A doula, also known as a Labor Coach or Professional Labor Assistant, a birth doula is a woman who provides information and non-medical and /or emotional support to women and their families during pregnancy and Labor. She has an understanding of the emotional and spiritual needs of pregnant women as well as natural means of pain control. She has learned relaxation techniques which will facilitate the labor process.
The Post-partum doula, night nurse or night nanny, provides help to the new family during the crucial adjustment period after the infant’s birth. She helps during the day, providing information and assistance with breast feeding and other newborn care issues. She also runs errands and may prepare meals, duties which free the new mother to focus solely on her newborn. She provides support for mothers recovering from a cesarean section. And provides an extra pair of hands for the mother of twins!
This course will provide you with the basic, intermediate & advanced, skills needed to provide competent support and education to pregnant, birthing & nursing women and their families!
On-going sessions. Please call 510-827-9160 or 510-595-5534
for admission information.
Begin when you feel ready!
Cost 1200.00
Payment plans, credit cards accepted!
Do not let financial concerns keep you fro taking class – talk to Samsarah!
Saturdays, 11am – 3:00pm
http://www.theprofessionaldoula.com
Upon completion the participant will receive the following certifications:
- Birth & Post-partum Caregiver (Doula)
- Lactation Educator
- CPR and First Aid
- Labor Consultant
- Childbirth Activist
- Natural Family Planning Educator
Addition certifications (and for an additional fee)
Child Birth Educator. 250.00 Nutrition Doula Training 400.00
This training is a perfect first step for those considering work as a Doula, Childbirth Educator, Pastoral Labor Counselor or Labor Coach, as well as those considering further training as a midwife!
Your instructor:
Dr. L. Samsarah Morgan, is a Birth and Post Partum Doula, counselor and child birth educator. Dr.. Morgan is the director the Nia Healing Center as well as the director of Birth Professionals of the Bay Area , a training center for Birth Doulas, Childbirth Educators, Post Partum Care Providers, and Birth Activists.
She has served the families & children of the East Bay as a Doula for 23 years and has trained doulas for the last 14 years! She is the mother of 5 sons and a grandmother of a 8 year old Granddaughter, and a two year old grandson!
Dr. Morgan is proud to announce that she has begun an midwifery apprenticeship with Midwife Selena Green LM CPM , of the Sacred Birth Place in Oakland, California.
Application
Yes! I would like to attend, The Professional Doula, Birth and Postpartum Doula Certification program.
I will begin on: ________________________________ (enter date).
I have attended an orientation on: _____________________________ (enter date).
I am aware that this training costs 550.00. I have either enclosed 550.00 with this form or I have enclosed a deposit in the amount of ____ (minimum deposit 100.00) I am aware that deposits and future payments are non-refundable. A deposit or full payment is due within 3 weeks of my attendance of an orientation unless a payment arrangement is in force).
I am also aware that only if I change my mind within 3 days of making my first deposit that this is the only circumstance which allows me to have a return of my deposit or other payments made. I must give notice of my change of heart in writing within this timeframe.
Email: bayareabirthpros@aol.com.
Please contact the instructor to make further payment arrangements
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If you wish to pay by credit card, you can do so using Paypal. There is a 4% charge for this service.
Please make checks payable to L. Samsarah Morgan,
If mailing, send to: 370 45th St.
Oakland, CA 94609
(class will meet @ this address)
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Please bring with you, your answers to following questions
1. Why do I want to be a work with laboring women and their families?
2. What is my history with the birth experience?
(Including my own birth and those of my children)?
Jazmine Silver – 7 years old
Reading List – Most of these books are available through The Birth and Life Bookstore. 1(800)-443–9942
Pregnancy Book
Baby Book
Birth Book
Breastfeeding Book – All by Sears & Sears
The Birth Partner:
Everything You Need to know to Help a Woman Through Childbirth
-Penny Simkin
The American Way of Birth by Jessica Mitford
On Becoming a Counselor – Eugene Kennedy & Sara C. Charles, MD
Business Mastery 3 -Cherie M. Sohnen-Moe
The Essential Guide To Lesbian Conception, Pregnancy and Birth –
-Kim Toves and Stephanie Brill
Childbirth without Fear – Grantly Dick-Read
The Labor Progress Handbook – Penny Simkin & Ruth Ancheta
The Art of Crossing Cultures -Craig Storti
Parenting Begins Before Conception – Carista Luminare-Rosen, Phd.
The Tentative Pregnancy – Barbara Katz Rothman
Empty Arms – Sherokee Llse
Healing a Father’s Grief – William H. Schatz ISBN-0-934230-12-9
Medic Publishing Co. PO Box 89, Redmond, WA 98052
A Most Important Picture
A Very Tender Manual For Taking Pictures of Still born Babies and Infants Who Die
ISBN#1-56123-014-6
The Doula Book – Kennel& Klaus
Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Newborn:
The Complete Guide
– Simkin, Whaley & Keppler
Breastfeeding Answer Book -Mohrbacher & Stock
Nursing Mother’s Companion – Kathleen Huggins
Having Twins – Elizabeth Noble
Non- Violent Communication – Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Ina Mae’s Guide To Childbirth -Ina Mae Gaskin
Hearts and Hands – Elizabeth Noble
The New Midwfery -Edited by Farah M. Shroff
Attachment Parenting -Katie Allison Granju
New titles can be added to this list at any time.
Requirements for Doula certification:
1. Reading of all course materials and mandatory reading list.
Complete a five page report on each book.
2. Attend all 12 classes – not missing more that 2 classes
(unless special permission is given), be sure that you have covered all course topics.
3. All tuition must be paid in full.
4. Make yourself available to attend two births with supervision.
5. Make yourself available to provide at least 2 pro bono post partum care services.
6.Attend the following intensives CPR/first aid – Breastfeeding, Prenatal Testing, Pregnancy Massage, Postpartum Depression, Natural Family Planning
7. Provide proof of negative TB test.
8. Write a report on a issue concerning birth
and postpartum women. This paper will be presented before the class.
For Child Birth Educator Certification.
1. Attend at least 4 births.
2. Complete Doula Certification Requirements.
3. Create a weekend child birth education class.
4. Present this class before the public. ( to be arranged by your instructor)
5. The class will be attended and reviewed by your instructor.
6. Pay 250.00 certification fee.
7. Upon successful review of class – certification will be granted.
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