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What to Read When Expecting

Clients will ask for your advice and guidance on so many topics, including what books you recommend. Here are some excellent resources for clients as they go through pregnancy and prepare for the birth of their baby. Childbirth Without Fear: The Principles and...

Recommended Books For Doulas

As doulas, our clients expect us to be the experts. They put their trust in us to have the knowledge and experience in places where they don’t. Once you’ve completed Birth Beautifully’s extensive and thorough certification program, we encourage you to keep learning so...

Virtual Doula Service – How to Support Clients Virtually

The pandemic brought about change in all facets of life, transforming how most people do business and go about their day-to-day. For doulas, support for clients has shifted from in-person care to adapting to providing virtual care. Even with the pandemic slowly...

7 Tips for Teaching Childbirth Classes that are Actually Helpful

No amount of books, blogs, or videos can truly prepare someone for childbirth. This is why childbirth classes are so crucial for first time parents. The act of childbirth is often mysterious or even frightening for people who haven’t done it before. A good childbirth...

Overcoming Competition as a Doula

We love to think the birth community is full of support. Support for the birthing persons, their partners, and the providers themselves. However, depending on who you talk to, this isn’t always the case. In some cases, childbirth educators and doulas have become...

Using Social Media to Stay Relevant as a Doula

For so many people in the world, social media is just a regular part of your daily life. It's incredibly rare to meet someone that doesn't have an Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and the list goes on. For many who run a business, social media is how they market their...

4 Ways to Build Your Confidence as a Doula

Are you brand-new and just starting to learn the doula business? Or are you a seasoned professional encountering a dreaded client drought? Either way, your confidence may falter every now and again. Don’t sweat it when this happens. While your certainty may ebb and...

How Doulas Can Support Plus-Size Pregnancies

Pregnancy is an exciting time for many parents, and yet, it is also one where they feel the most vulnerable. There is no set standard for how a pregnant belly should look aside from what is viewed in the media. Plus-size bodies can have just as healthy an experience...

Working as a Doula: 4 Common Questions

Are you interested in becoming a doula but aren’t sure where to start? We’ve compiled the most common questions that people have before they’ve sought doula training. Read below to find out more. 1. How much do you get paid? The answer depends on you. Doulas don’t...

Improve Email Marketing for your Doula Business with Flodesk

Marketing is often a pain point for Doula business owners. Luckily, Flodesk will revolutionize your email marketing game, making it simple and easy to reap the benefits that a strong email marketing strategy has to offer. How Does Email Marketing Help your Doula...

How the Placenta is Used for Medicinal Purposes

The placenta has been used for its medicinal purposes for hundreds of years. Recently, placentophagy, the act of consuming the placenta, typically in pill form, has gained popularity for its benefits in dealing with postpartum healing and depression. However, the...

How Can I Offer More as a Doula?

Are you a doula interested in expanding your business and offering more services? Some doulas feel limited to helping at births. However, doulas can become certified in other related fields. Read on to learn about the other services you may consider offering and why...

5 Reasons to Teach a Childbirth Class

Doulas are traditionally pregnant parents' advocates and support throughout the entire pregnancy and beyond. They help provide some education and help to answer the many questions parents have as they work through the many complexities pregnancy can bring. Many...

Recent Study Finds No Increased Risk of Safety for Water Births

A person’s birth experience comes with a wide variety of options. Water births are becoming increasingly popular as they help deliver a more relaxing way to go through labor and delivery. They have been known to offer pain relief, lessen the stress that can come with...

How to Support Your Client’s VBAC

The way their birth unfolds will stay with your client forever. It will be a memory imprinted on their hearts and minds always, and it can influence and impact them emotionally and physically in large and small ways. For many of our clients, a cesarean birth is good...

In-Depth on Doula Partnerships

We’ve talked about doula partnerships before, but today we want to go into more depth on this topic. There are so many positive reasons to create a business partnership, and there are lots of details to work out as you begin this type of relationship. How to find the...

Mental Health Check-in for Doulas

As doulas, we give our all for our clients. We care for them, we are empathetic, and we hold space for them emotionally. We support them physically for hours during labor. While we are not responsible for outcomes, we feel a deep responsibility to help them have the...

How Many Birth Clients Should I Take Each Month?

As a Certified Birth Beautifully Birth Doula, clients will be reassured to have you as their guide for pregnancy, labor and birth, and postpartum. Because our training also teaches you how to grow your business, you might wonder about how many clients you should take...

What Happens When You Work for Free

Years ago when I was first training as a doula, some very large, well-known certifying organizations encouraged us to take clients for free. We were told to “get experience” by taking on clients and not getting paid. Hours and hours of prenatal appointments, calls,...

Doulas and Inductions

Sometimes an induction is necessary, and other times clients may choose it. It’s important to provide information about inductions in your prenatal appointments, even if your client is strongly against having one, because there are circumstances that can present and...