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Course Description
The Simkin Center Postpartum Doula Training is a 4-day course. The curriculum includes:
- The role of the doula in supporting breastfeeding
- Bottle feeding safety and techniques
- Nurturing families with more than one infant
- New mother care
- New baby care
- Listening and communication skills
- Integrating the birth experience
- The emotional transition of the new family
- Ethical conduct of postpartum doulas
- Business aspects of a doula practice
- Prenatal contact
- Postpartum mood disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder
- Comforting touch for new mothers
- Case scenarios - the doula's role
- Comfort and care for new babies
- Community resources
PREREQUISITES: If you wish to become DONA International-certified as a postpartum doula, you will need to complete a few prerequisites before taking the class. PDF of DONA prerequisites
FACULTY: Two DONA-approved postpartum doula trainers (see Simkin Center Faculty) lead each Postpartum Doula Training.