Course Description
Becoming a Birth Doula
Becoming a Birth Doula is a course run by Alison, Galway. It is a Online Learning course with a duration of 1.5-3 hours. Becoming a Birth Doula gives a Course Qualification of CPD Certificate. For more information about Becoming a Birth Doula at Alison, please review the details below.
This free online course explains how a professional birth doula assists their clients before, during and after labour. Pregnancy and childbirth are overwhelming times for parents and they need all the care and support available to make birth a safe, healthy and fulfilling experience. A doula is a trained childbirth professional that can provide such support. In this course, we lay out the roles of a birth doula during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period to provide the training you require that improves both your medical and communication skills.
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| Training Provider | Alison |
| Course Location | Online Course |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Carear Path | In This Free Course, You Will Learn How To • Describe the roles of a birth doula • Identify the sexual and reproductive parts of the female anatomy • Explain how a woman/person becomes pregnant and how babies grow • Discuss the common symptoms of pregnancy and how to manage them • Define ‘body mass index’ (BMI) • Explain how to care for a pregnant woman/person during labour • Indicate how to screen newborn babies for disorders and how to care for them • Outline common maternal mental health disorders • Summarise how to support grieving parents as a birth doula • List the different methods of contraception • Identify the types and styles of communication |
| Course Code | 5163 |
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