How to be a Fertility Doula
How can doulas provide information, emotional support and physical support during preconception? With more and more people finding themselves struggling to get pregnant, what role can the doula play in helping people advocate for themselves while they navigate the medical system and their natural holistic options?
Today's guest post is by Michelle Stroud of By the Moon. In her video, you will learn:
- How Michelle leaned into Fertility Doula work
- Why your community needs Fertility Doulas
- How Fertility Doula work helps you create a thriving birth business
Michelle Stroud is a Fertility and Birth Doula, Reflexologist and Reiki Master Teacher who has focused her professional practice around the support and care of people specifically at the time of preconception, pregnancy, birth and postpartum for the majority of her time as a professional holistic practitioner. She was formerly a Birth Doula Instructor with the Healing Arts Learning Organization and has extensive experience teaching and mentoring over 150 birth doulas in five Canadian provinces. She is the creator of Reiki for Fertility, Pregnancy, Birth and Postpartum, training doulas and others around the world how to facilitate healing and offer support to people preconception, during or after a loss, prenatally, during birth, after a traumatic birth and postpartum. To learn more about her training workshops in Canada or to request one in your area, visit her website, By the Moon.
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As a birth doula, I often get asked questions about fertility. I've been pondering how I could possibly meet this need because, as of now, I simply refer people to books or internet resources as our area lacks anything local along these lines. I've considered becoming a Fertility Awareness Method instructor as a way to meet some of this need as I feel some of it is just the need for basic understanding of how our bodies work and being able to identify and connect with our bodies. Michelle, thank you for sharing how you've met this need. It's given me some insight into some different avenues that I hadn't considered or even knew existed!
Wow. I'm inspired! And it turns out Michelle works just a few hours from where I live. Poring over her website now. Thank you for this.
Hi Michelle. Thank you for this video. It's right up my alley. I'm a Reiki Master Teacher as well and am teaching Reiki for Birthworkers in May. I would love to talk to you about infertility. I feel like that is my calling as well.
Hi Karen – Michelle likely won't see your comment, but you can contact her through her website that's linked in her Bio. 🙂
Thank you for this information. But how does one go about becoming a Fertility Doula? Just reading up on infertility? How would you know when you are qualified to offer it as a service?
Hey Jessi, in this case, Michelle, who created this video, is a fertility doula and she offers training workshops (which you can learn more about by clicking her link in her bio at the end of the article). There are also other companies that offer trainings as well.
If you cannot attend something in person, I trained as a Fertility Specialist with Bebo Mia through an online program that I HIGHLY recommend.
Thanks again Darlene for giving me the opportunity to share my love for fertility support with your followers. In the years since we created this resource the rest of the curriculum has been developed for reflexology, energy healing and full spectrum doula. I am happy to offer 10% off of tuition to anyone who registers for our Holistic Full Spectrum Doula course, Holistic Reproductive Practitioner training, Reflexology or Reiki training if they comment on their registration forms that they found us on Inspired Birth Pro.
That's awesome, Michelle. Your program sounds amazing!