Childbirth professionals can add another dimension to their practice and to their experiences serving women during pregnancy and postpartum by becoming more familiar with hypnosis and encouraging their clients to consider the use of hypnosis during pregnancy and birth.

In Part 2, I shared some resources to help you determine the state and federal requirements necessary to start your birth business in your area. In Part 3, I will take a look at business classes for small business owners.

Many people talk about NLP, or Neuro-Linguistic Programming, however very few people actually know what it is. That’s largely due to the fact that’s it’s a collection of techniques rather than one specific thing.

Are you just getting started and want some guidance about business tax requirements, record keeping requirements, and more? The Internal Revenue Service offers online video classes for small business owners.

Penny Simkin offers a variety of presentations and articles to help expand a birth professional’s education.

While looking for this book to buy online, I found that it is available FREE as a PDF file. Why a book that retails for $80 is free online, I’m not sure, but I’ll gladly take it!

New subscribers to my newsletter receive an email from me asking if they have any burning questions about starting or growing their birth business. This morning, I received a letter from Rebecca. She is thinking about becoming a doula, and she wanted to find out some ways to keep herself informed with up-to-date information. Here are some resources I offered to her.