In Affiliation with Bay Area Maternity & Women's Health
I will forever be grateful for your patience and your willingness to give your students all the knowledge you have acquired in the field of birth support. My classmates have made a huge impact on me and on my completion of the training...I'm so glad that becoming a doula is part of the reason for me to keep going!
— Desola Amos, Session of April 2020
We have continued to lead the training During COVID-19, using the Zoom platform for the contact hours. The April-June session turned out to be a successful session! We provide contact hours through six Zoom group sessions, lasting 3 hours each. The remaining 7 contact hours, out of the 25 hours planned, will take place in the near future, when hands-on practice and group gathering will be possible. Due to social distancing, this remains the structure of the October session. Additionally, our program uniquely teaches you a set of verbal coaching strategies with which you can provide a series of prenatal sessions - establish relationships, practice labor support tools and prepare your clients for their birth experience. Your contribution is extremely valuable even when it is online!
Aspiring doulas might think that current restrictions on doulas' presence in hospitals and social distancing make the doula service impossible to provide. This notion is understandable due to the emphasis put for many years on doulas' continuous presence and support during childbirth. However, it couldn't be farther from the truth! Doulas are 'emotional first responders', trained to "rescue" those who are in fear, doubt, and pain, and preparing for birth during COVID-19 can be even more overwhelming than it is in peaceful times.
Full house: doula students and BAM midwives came together on Zoom
APPROACH
Upon registration, we will grant you access to our membership website for a period of 6 months (Additional 2 months extension is granted for no cost). The 15 classes are audiovisual presentations covering different topics. Here is the full class list: (For classes full description click HERE
Our welcoming classroom is located at Verde Touch Spa in Los Altos. The program includes 5 Saturday group meetings lasting five hours each, from 11:45 am to 5:00 pm. (25 contact hours total). Sessions take place on Saturdays. During these group sessions, you can expect to:
Bay Area Doula Training is proud to be the only program providing doula students with the opportunity to receive practical hours, working side by side with midwives and nurses.
In order to provide this opportunity for our students, and in order to achieve the highest level of education, we established collaboration with Bay Area Maternity (BAM) practice, led by midwife Lin Lee. Practical hours will take place at El-Camino Los Gatos L&D, where the nurses LOVE working with our students.
Our students are invited to attend the Tea with The midwives monthly event, and an additional special monthly meeting with BAM expectant patients who are interested in doula-in-training support, The monthly meetings are held on the third and last Sundays of the month. Students who reside on the outskirts of the Bay Area will get our full support to find their first no-cost clients for their practical hours.
Neri Life-Choma, MA, is a mother, veteran childbirth educator, birth doula, and doula trainer, and the founder of Birth Coach Method- CEP by the California Board of Registered Nursing since 2017. For the last 22 years, Life-Choma has worked with individuals and couples as they prepared for the transformation of giving birth and becoming parents. During these years Life-Choma directed and managed the programs of two birth resource centers- Mama Center in Tel-Aviv Israel, and Blossom Birth in Palo Alto, CA with great results in the community reach out and creating change in maternal care. Her work with parents has been enriched by continuing her education and becoming a transformational life coach, hypnotherapist, and NLP practitioner. Life-Choma integrates principles and strategies of all these modalities of care into birth support in her book The Art of Coaching for Childbirth, which has been sold on Amazon with rave reviews. For more, visit BirthCoachMethod.com
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