On-Demand and Self-Paced!

The BADT 12-week online Childbirth Educator Training provides doulas and educators with the knowledge and tools necessary to offer inclusive, trauma-informed, comprehensive, and evidence-based education to birthing people in their communities. This newly updated curriculum ensures you're learning from the most current materials and approaches in the field.

In addition to the foundational topics found in childbirth education, this course covers paths to conception, consent, trauma and boundaries, mental health and trauma, pregnancy/birth and disability, inclusive lactation and infant feeding, and grief and loss.

We aim to equip our educators with not just basic knowledge of pregnancy, labor, and birth, but a deep, inclusive understanding of all aspects and realities of birth and birthing people.

The course includes updated resources and information tailored to both Canadian and U.S. contexts, with a flexible framework that is meaningful and applicable even if you work outside these regions.

Closed captions in English are provided. For additional accommodation requests, email [email protected].

Course curriculum

    1. Learning with BADT

    2. Cultural Expectations

    3. About this training

    4. Certification Requirements

    5. Book List and Book Report Info

    6. DOWNLOAD: CBE Student Welcome Package

    7. Uploading and Submitting Your Assignment

    8. Click here about tech support with Thinkific...

    9. Journal #1: Why

    1. Pre-recorded Video Lesson: Black Perinatal Health Disparities

    2. Pre-recorded Video Lesson: Queer & Trans Birth

    3. Cultural Humility Slide Deck

    4. Resources

    5. Class Replay: Sabia on Cultural Humility

    6. Journal #2: Cultural Humility

    1. Pre-recorded Video Lesson: Paths to Reproduction

    2. Paths to Reproduction Slide Deck

    3. Resources

    4. Journal #3 : Reproduction

    5. Want to learn more?

    6. Q&A Replay

    1. Pre-recorded Video Lesson: Consent, Boundaries & Trauma

    2. Consent, Boundaries & Trauma Slide Deck

    3. Resources

    4. Pre-recorded Masterclass: Cristen Pascucci on Human Rights in Childbirth*

    5. Journal #4: Consent

    6. Class Replay: Mystique on Consent, Boundaries and Trauma

    1. Pre-recorded Video Lesson: Intro to Grief & Loss

    2. Grief and Loss Slide Deck

    3. Resources

    4. Pre-recorded Masterclass: Molly Dutton-Kenny on Pregnancy Loss

    5. Journal #5: Grief & Loss

    6. Local Resources Assessment - Part 1 of 4

    1. Pre-recorded Video Lesson: Intro to Pregnancy

    2. Pregnancy Slide Deck

    3. Resources

    4. Pre-recorded Video Lesson: Understanding Common Pregnancy Experiences

    5. Pre-recorded Video Lesson: The Pelvis and Pregnancy

    6. Pre-recorded Video Lesson: Comfort Measures in Pregnancy

    7. Pre-recorded Video Lesson: Unpacking Pregnancy Complications

    8. Pre-recorded Video Lesson: Role-Play Conversations Between Pregnant Students and Educators

    9. Local Resources Assessment - Part 2 of 4

    10. Assignment #1: Case Study

About this course

  • $750.00

Pricing options

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Note: We do not offer refunds or reimbursements once you enroll or set up a payment plan, and encourage you to budget accordingly. If life circumstances prevent you from participating in the course as planned, we may be able to extend your enrollment or adjust. You can make this request by emailing [email protected]

This course comes with a free listing in the BADT Directory!

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