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What's a doula do? Are you curious? Did you have a doula? Wanna be a doula? We run preparation courses to help people become doulas.

The course is approved by Doula UK. We offer both online and in person courses.

15/11/2025

✨ Developing Doulas FREE Introductory Taster Session ✨

Curious about becoming a doula?

Join our FREE 2-hour Zoom workshop and explore what our doula training and life in the birth world are really like.

Led by one of our experienced doulas and course facilitators, these intro sessions are a safe space for you to:
• Have an overview of the Developing Doulas doula training
• Gain an insight into birthwork and ongoing mentoring
• Be in a supportive space to ask questions and share your hopes (and fears!) with a like-minded group

Upcoming Dates:
📅 Friday 21st November — 10am
📅 Tuesday 16th December — 10am

To book, simply add your chosen date when emailing info@developingdoulas.co.uk
Zoom links are sent the day before.

14/11/2025

Begin your doula journey with in Surrey for our February Doula Preparation Course!

Dates: February 2nd, 3rd, 9th, 10th, 11th
Location: Haselmere

Laura has been teaching the course since 2021 and says " I consider it to be such a privilege to hold space for others who are embarking on their Doula journey. I facilitate courses now from my home in a village outside Haslemere, sitting on the boundary of Surrey, Hampshire & Sussex. The work that I do is a huge passion of mine, but I’m also so passionate about supporting newer Doulas to set up sustainable businesses, to believe in their value and self worth. I so look forward to you joining my cohort, where I can facilitate you the crazily exciting beginning of your Doula journey – Doulaing you all the way!"

You can find more details on the curriculum of the course, fees and how to book a place on our website.

13/11/2025

Is 2026 the year you start your doula journey? 💫

Join the Developing Doulas Doula Preparation Course with this January in South London. We look forward to welcoming you onto our nurturing and powerful course that equips you to support birth and postnatal families across the UK

🌿Our courses are a space to learn, grow, embrace your calling and connect to yourself 🌿

This is your year! And so many families will benefit from the unique gifts that you will bring to this work and into their lives.

You can find out more information on the course curriculum on our website, email for more information or book a connection call.📞

We can't wait for you to join our great big doula cuddle 💜

07/11/2025

✨ Connection & Consolidation Day ✨
Our C&C days are designed especially for DDs who’ve taken the online version of the Developing Doulas course and for those thinking about starting their doula journey.

It’s a chance to come together in person to practise the things that are trickier online, share experiences, and of course… get some real-life doula hugs! 🤗💛

This C&C day is followed by two optional extras:
🌿 A relaxed social & doula cuddle day
🌿 A hands-on workshop day

If you’ve completed any DD course, both the C&C Day and the Cuddle Day are completely free to you.
If you’re curious about becoming a doula, you’re warmly welcome to join as a taster for just £50.

We have just ran C&C days in Cambridge and Surry and have many more planned for 2026

We can’t wait to gather, connect, and grow with you. 💫

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03/11/2025

The Storm has passed. The danger has not.

On the 28th of October Jamaica experienced one of its strongest hurricanes in its history.

It has left people without their homes and livelihoods, without access to clean water and without food. Families with newborns and young children and pregnant mothers are at great risk of danger and illness without safe food, basic hygiene and newborn care.

The White Ribbon Alliance UK is raising funds to provide on the ground support to help mothers, parents, and children in Jamaica recover after the devastating hurricane. Their work will provide support for safer births, hygiene, and dignity.

You will find a link in our linktree to their gofund me page. If you can give anything at all, it will make a huge difference to the most vulnerable living there.

31/10/2025

Never a truer word spoken! Thank you for these words that cut through the distraction techniques of those who would like to control birth. It’s not doulas, midwifery education, physiological birth, homebirth or old, fat and complicated women making birth unsafe and unsatisfying. It’s a broken system that has been running on fumes and unpaid overtime FOR YEARS.

It time for those of us who understand how birth ACTUALLY works and what parents ACTUALLY want and need to take the gloves off and start setting the agenda. We can’t leave policy making and funding decisions to ignorant politicians and biased campaigners.

23/10/2025

💜 The doula course for compassionate, community-minded people 💜

Join in south London for an in-person Developing Doulas Birth and Postnatal Doula Preparation course.

Has this work been calling you? 🤰
Are you ready to start this journey with like-minded and passionate people? 🧠
Do you want to start supporting families in your local community? 🤝

🗓️ Course Dates:
November 2025
15th, 16th, 22nd, 23rd, 29th, 30th Nov
Saturdays 9 to 5
Sundays 9 to 2.30
📍 South London

📖 Learn face-to-face
💜Connect deeply, and grow in a nurturing circle of future doulas
👐 Hands-on learning
🍃 Space to share, reflect, and grow
🤰Prepare to start supporting families in the UK

Come as you are. Leave as a doula. 💫

17/10/2025

Check this out for some good news around the depiction of birth in the media! Thank you for this great review ❤️

13/10/2025

As doulas, we may be called to support families through the heartbreak of baby, pregnancy, and fertility loss. It is important we offer support that is both sensitive and meaningful. One of the most powerful ways we can do this is by being loss-informed, ensuring that we use language which recognises the pain rather than encourages the parents to ‘try again’ or ‘have hope’.

Doula and Grief Educator/ Coach reminds us that as doulas it is important we don’t abandon new families after loss, but remain connected to them, ensuring that their loss isn’t compounded by loneliness or silence.

helps families as they navigate loss in their journeys to parenthood. Kay also coaches doulas in how they can support families and journeys with them through their own grief.

Kay runs Rituals for Being, a company which provides bespoke grief education, support and coaching for people after Baby, pregnency or fertility loss. You can contact her on www.ritualsforbeing.com

09/10/2025

🕯 Baby Loss Awareness Week | 9–15 October 🕯

This week, the baby loss community, and those who stand beside it, come together to remember our much-loved and missed babies, and to raise awareness of pregnancy and baby loss. 💗

You may have supported a family through loss as a doula, experienced it personally, or know someone who has. The loss of these little lives brings a grief that stays with us always. This week is about connection, its about seeing the community around you and helping it feel a little less lonely. It is also a time to raise awareness and fundraising to improve outcomes for the future.

Across the week, there are many ways to take part - from Ribbon Runs to ’s “Say Our Baby’s Name” campaign.

The week concludes with the global on Tuesday 15 October at 7pm 🕯 along with other baby loss organisations invite everyone to light a candle for one hour in memory of the babies who are forever in our hearts.
Developing Doulas will be lighting a candle to honour all the families we have held through loss, and our own personal losses too. 💜

Please remember - if you have experienced baby loss, at any stage, it’s okay if you don't take part in Baby Loss Awareness Week, this year or ever. Grief is deeply personal. For some, BLAW can be a difficult time. Your feelings are valid, and your wellbeing matters most. Protect your boundaries, choosing not to take part is not a reflection of love for your baby but an act of self preservation.

If you ever need support, reach out to - they are always there. 💗

08/10/2025

✨ Are you fascinated by birth? ✨
Are you ready to turn your passion into a fulfilling, heart-led career?

At Developing Doulas, we know that supporting families through pregnancy, birth and early parenthood isn't just a job, it's a calling. 💫Our comprehensive Doula Preparation Course helps you build upon your knowledge, grow your confidence and find your community. 🌿

Do you want to support families as they journey through pregnancy? 👣
Train to be a doula with Developing Doulas 💜

Join a movement of compassionate, skilled birth workers changing the world one family at a time. 🌍

👉 Tap the link in our bio to find out more about our courses

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