The Best Way to Prepare for Your First Doula Meeting

I’ve found that the most effective, planned prenatal appointments will:

• ADDRESS client needs (Not Your Bias!) in your doula client prenatals
• IDENTIFY a Birth philosophy rather than a birth plan
• USE Time Wisely and don’t waste a second of your client meetings

Doulas, we really have to make sure we get this! I’ve got a free class – 3 Effective Elements for Prenatal Appointments – to prepare you for incredible prenatal appointments! 

As a doula for over 7 years, I’ve found that the best way to prepare clients for our meetings was blessedly simple: Have a plan! But not just any plan, a plan for an effective prenatal appointment.

Do you find yourself painstakingly taking doula clients through every single handout you printed? Or do you catch that ‘deer in the headlight’ look from your families because they’re overwhelmed with information?

The single way to decrease your effectiveness as a doula – and jeopardize your client’s trust in your abilities – is to not know how you’ll spend your time in prenatal meetings. The last thing you want in your client meetings is a bunch of awkward dead space or a multi-hour disorganized information dumping session.

I get it! Sometimes you do have a plan, but your client wanted to talk for 30 minutes about their sister who just had a baby and how scary that birth story was. That begs the question, do you have a plan for when things don’t go to plan? (Spoiler alert: this is my plan!)

In this free, 40-minute class I’ll walk you through those 3 steps for effective doula prenatal appointments. We’ll talk about how to have a plan for when things don’t go to plan, as well as how to really impress your clients with your preparedness and skills.

What are you waiting for? Grab the class!