Childbirth Educator Training and Certification
We believe that there is no single right way to give birth. We believe in offering
information and options, and respecting the parents' ability to choose for them what the
right path is. We believe that it is the parents responsibility to take care of their
health to the best of their ability and to do what they can to have a healthy pregnancy.
We believe in informed consent and empowered birth. We believe that the childbirth
educator's job is to give the information to the parents that they can use to have as
healthy and empowered of a birth as possible.
Those that train and certify with us can thereafter use the initials AZCCE
after their names to show that they are Nurturing Hearts Certified Childbirth Educators.
Requirements for Certification
- Training workshop - full weekend course is $200
- Observe a childbirth education class series
- Submit class outline
- Pass a final examination (option of written or oral)
After taking a Nurturing Hearts Childbirth Educator training workshop, you will be able to:
- Define normal childbirth in America
- Explain the importance of evidence-based teaching
- Define the types of learners and methods employed to help students retain information taught.
- Explain the importance of language and word usage when teaching
- Discuss the signs of pre-labor and warnings signs of pregnancy
- Explain the stages and phases of labor both emotional and physical.
- Explore the Gate Control Theory and Fight or Flight and their impact on childbirth.
- List various comfort measures for labor and birth and describe their benefit.
- State the questions of informed consent and how this may empower childbearing women.
- Discuss the immediate postpartum period and routine procedures that occur during this time.
- Explore the postpartum period and the adjustment to parenthood
- Discuss the benefits of breastfeeding and ways that childbirth educators can encourage breastfeeding.
- Explore unexpected outcomes including cesareans and precipitous births
- Explain the importance of working within the birthing community and being an active member
- List supplies helpful for childbirth classes and describe how they can be used.
- Discuss the business of being a childbirth educator.
- List various games and explain how they may be used in a childbirth preparation class.
DUAL CERTIFICATION OPTION
This is designed specifically for experienced doulas or chilbirth educators - certified through a
recognized organization who would like to add on the NHBS certification.
- Requirements for Dual Certification
- Copy of certification certificate from approved organization
- Sign a Standard of Practice form
- Submit a 500-word essay on Birth in Arizona
To see when classes are scheduled, please take a look at the Schedule
of Events.
