A Doula Training Workshop is being offered at Danbury Birth Center in Danbury CT on June 22 and 23, 2001. The workshop hours are Friday from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. The cost is $350 or $325 if you pay 20 days in advance. This price includes a comprehensive workbook and dinner on Friday evening. Lunch on Saturday will be your responsibility, often time we order out or go out to a local restaurant, or you may bring your lunch. This workshop counts as one of the components for certification through Doulas of North America. We cover the other requirements in the workshop. The workshop teaches participants how to identify and work with the emotional needs of a laboring woman. This includes exploring the long-term implications of the birth experience. You will also learn various comfort measures including touch, heat and cold, position and massage to help the labor proceed normally. Finding clients working with them in the prenatal and postpartum time will also be covered. We will discuss difficult births as well as cesarean sections and unexpected outcomes. Marketing and promotion of doula work and/or your own business will be included. Much of the workshop is hands-on. Before you leave, you will have demonstrated a working knowledge of serving laboring women and their families.

It is helpful to come to the workshop with a working knowledge of birth. This can be accomplished by being a midwife, labor and delivery nurse, childbirth educator or by attending a full series (at least 12 hours) of childbirth education at a time when you are not pregnant. If you can not meet these criteria before the workshop, I suggest you read a good book on pregnancy and labor such as The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth by Sheila Kitzinger or Penny Simkin's book called Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Newborn. The more birth knowledge you bring with you to class, the easier it is to understand how to apply the doula skills you will learn. If you would like a brochure, please let us know your postal address and we will be happy to send you one.

Debbie Young, CD-DONA, ICCE, Doula Trainer, MOM
244 S. Walnut St.
West Union, IA 52175
1-800-648-3662
theyoungs@trxinc.com
http://welcome.to/mothercare
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