Doula Trainings
2026 WORKSHOPS Are these meetings for You?
✨ Yes, if you’re a birth or postpartum doula or night nanny
✨ Yes, if you want to enhance your doula/night nanny skills and knowledge!
✨ Yes, if you’re ready to attract more clients and explore exciting opportunities with NY Baby!
Perfectionize your client interviews, set up your prenatal and postpartum sessions, build a team of back-up doulas and much more!
Investment: $147 for the whole series
Doula Mentorship & Training Series
with Stephanie Heintzeler, founder of NY Baby
Twice a year NY Baby is offering a 4-session mentoring and training series designed for new and newly certified birth and postpartum doulas ready to build real skills and a real business.
Led by Stephanie Heintzeler — a former midwife and birth doula, IBCLC lactation consultant, and founder of The New York Baby, the NYC doula agency she started in 2014 — this series draws on over a decade of hands-on clinical and business experience to help you step into this work with confidence.
By the end of the series, you will have learned:
- How to get clients to hire you
- How to build a referral network — connecting with other professionals who send you clients and vice versa
- Doula boundaries, both with clients and within scope of practice
- How to lead a prenatal session
- Safe practices for birth support
- Supporting a client during labor: communicating with the medical team, comfort measures, and pain relief options
- Key medical terminology
- How to conduct a postpartum visit
- Tackling common breastfeeding issues
- Safe practices for postpartum visits
- And much more!
When we meet:
Thursdays, 7:30–8:45pm on Zoom
November 5, 12, 19, and December 3
(weekly, with a break the week of Thanksgiving)
How we’ll work together:
Each session includes small-group breakouts to practice client interviews, prenatal sessions, and birth support in a low-pressure, supportive setting. Between sessions, you’ll have homework designed to grow both your doula knowledge and your business. We’ll also set up a group chat via Signal so you can stay connected with your fellow doulas throughout — and beyond — the series.
Plus you get to join our NY Baby virtual monthly doula meetings 3 times at no cost!
What’s next:
During or after the series, you’re welcome to apply to join the NY Baby agency for client referrals.
Investment: $147 for the full series
Questions? Email [email protected] — we’d love to have you.
“As a seasoned doula, I found the New York Baby doula mentoring program a useful review and an eye-opener. I especially appreciated Stephanie’s insights into breastfeeding — like how cluster feeding in the evenings is the baby’s way of ordering up the type of milk needed for the next day. The opportunity to share experiences with other doulas in the program was invaluable. I heartily recommend this program to new and long-time doulas alike — it was well worth my time.”
TBD
Preventing burn-out: Strategies for birth and postpartum doulas
Sign up here. If you are a doula who is listed with NY Baby, use code NYBABY for 100% off!
Former workshops this year:
TBD
It’s all about your biz
- How to get your client to book you after the interview
- How to prepare your client for life with baby, conduct an inspiring prenatal call or visit and set up the best first postpartum visit
- How to communicate during difficult conversations with families
Cost:
$19 per session. Free with code NYBABY if you are a listed doula/night nanny on the NY Baby website.
Sign up here
Shira Sussi, registered dietitian
Supporting the Body on an Irregular Schedule
The postpartum period is one of profound transformation—physically, emotionally, and nutritionally. As a doula or baby specialist supporting the birth person and family, your hours don’t follow a 9–5 rhythm—and that can take a toll on your energy, digestion, and overall well being.
Irregular eating patterns, night shifts, and disrupted sleep can challenge your natural circadian rhythm, which plays a key role in everything from blood sugar balance to hormone regulation. In this workshop, we’ll explore how to support the healing body with food, replete nutrients depleted by pregnancy and birth, and build energy for the demands of new parenthood, as well as how to support YOU during long days and nights.
Workshop taught by Shira Sussi MS RD CDN of Shira Sussi Nutrition in cooperation with The New York Baby.
Cost:
$19 per session. Free with code NYBABY if you are a listed doula/night nanny on the NY Baby website.
Sign up here.
Questions? Email me at [email protected].
Book a NY Doula workshop today and watch your business grow!
In-person workshop Breathing techniques for labor and birth
Date: TBD
Conducting an organized prenatal and postpartum session with your client
Date: TBD
Fee: $15 (free for doulas who are listed on the NY Baby website- use code NYBABY).
What topics should be covered during a prenatal session?
How do I not overwhelm my client with all this information?
Being professional, empathic and organized throughout my time with my client
Helping the best way possible during the postpartum visit(s)without loosing myself
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Do’s and dont’s for a client interview
Date: TBD
Fee: $15 (free for doulas who are listed on the NY Baby website- use code NYBABY).
1) Learn what clients want to hear in order to hire you!
2) Discover how to look your best during a virtual interview
3) The No.1 thing that will help a client stay engaged with you
4) Typical questions and how to answer them
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Supporting medicated births
Date: TBD
Fee: $15 (free for doulas who are listed on the NY Baby website- use code NYBABY).
More than 80% of clients mention that they don’t want an epidural during labor. Many change their mind once they are experiencing contractions. As a doula it is our job to support our client no matter what kind of birth she has. How can we help them when there is an epidural in place? What other interventions might come up with an epidural and how can we avoid a csection? Join NY Baby to learn!
Grow your business
Date: TBD
Join me for our comprehensive workshop on how to become a successful doula! As a former midwife and doula living in NYC, I’m now eager to share my secrets to a filled and a path of joy in my birth work. You can have this success, too!
- Do you want to get booked 6 months in advance while charging what you are worth for your doula services?
- Do you want to prove the current reputation wrong that doulas burn out quickly and rarely make a living on being a doula alone?
- Do you want to learn how to run a doula business rather than being in a 9-5 helping profession that doesn’t pay?
- Do you want to know how to help your client get the birth they want?
Doula Trainings