The Black Doula Training

Hospitals are the most common place of birth in the United States, with 98.4 percent of births taking place in a hospital in 2019. Most Maternity hospitals have access to high quality innovative technology that helps with assessing overall health during prenatal care, labor, delivery, and postpartum.

Maternity Nurses, OB Technicians, and OB Providers play an important role when it comes to labor and delivery. They are trained on how to best provide care, monitor vital signs, assist during delivery and monitor the progress of labor but they lack knowledge about physiological birth because of access to medical interventions such as Inductions & C-sections. 

OB Professionals can benefit from doula training by gaining an understanding of physiological birth, knowing how to adequately provide support to people in labor with or without an epidural while decreasing the amount of time spent in the operating room performing c-sections that can be avoided with an enhanced set of skills.