Yoga Instructor

Teach Yoga and create healing energy for the student doula, incorporating music, movement and meditation. The students will have questions and answer. Teach the benefits of increasing energy, massaging internal organs, and using breath and sound through various yoga techniques.

Breastfeeding

Proper latch-on techniques will be demonstrated, the effects of bottle-feeding, the health benefits of breastfeeding for both mother and baby. Review breastfeeding basics and barriers, anatomy and physiology, position and latch, the importance of relationship-building breastfeeding within the first three days, 1st hour after birth, the role of the birth doula, continuation, how breastfeeding evolves In the early weeks, the role of the postpartum doula, common breastfeeding challenges, role of the postpartum doulas, resources for mom and family and how the SMC Full Circle Doula is both the birth and postpartum doula regarding initial breastfeeding support and/or introduction. Allow time for question and answer.

Labor, Birth and Postpartum

Help prepare trainees by teaching, reviewing, and implementing Skills for Stalled & Hard Labors; Preparing for Home, Birthing Center and Hospital Birth, Working with Hospital Staff & Home Birth Midwives, Advocating Using the Birth, Vision/Birth Plan, Avoiding Fetal Distress and Birth Trauma, Caesarean Births & VBACS, Helping Family Welcome the New Baby, Placenta Delivery & Rituals and more using hands-on, lecture and group participatory methods.

Healthy Preconception and Pregnancy Segment

Help prepare trainees by teaching and reviewing Signs of Pregnancy, Common Discomforts of Pregnancy, and Comfort Measures using hands-on, lecture, and/or group participatory methods.