Birth Doula Training

Train as a Birth Doula with Jen Crawford

Empowering Families. Changing Lives.

Living with Purpose.

Are you ready to build a career that’s truly meaningful, one where you support families through one of life’s most powerful and transformative experiences?

If your heart says yes, this is your invitation to begin your journey with Jen Crawford’s Professional Birth Doula Training. This is a one of a kind, heart centred and evidence based training, designed to empower you with the skills, confidence, and mindset to make a real difference.

You might be ready to take this step if you…

✅ Have a deep passion for birth, babies, and supporting others

✅ Believe birth can be a positive, empowering experience

✅ Feel families deserve more care, connection and advocacy

✅ Want a flexible, heart led career that fits your life

✅ Dream of combining purpose with a sustainable business

Maybe you’ve already witnessed how powerful the right support can be or you’ve experienced what it feels like when that support is missing.

Now, you’re ready to be that person: calm, informed, and compassionate, offering strength and reassurance when families need it most.

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Live & Interactive on Zoom, learn from the comfort of your own home.

🗓 May 2026 Training Dates (10am-2pm each day):

  1. Thursday 7th

  2. Tuesday 12th

  3. Thursday 14th

  4. Tuesday 19th

  5. Thursday 21st

  6. Tuesday 26th

CPDs throughout April & June (3 are mandatory for this course and included in the price, you can pay to attend as many of my additional CPDs as you feel called to)

Mandatory CPD dates:

  1. Self-Care, Compassion Fatigue & Burnout Prevention (2 hours): 28th April 10.30am-12.30pm

  2. Supporting VBAC & caesarean birth. (3 hours) 4th June 10.30am-1.30pm

  3. Supporting Birth Trauma (3 hours) Thursday 16th April 10.15am-1.15pm

*All sessions will be recorded so you can playback if you cannot attend live. It is expected you will attend most of the sessions live to engage in the activities and group discussions. You will have questions to answer on the modules you do not attend live to ensure you have deep understanding of the topic before your certificate is issued.

All you need is a Zoom account and internet connection.

Early Bird offer of €795 available until 31st March 2026. Full Training Fee: €995.

Secure your place today with a €200 non refundable deposit, and pay the balance before training begins.

Spaces are limited to ensure a personal, interactive learning experience

This will be my only Birth Doula Training in 2026 (running once a year) Once you complete the required modules and assignments you will be certified to get professional insurance.and can work as a doula straight away.

What you’ll learn

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    Provide compassionate, non-judgmental birth support, communicate effectively and hold safe, supportive emotional space for every family.

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    Offer practical comfort measures for labour and birth including hands on tools and techniques to empower clients through every stage.

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    Support all birth experiences from VBAC and inductions to caesarean and multiple births, with confidence and care.

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    Navigate hospital systems with ease build positive relationships with care providers and advocate respectfully for your clients.

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    Promote emotional wellbeing and recovery supporting families through trauma, postpartum adjustment, and early feeding (breast, expressing, or formula).

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    Build your professional doula practice grow your business with clarity, confidence, and integrity while working safely within your scope

Why Train With Jen Crawford

  • Over 15 years’ experience supporting families across Ireland and globally via zoom support

  • Deep understanding of the Irish maternity system

  • Life, business, and parenting coach perspective to help you thrive personally and professionally

  • Proven background in building and leading Ireland’s first doula agency

  • Antenatal and breastfeeding expertise rooted in evidence based care

  • Supportive, interactive, and empowering training designed for adult learners

This is more than doula training it’s personal development, professional mentorship, and business coaching combined.

Becoming a doula is one of the most rewarding and life affirming journeys you can take.

You’ll gain the skills, confidence, and support to offer life changing care to families while creating a meaningful career that fits your values and lifestyle.

Book your place now with a €200 deposit

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Core Training (6 Days | 24 Hours) you must also complete the 3 CPD modules (3 Days | 8 hours)

🕙 10:00am–2:00pm live on Zoom

(Includes a 15-minute break each day)

  • Day 1 — The Role of the Birth Doula

    Scope of practice, ethics, boundaries, core values, and professional identity. Understanding the doula role within the maternity care system.

    Guest Speaker: Lisa Joyce A working birth doula — a day in the life, with live Q&A.

  • Day 2 — Communication, Advocacy & Inclusive Support

    Unbiased, non judgemental communication, active listening, and holding safe emotional space. Supporting informed decision-making without bias or judgement. Inclusive, respectful care for diverse families and client choices.

  • Day 3 — The Stages of Labour & Induction

    A clear, step by step overview of labour and birth, what is happening physiologically, emotionally and practically — from early signs through to the first hour after birth. Includes induction of labour, what to expect, and how to support families emotionally and practically at each stage.

  • Day 4 — Labour Support, Comfort Measures & Pain Management Options

    Hands on labour support techniques, comfort measures, and partner support. Understanding pharmacological pain relief options and how to support informed choice.

    Guest Speaker: Aisling Finnegan, BirthBox. A working doula and antenatal educator. Practical tools, positions, comfort measures, and what to pack in your doula bag.

  • Day 5 — The Doula Journey: From First Contact to final Postpartum Visit

    Working with clients step by step — enquiries, interviews, antenatal visits, labour support, immediate postpartum care, and the postpartum visit.

  • Day 6 — Professional Practice & Business Foundations

    Ethical practice, documentation, and working confidently within scope. Strong foundations for building a sustainable, heart-led doula business that actually works.

    Guest Speaker: Representative from the Doula Association of Ireland (DAI) on peer support and professional membership.

Included 3 mandatory CPD Modules (Open to external participants)

  1. Self-Care, Compassion Fatigue & Burnout Prevention (2 Hours)

    Learn how to care deeply without depleting yourself, recognise early warning signs, and build long-term resilience in birth work.

  2. Supporting VBAC & Caesarean Birth (3 hours)

    Support for families planning a VBAC or experiencing a caesarean birth.

    Includes emotional preparation, evidence based information, processing previous experiences, creating birth preferences and respectful, trauma aware care.

  3. Supporting Birth Trauma (3 hours)

    Trauma-aware, respectful support — without fixing, pushing, or re-traumatising.

    Understanding your role, scope, and referral pathways.

    Guest Speaker: Gemma Doyle 3 Step Rewind Technique

    Includes guest speakers, real life scenarios, and interactive sessions for deep, experiential learning.

✨ Live & Interactive on Zoom — learn from the comfort of your own home.

🗓 2026 Training Dates:

Core training modules May 2026

CPDs April & June

All you need is a Zoom account and internet connection.

Early Bird offer of €795 available until 31st March 2026. Full Training Fee: €995.

Secure your place today with a €200 non refundable deposit, and pay the balance before training begins.

Spaces are limited to ensure a personal, interactive learning experience

CPDs throughout April & June:

These CPD sessions are open to anyone to attend, doulas, antental educators, IBCLCs, HCAs, midwives, Nurses, Breastfeeding supporters, Doctors, Yoga teachers or any professional who supports parents and babies.

  1. Supporting the Expressing Mother. (4 hours) 17th June 2026

    Including NICU, sick and preterm babies, and the practical and emotional realities of expressing milk.

    Guest Speaker Dr Sonya Quinn IBCLC with gadgets and additional supports.

  2. Babywearing for Doulas. (2 hours) Date TBC (April/June)

    Learn safe, supportive babywearing to enhance bonding, regulation, and hands-free care in the postpartum period

    Guest Speaker: Tricia Nugent Babywearing Consultant.

  3. Self-Care, Compassion Fatigue & Burnout Prevention (2 Hours) 28th April 2026 10.30am-12.30pm

    Learn how to care deeply without depleting yourself, recognise early warning signs, and build long-term resilience in birth work.

  4. Supporting Multiples Practical, emotional, and realistic support for families with twins or higher order multiples. (3 hours) Date 22nd April 11am-2pm

    Guest speaker: Fran Smith Mother of Twins, who had a vaginal birth and breastfed. open Q&A

  5. Support for families planning a VBAC or experiencing a caesarean birth. (3 hours) 4th June 10.30am-1.30pm

    Includes emotional preparation, evidence based information, processing previous experiences, creating birth preferences and respectful, trauma aware care.

  6. Supporting Birth Trauma (3 hours) Thursday 16th April 10.15am-1.15pm

    Trauma aware, respectful support — without fixing, pushing, or re-traumatising.

    Understanding your role, scope, and referral pathways.

    Guest Speaker: Gemma Doyle 3 Step Rewind Technique

  7. Paediatric First Aid Course. (3 hours) Date TBC

    Tailored for Parents & those who care for babies.

    Guest Speaker: First Aid Trainer.

    Includes guest speakers, real life scenarios, and interactive sessions for deep, experiential learning.

About Your Trainer — Jen Crawford

About Your Trainer — Jen Crawford

About Your Trainer — Jen Crawford

I’m Jen Crawford, and I’ve spent the last 15 years devoted to supporting families and growing the doula profession in Ireland and globally.

I bring together a rare combination of experience that makes this training truly unique not just in Ireland, but globally.

🎓 Antenatal Educator with a 2½-year Diploma from Antenatal Ireland

🤱 Breastfeeding Counsellor and co-author of the HSE booklet “Breastfeeding and Expressing for Your Premature Baby”

💕 Former Director and Breastfeeding Coordinator for Irish Premature Babies, supporting families through the challenges of early arrival

👶 Birth and Postpartum Doula, having personally supported hundreds of families through pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood

🌿 Co-founder of DoulaCare Ireland, the country’s first doula agency, where I grew every aspect of the business from the ground up

🧭 Certified Life, Business & Parenting Coach, helping women and parents step into their confidence and create balance in life and work

This depth of experience across birth, business, coaching, and education is what makes this training one of a kind.

You’ll gain not only professional knowledge and practical skills, but also the personal growth and business foundations to build a sustainable, purpose led doula practice.

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  • It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.

  • It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.

  • It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.

  • It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.