Doula and Obstetric Nurse Training - Birth Coach Method

TRAINING PROGRAM FOR ALL BIRTH SUPPORT PROS
(Approved CEP)

Transformational Coaching for the Childbearing Process

Learn transformational coaching strategies to promote expectant and new parents' autonomy, confidence, positive mindsets, and healthy, satisfying experiences.

Our Mission

We're committed to integrating the principles and strategies of transformational coaching into the practices of ALL birth and postpartum support agents to help them fulfill their passion for leading their clients toward positive, healthy, and satisfying childbearing experiences.

While the term Labor coach has been used to describe birth support pros since the 70s, this integration is new. By shifting the focus from hands-on support to prenatal and postpartum coaching conversations, Transformational Birth Coaches empower individuals undergoing the utmost transformation of becoming parents. We're committed to continuing to develop coaching strategies and exercises for supporting individuals throughout the utmost transformation in human lives- pregnancy, birth, and becoming a parent.

Transformational Birth Coaches empower individuals undergoing the utmost transformation of becoming parents to:

Create a clear vision for the childbearing process and clarify their goals and desired experiences
Overcome internal resistance and challenges
Adopt positive motivations and mindsets
Choose the pathway that is right for them and is aligned with their beliefs, lifestyle, and values
Elicit expectant and new parents' clarity, confidence, and convictions.
Engage expectant and new parents in actions that bring them closer to achieving their desired experiences.

Coaching expectant individuals and new parents rely on these 5 'C's:
Clarity, Confidence, Conviction, Commitment, and (in) Charge

Learn the Differences

Help your clients practice new birthing and parenting skills that will serve them for life
Establish partnerships with clients, patients, and medical teams. A partnership is found to increase individuals' engagement, accountability, and the safety of care.

birth support coach teaching pregnant client

Get Great Results!

The coaching strategies we teach will allow you to lead powerful and engaging prenatal conversations in order to:

Lead expectant individuals and new parents to overcome fears, resistance, and false beliefs, and personal challenges that are success blockers, preventing them from reaching their desired experiences.
Increase birth givers' trust in themselves and see them become experts in their lives.
Elicit individuals' accountability for actively pursuing their healthy journey of pregnancy, birth, and parenting
Facilitate individuals' strong convictions so that they confidently advocate for themselves

coaching is an important skill for doulas and nurses to have

What's So Great About Coaching?

Coaching is the practice of leading individuals closer to achieving their goals. Coaches do so by facilitating clarity and providing clients with the strategies to confidently overcome challenges and internal resistances.
This sounds perfect for childbirth, right?

Indeed, the healthcare system already recognizes the value of coaching and collaborates with health and lifestyle coaches. With the practicality of coaching tools, you can create a powerful shift in your clients’ perspectives and help birthing women acknowledge and own their power and accountability in the birthing process.

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Advance Your Birth Support Practice

Birth Coach Method strives to lead pregnancy and birth support that is based on mutual respect, mutual trust, and partnership.

Meet the Team

Neri Life-Choma

M.A., Founder

Neri Life-Choma, MA, is a mother, veteran childbirth educator, birth doula, and doula trainer, and the founder of Birth Coach Method. For the last 22 years, she has worked with individuals and couples as they prepared for the transformation of giving birth and becoming parents. During these years Life-Choma directed and managed the programs of two birth resource centers- Mama Center in Tel-Aviv Israel, and Blossom Birth in Palo Alto, CA with great results in the community reach out and creating change in maternal care.

Neri's work with parents has been enriched by continuing her education and becoming a transformational life coach, hypnotherapist, and NLP practitioner. Neri has integrated principles and strategies of all these modalities of care into birth support in her book The Art of Coaching for Childbirth, which has been sold on Amazon with rave reviews. Neri leads the Tarnsformtional Birth Support Coaching Course which keeps attracting birth professionals from all over the globe.

Neri Life-Choma, Founder of Birth Coach Method

"It gives me a great sense of fulfillment when recall all the couples I've educated and supported in my 20 years of practice. Teaching birth support professionals is an honor. Thank you for joining me on our mission to provide birth support that acknowledges our clients' truth and vulnerability, and then infuses them with our professional knowledge and evidence-based practice."

Olga Libova

Advisory Committee

Olga is a DNP, M.S, and California Board Certified Nurse- Midwife. She is a tenured nursing faculty in De Anza college nursing program and Childbirth Educator.

Olga practices and resides in the San Francisco Bay Area California. She is a mother of three children. These days Olga is practicing with Altos Oaks Medical Group in Mountain View California.

Olga contributes a wealth of information to our program when it comes to prenatal care and alterations, medical aspects of labor, and birth and labor and delivery medical procedures. She is always updated when it comes to obstetric regulations and recommendations of ACOG.

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