Postpartum Doulas

What an amazing weekend! I returned home from the most wonderful experience of training new postpartum doulas, spending 2 1/2 days learning, growing and sharing with a group of experienced mothers who felt the calling to support new mothers. To gather with like-minded women twice in one month to teach them how to support mothers through doula care has been such an enriching and rewarding experience for me.

Though I love and miss the one-on-one support of providing doula support to pregnant and new mothers, I absolutely love the experience of training new doulas and providing continuing education for experienced doulas. Having successfully fine-tuned my postpartum doula workshop this weekend (after several improvements I had added since my last workshop), it was so exciting to see how smoothly it all went, time wise and education wise. With each improvement I can see the increased retention of the students and the increased excitement about the career they are to embark on.

Now my focus switches to the continuing education programs I am developing, especially the body awareness workshop that I am doing some great changes too. I am also very excited about a possible sponsorship of a five-day training workshop that I hope to sponsor next May. I can barely contain myself with the excitement of this prospect for new and practicing birth professionals as the information that will be presented at this workshop are dear to my heart... but I won't divulge more until we have worked out the details.