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Has anyone done or know anything about Doula training?

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rubles · 22/08/2006 16:15

Hi,
I have done some research on the web for the various doula training courses on offer and I am unsure which way to go as it seems difficult to tell each one apart.
Can anyone on here offer any experience?
I spoke to a woman at British Doulas but she sounded a bit eccentric (well, mad as a fruit bat actually) and it was difficult to get a straight answer out of her and I frankly didn't trust her as a result.

TIA

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jessicaandrebeccasmummy · 22/08/2006 16:16

You need Marslady.

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rubles · 22/08/2006 19:37

Marslady are you around??

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jofeb04 · 23/08/2006 11:47

Hiya
I've completed a Doula course, and am now working as a Doula. It was a wonderful and intense course.
If you want more information, CAT me.

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rubles · 23/08/2006 13:25

I don't know if I can CAT you. I'll try now...

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pupuce · 23/08/2006 19:16

You can CAT me too if you want... I am probably one those whose course you ahve seen on the web!
There are mumsnetters who have done my course... so you could get a reference that way
British doulas are not recognised by Doula UK - in case that matters to you!

Lilliput · 23/08/2006 19:30

I'm really interested in this too!! What do you mean CAT you, am I being dim?

pupuce · 23/08/2006 19:54

Contact Another Talker - see menu above... or simpler... see my website and contact me via that link

pupuce · 23/08/2006 19:56

Two mumsnetters (or maybe more as I know there are more doulas who may well be ex-trainees and I don't know their nickname), the mother of another mumsnetter are ex-trainees and several mumsnetters have dealt with me (to find them a doula) in the past so..... And I have been a doula (at no cost) to 2 mumsnetters too.... so have been around a while

jofeb04 · 23/08/2006 20:03

Hiya,
I did my training through Pupuce's company!!

pupuce · 23/08/2006 20:07

Did you go to Worcester ???

jofeb04 · 23/08/2006 20:12

Yes I did! It was really interesting Pupuce, and, I may even have my first Client

Wallace · 23/08/2006 20:12

How do you fit being a doula with looking after your own family?

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rubles · 23/08/2006 20:12

I have CAT you pupuce and jofeb04 - thanks.
Wow pupuce is that your company? I was really thinking about the Teddington one in October actually.
Does much work come through the doula Uk site?

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jofeb04 · 23/08/2006 20:13

Wallace,
Ive got good family support, including dp and inlaws etc.
Also got an excellent cm who has a few spaces for emergency care if needed.

pupuce · 23/08/2006 20:24

Great Jo
In London it is incredibly easy to find work... where Jo is - it's more of a challenmge so well done ! I would recommend to people to be on the Doula UK list but for that you need to attend a recognised course - mine is
You do have to have great chidlcare to be a birth doula (or possibly work with a back up though I believe that once you start a labour/birth... you can't just go home and get your back-up in... you're in for the duration!)
You can be a postnatal doula -I love it... I have made some really good friends through that too!

Domestickler is also an ex-trainee.
Don't know who the others have trained with but I probably train most doulas in the UK at the moment.... It's great fun

Wallace · 23/08/2006 20:37

Sounds like a really rewarding job, not sure I'd be able to find flexible enough childcare. Dh works away in the winter which would make it difficult. Maybe when the kids are a bit bigger - unless I could take my own tiny baby along

Wallace · 23/08/2006 20:41

Also I live in the Highlands of Scotland - probably not very easy to find work. May have a monopoly though!

Quadrophenia · 23/08/2006 20:44

Pupuce is lovely although i am no longer a doula

pupuce · 23/08/2006 20:48

There are a few doulas in the highlands... at least 2 in Inverness I think! I have trained three of the Scottish doulas listed here and at least another 3 who are not on that list.
Quadro... who are you ? A clue ???

Quadrophenia · 23/08/2006 20:50

I used to be Mykidsmum, Pupuce,does that help?

pupuce · 23/08/2006 20:54

Are you in E?

Quadrophenia · 23/08/2006 20:57

No Northampton, we emailed a bit when I was a member of DUK you helped me with my advertising and we spoke on the phone whne my client had trouble finding someone to tidy her house!

pupuce · 23/08/2006 20:58

Right
Why have you stopped ? There are not enough doulas in your area!

Quadrophenia · 23/08/2006 21:04

I began to feel really disillusioned with it to be honest, I was promoting myself left right and centre and not getting much work. Then I had a problem with a client don't want to say too much, but not in the sense that i did anything wrong but it all got a bit much. When it came to renewing my membership i was relly poor so didn't do it and then never did, all a bit sad really

pupuce · 23/08/2006 21:05

Well you can renew now it's only £20 for the rest of the year. A mumsnetter just had a baby and I had to find her a doula and she was not that far from you!