February 11 & 12 or April 20 & 21 or April 25-May 23 (5 Wednesdays/Sabbath observers take note)
Are you interested in a career working with moms and babies? Become a professional birth doula at Michigan’s premier doula training center. Learn from international doula business expert, author (The Doula Business Guide: Creating a Successful MotherBaby Business,2010) and founder of Michigan Doula Connection, Patty Brennan. You do not need to be a mother yourself nor have a medical background to become a doula — just a passion for birth and the desire to be in a support role for other moms. Class leads to professional certification through DONA International.
For information and online registration: www.center4cby.com

DONA International Postpartum Doula Workshop/Center for the Childbearing Year, Ann Arbor
March 15-18, 2012 (Sabbath observers accommodated)
Turn your passion for helping moms, babies, and new families into a profitable career. Become a professional postpartum doula! This course prepares you to provide excellent in-home care to families in the postpartum period. We will focus on breastfeeding support, baby wearing basics, support strategies for depressed moms, holistic healing measures, adjustment strategies for all family members, and more! Training leads to professional certification through DONA International. Come to Michigan’s premier doula training center and learn from doula business expert, author (The Doula Business Guide: Creating a Successful MotherBaby Business,2010), and founder of the nonprofit Michigan Doula Connection, Patty Brennan.
For information and online registration: www.center4cby.com

Professional Education in Breastfeeding/With Barbara Robertson, MA, IBCLC/Center for the Childbearing Year, Ann Arbor
March 10 (Part I) and March 16 (Part II); can be taken separately           
This ground-breaking workshop ensures an up-to-date, evidence-based approach to breastfeeding. Tremendous leaps have recently been made in our understanding of how breastfeeding works and how to best support moms and babies. Any professional who works with moms postpartum will benefit from the instructor’s devotion to staying cutting edge and her passion for employing effective communication techniques to troubleshoot challenges.
For information and online registration: www.center4cby.com

Introduction to Childbirth for Doulas/Center for the Childbearing Year, Ann Arbor
February 10 or April 20, 2012
Want to become a doula and wondering where to start? Start here! Join us for a fun all-about-childbirth day. Learn how to facilitate informed decision making for your clients with cutting-edge information on the benefits, risks, and alternatives to medical interventions in the birth process. Explore the connection between nutrition in pregnancy and mom’s overall energy, health, and comfort. Additional topics include: safe use of herbs in the childbearing year; basic anatomy and physiology of pregnancy, labor, and birth; and more. Come to Michigan’s premier doula training center and learn from doula business expert, author (The Doula Business Guide: Creating a Successful MotherBaby Business,2010), and founder of the nonprofit Michigan Doula Connection, Patty Brennan.
For information and online registration: www.center4cby.com

Building Your Birth-Related Business with Patty Brennan/Center for the Childbearing Year, Ann Arbor
May 19, 2012 (awarded 6.5 DONA International CEUs)
From passion to profit … make a living doing what you love! Come and learn the skills necessary to be successfully self-employed in your birth-related or service-oriented business. How do you shape and define your practice? What are the basic business components necessary to your work? Understand and embrace marketing (think of it as education not selling). This class is appropriate for doulas, midwives, massage therapists, lactation consultants, childbirth educators, counselors, and other professionals who have self-employed income or want to establish a small business. Come to Michigan’s premier doula training center and learn from doula business expert, author (The Doula Business Guide: Creating a Successful MotherBaby Business,2010), and founder of the nonprofit Michigan Doula Connection, Patty Brennan.
For information and online registration: www.center4cby.com