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Your Doula Coach exists to empower and support doulas to provide quality, compassionate, and professional evidence-based care while building a profitable business.
Why Your Doula Coach?
We are passionate about educating doulas to support women and families based on the following principles:
1. Evidence Based Education
Our goal is to ensure that we are focused on evidence based practices. It is our job, as doulas, to ensure our clients know all their options for their pregnancy and birth experience. We need to make sure they are able to make informed and empowered decisions based on up to date data, statistics, and evidence. It is vital that doulas are trained on these up to date practices in order to communicate and educate their clients.
2. Empathetic and Compassionate Support
Alongside empowering our families with evidence and education. We need to learn to carry empathy and compassion. We are here to walk this journey with them. Whether they follow the evidence or not, our job is to provide non-biased, non-judgemental support. We must learn how to carry empathy and compassion while our families make decisions.
3. Practical Skills Development
It would be a disservice to you and to the clients if you walk in the room without confidence in how to practically provide support for all types of birth scenarios. Whether it is an unmedicated physiological birth, VBAC, induction, epidural birth or other scenario, it is imperative that you know ways to provide quality and optimal skills to minimize birth trauma and maximize an empowering experience.
What will I learn?
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evidence based care & the evidence practice gap
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routine vs. evidence based birth
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different birth models, environments and providers
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power heirarchy, power systems and consent
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basic terminology, biology, and physiology of the labor process
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stages of labor
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biomechanics of the pelvis
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optimizing fetal presentation and station
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pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain management
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mental and emotional support strategies
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in depth understanding of medical interventions
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cesarean birth support
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basic newborn preferences education
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basic breastfeeding education
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understanding doula roles
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risk assessments & understanding data in childbirth statistics
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navigating medical based and elective inductions
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navigating unexpected circumstances in birth
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case studies and practical application
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doula business development
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and more...
what does our support look like?
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Doula Training & Certification Program
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1-on-1 Coaching & Business Mentorship
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Documentation: Templates & Protocols
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24/7 Support from Your Doula Coach
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Community with other YDC Doulas