction
+Comprehensive guide book to read ahead of class and keep in your doula bag for years to come
+1 year of EDT membership
+Certification Packet (once completed: lifetime certification)

Cost of Training: $750*

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*Already a member? Use coupon code “membersonly” at checkout. Cross training? Use “crosstrain” code at checkout. Discounts cannot be combined.

EDT is committed to changing the way doulas are trained and certified.

We feel the time is now to let go of the old doula education paradigm and usher in the training and mentorship that the next generation of doulas deserves.

Therefore, we have centered our postpartum doula training on the topics and techniques that the doulas of today need, all with the goal of better supporting new parents as they adjust to life after birth and establish the foundation of their family.

In this training, you’ll leave confident in knowing:

+who you are as a doula (who your clients are, what your biases are, what your strengths and gifts are)
+the history and cultural context of traditional postpartum support, global postpartum care traditions, and biologically-based newborn care approaches
+how to advocate for your clients and their babies, especially in light of covid-19
+the Embodied Method of doula work (which includes understanding the inner landscape of the postpartum period, our human animality, the nervous system, and sexuality)
+the typical course of postpartum healing and ways to offer comfort and support
+the inner landscape of the postpartum parent: mental health, identity, relationships
+how to support your clients as they step into their role as parents
+how to help your client’s understand their new baby (appearance, health considerations, behaviors, innate needs and responses, sleep, etc., all from a biological, evolutionary standpoint)
+how to start your business and find clients
+so much more!

If all of this makes you feel energized and ready to be an EDT doula, click below to reserve your spot in one of our online or in person trainings! 

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Included in tuition is your certification packet. In this packet, we have forms and exercises you will complete to receive your lifetime certification. The packet will be sent the week after your training takes place. See below for requirements.

Brand New Doula

+Attend our Foundations Postpartum Doula training
+Document work with 3 postpartum clients
+Submit your client contract or proof of liability insurance
+Read and respond to reading list books/articles
+Create a resource list
+Give your thoughts on two client scenarios (written or recorded)
+Complete a business plan
+Submit 3 client experience surveys
+Attend 2 of the following classes/observation options (baby care, bodyfeeding, parenting, perinatal mental health, Pelvic Floor PT)
+Schedule your certification review meeting with an EDT leader
+Once submitted and reviewed, receive your lifetime certification!

Cross Training/Retraining

+Attend our Foundations Birth Doula training
+Document work with 1 client you supported prior to training, and 2 clients after training
+Submit your client contract or proof of liability insurance
+Read and respond to reading list books/articles
+Give your thoughts on two client scenarios (written or recorded)
+Submit 3 client experience surveys (1 can be from client before training)
+Schedule your certification review meeting with an EDT leader
+Once submitted and reviewed, receive your lifetime certification!