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Childbirth Education Classes and Resources
A Tool Informed for Informed Birth Decisions in Vancouver B.R.A.I.N.
Learn how the B.R.A.I.N. decision-making tool helps Vancouver parents make confident birth choices. Discover how a birth or postpartum doula can guide you through pregnancy, labour, and postpartum decisions.
Why Prenatal Classes Are Essential for a Positive Birth Experience: Hormones
Discover how prenatal classes in Vancouver can help you understand birth hormones, reduce stress, make informed decisions, and prepare for labor, delivery, and early bonding with your baby.
How to Start Your Doula Business: A Step-by-Step Guide for New Birth Workers
Ready to become a doula? Learn how to start your doula business with confidence — from training and certification to marketing and finding clients.
How to Make a Living as a Doula: Building a Sustainable and Fulfilling Birth Business
Can you make a living as a doula? Absolutely. Learn how to build a sustainable, professional doula business with confidence, community, and heart.
Becoming a Doula: Turning Your Passion for Birth Into a Fulfilling Career
Learn how to become a doula, find the right doula training, and start your own doula business with confidence. Turn your passion for birth into a fulfilling career.
Finding a Postpartum Doula in the Lower Mainland
What do you need to know when you looking to hire a postpartum doula? We guide you through the process.
Buying a Birth Pool Setup for new Doulas
Jessica Medrea started her mentorship with Morag Hastings in 2021. She came in a fresh doula without very much experience and by the end...
Why Hire a Doula?
What a birth doula does and how they can help you during your birth. Vancouver has some of the best doulas in the world to support you durin
Vancouver Home Birth List
Having a home birth in Vancouver. Here is a list of things you will want at home. Bloom supports both home and hospital births.
Delayed Cord Clamping the Truth.
As a birth photographer and doula , in Vancouver B.C., I have documented and supported well over 400 families giving birth. Over the last...
Born at Home Vancouver Birth Story
Barto guarding the belly and the house. Their doula arrives. Their midwife arrives. Barto keeping watch. Just before they meet their...
Doula's Home Birth
It is pretty special when you get to photograph a fellow doula’s birth. What a beautiful relationship this family has and what a...
Born at Home Mom and Dad's Story
E. & R.’s Home Birth Story E: I woke up in the middle of the night on Wednesday with contractions about 10 mins apart. I tried to get...
Home Water Birth with Birth and Beyond
I was lucky to attend a birth this week with Natalie from Birth and Beyond, a midwifery clinic located in UBC. (Now Natalie is on Orange...
Third Boy Home Birth in Surrey
I love getting asked back to my clients second and third births. I wonder if I will be asked to attend a fourth sometime. This client,...
Home Water Birth with Sibling
It all started early on Canada Day 2015. My client texted me in the morning to let me know her pressure waves had started. She also...
10 Women Catching Their Own Babies
Women catching their own babies, what?!?! Are you nuts? That’s impossible. Let me show you it’s not. I was showing my girlfriend my...
The Mighty Placenta
In the womb the placenta feeds your baby and removes waste. During birth it becomes natures built in resuscitation device. It continues...
My Nest Birth on the Hospital Floor
I first experienced a handful of surges five days before my daughter was born. After a bloody show the next evening and a call to my...
Midwife Catching Her Own Baby.
Much of the end of pregnancy is spent wondering when and how labour will start, just waiting for that first contraction. When my blood...
Book a Childbirth Education Class
Discover childbirth education classes at Birth by Bloom. Access resources to support your journey into parenthood, available to families across the Lower Mainland.
All of our classes include a 1 hour feeding your baby class and Newborn Care sessions including education on newborn sleep, care, what to expect in the first 6 weeks with your new baby.
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