Home Birth Class for Doulas

Service Description

Are you a newer doula or someone who has supported mainly hospital births? Would you like to gain more insight and skills for supporting people to birth at home? Unsure about how to talk to your clients about choice of birth place? Join Jessica Medrea for a relaxed workshop that will give you more confidence as a home birth doula. We'll point you to the research on safety and outcomes, how to guide your clients to prepare themselves and their homes, handy practical skills like setting up and taking down a birth pool, and more. Plus provide a space for you to ask all those questions you've been wondering about! What You Will Learn: What home birth looks like in real life The role of the doula in a home birth setting How to support informed choice and prepare families Reasons for transfer and what to expect Practical setup, including birth pools and home environments Supporting clients through each stage of labour at home Creating a calm, grounded presence in an intimate setting Why This Matters Who This Is For New doulas wanting to build confidence Experienced doulas looking to deepen their skills Birth workers who want to better support clients choosing home birth About your Instructor Jessica is a Vancouver-based birth doula. Having supported over 200 births, she has supported families of all kinds through a wide range of situations. She has also taught childbirth education classes to hundreds of families as an instructor for Bloom. This experience shines through in her teaching, along with her unbridled enthusiasm for all things birth. Jessica's style is frank and direct while also being compassionate and she frequently receives positive reviews from Bloom students. Grounded in a human-rights based philosophy that centres on bodily autonomy and informed choice, she also believes that knowledge is power and the more realistic information people have the better they can make the choices that are right for them. Which is why birth doula work, prenatal education and doula education are so important to her. She's also very interested in policy and public health issues around perinatal medical systems, place of birth choices, access to midwifery care and more. Jessica is a mother of one, and a proud East Van community member. She has been with Bloom as a doula and instructor since 2021.