Birth doula training
Data Driven Doula
593 pages. Five units, twenty-one chapters. The complete ICEA-approved training manual.
$120 paperback
The full library
Books, decks, and free tools.
Everything I make, in one place.
Books, decks, and free tools, built for parents, partners, doulas, and the clinical teams who hold them. Pick where you want to start.
Books & decks
Six titles, one shelf.
From the 593-page training manual to the deck that fits in a hospital bag. Every price is the full price, and every button checks out through PayPal.
Active-practice partner
The Companion Workbook
Mirrors the textbook chapter for chapter. Quizzes, client questionnaires, SOAP visit agendas.
$50 paperback
For families
The EVERYTHING Guide
Pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum, written like the friend who happens to be a nurse.
$50 paperback
Specialty · 16 CEUs
The Bereavement Doula
Textbook and companion workbook. Both required for the ICEA-approved specialty certification.
$50 both books
Comfort techniques
The Pocket Doula
50 comfort cards for the labor floor. Deck, pro deck, booklet, or a free mini version.
$40 deck · from $9.99
For trainers
Collaborative Birth Model
The instructor’s manual for teaching the collaborative birth model. Written for the people running the training.
$19.99 paperback
Free interactive tools
Three free tools, ready to use.
Two for families building their birth vision; one for doulas and educators practicing the work.
4 minutes
Mini Pocket Doula
Take a 10-question Birth Vision Quiz and walk away with your custom 12-card Mini Pocket Doula deck — print and use them free for your hospital bag.
Take the quiz 60+ minutesThe Birth Vision Navigator
An in-depth guide through the decisions you'll make throughout your perinatal journey, with the evidence and education behind every choice. Walk away with a custom PDF birth guide for your provider.
Open the Navigator For doulas & educatorsThe Birth Roll
A dice-driven doula training simulator. Roll for a client, walk her through pregnancy, labor, birth and postpartum, and practice BRAIN and presence against every kind of birth story.
Roll the dice
Where the books get used
Written from real rooms, not theory.
I am Executive Director and lead instructor at Mary’s Hands Network, the ICEA-approved community doula program I founded in 2023. Every book here is taught in my cohorts first: 276 doulas trained so far, and counting.
Read before you buy
Get a free sample chapter.
Pick the book you’re curious about and I will email you a sample chapter, so you can read the voice and decide for yourself.
Bulk orders
Ordering 10 or more for a cohort, hospital, or training program?
Bulk orders come with a discount and direct shipping. Get in touch and I will quote you directly, priced for your order size, with shipping we sort out together. Works for doula training cohorts, hospital staff trainings, university programs, and gift-shop stocking.
Birth doula training manual
The Data Driven Doula — what’s inside
Five units, 21 chapters, 593 pages.
- Unit 1 — Foundations. Role of the doula, scope of practice, history of birth work, racial disparities, ethical and legal frame.
- Unit 2 — Pregnancy. Anatomy and physiology, common discomforts and red flags, prenatal visits, screening, decision points, mental health, building the prenatal relationship.
- Unit 3 — Labor & Birth. The mechanics and emotional landscape of every stage, evidence-based comfort techniques, cesarean as a normal birth, interventions and advocacy.
- Unit 4 — Postpartum & Newborn. The fourth trimester, newborn assessment and care, lactation without dogma, postpartum mood disorders, the slow return to wholeness.
- Unit 5 — The Doula in the System. Building a sustainable practice, working with hospitals and providers, bereavement, trauma-informed care, the long haul.
Plus: 331-term master glossary · 210-question quiz bank · APA 7 bibliography (142 references) · equity-centered scripts and case studies throughout.
Active-practice partner
The Companion Workbook — what’s inside
Twenty-one chapters mirror the textbook chapter for chapter.
- The same learning objectives as the textbook chapter.
- Structured vocabulary review.
- Anatomy and physiology review where the science calls for it.
- Discussion questions with full writing space.
- A 10-question quiz at the end of each chapter.
Pairs with Data Driven Doula textbook.
For families
The EVERYTHING Guide — what’s inside
Pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum — the friend you wish you had by your side.
A complete pregnancy-through-postpartum guide for families, written in the voice of a doula who has stood at thousands of bedsides. Evidence-based, warm, and honest about the hard parts.
ISBN: 979-89-03363-05-6
Specialty training · Course materials
The Bereavement Doula — what’s inside
The course materials for the 16-CEU ICEA-approved bereavement doula specialty. Textbook and companion workbook, $50 for the pair. Both are required for the certification.
The textbook: Grief frameworks applied at the bedside · clinical communication scripts for the worst moments · bereavement protocols across hospital, birth center, and home. Built with morticians, OBs, social workers, and L&D + NICU nurses.
The Companion Workbook: Open-ended reflection prompts · honest self-assessment · case studies drawn from real practice (stillbirth, NICU loss, TFMR, infant death).
ISBNs: Textbook 979-89-03103-82-9 · Workbook 979-89-03103-91-1
Comfort techniques for labor
The Pocket Doula — the four versions
Mini Pocket Doula — free 10-question quiz, 12 custom cards as a printable PDF.
Booklet — $9.99 paperback, all 50 techniques in one slim book.
Standard Deck — $40, 50 physical cards in a slim metal tin.
Pro Deck — $100, pro-size cards built for daily professional use.
Or try the free quiz first.
