Why Sign Up For The Doulaing The Doula Mentoring and Certification Program When I Can't Get In The Hospital?

 Doulaing the Doula offers provisional certification for trainees in our certification program. This provides you with the certification paperwork needed for admittance to hospitals requiring it. We provide you with a DTD certificate and letter stating that you are a "provisionally certified birth doula" and "have begun the requirements for Birth Doula Certification and are qualified to offer professional labor support to pregnant people and their families" for a limited time period (usually three to six months). This empowers you to attend the births of clients as if you were fully certified with our organization. The letter states that we believe in you and your abilities, summarizes your training, and gives my personal email and phone number to contact if there are any conflicts.

Hospitals that allow doulas are requiring certification, mostly without any further explanation or information. Provisional certification responds to their need for documentation. Further, we offer accountability and follow up in the event of any conflicts. Doulaing The Doula's reputation for quality doula training is solid in Wisconsin and the upper Midwest and is gaining throughout the United States.  

Since the pandemic began, I have successfully advocated for six trained doulas (without provisional certification) to be admitted as the doula of choice for the patient even though the doula did not meet the "certification" requirement. We are confident that when presented to administrative staff, your provisional certification documents will be sufficient to gain you admittance. 

The fine print: 

• Provisional certification is a benefit of our certification program, and participants need to be enrolled in and made payments towards their program. 
• Provisional certification needs to be discussed with and recommended by your Certification Coach. 
• It's expected you will debrief the births with your Certification Coach in group meetings. 
• There are no other benefits to provisional certification. For example, trainees may not use the initials "CBD" after their name; nor may they represent themselves as fully certified in their materials or social media. 
• You can be provisionally certified more than once during your certification period. 

This week's email series has three different answers to this question:

Yesterday, we covered three practical reasons to get started now!

Today, you learned about our provisional certification program!

Next, reasons to expand your vision about what doulaing actually can be for your clients!

Certification Groups Begin in late January with Tori and Amanda!

In February with Kay'La and Kiara!

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