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What's a doula do? Are you curious? Did you have a doula? Wanna be a doula? We run preparation courses to help people become doulas.

The course is approved by Doula UK. We offer both online and in person courses.

12/01/2026

✨ Developing Doulas FREE Introductory Taster Session ✨

Curious about becoming a doula?

Join our FREE 2-hour Zoom workshop and explore what our doula training and life in the birth world are really like.

Led by one of our experienced doulas and course facilitators, these intro sessions are a safe space for you to:
• Have an overview of the Developing Doulas doula training
• Gain an insight into birthwork and ongoing mentoring
• Be in a supportive space to ask questions and share your hopes (and fears!) with a like-minded group

Upcoming Dates:
📅 Saturday 24th January - 7pm
📅Tuesday 7th April at 10am

To book, simply email us with the date you would like to attend @ info@developingdoulas.co.uk

Zoom links are sent the day before.

07/01/2026

💜Are you looking to deepen your knowledge of postpartum support?

💜Or do you want to be a doula who specialises in the precious postpartum period?

💜Are you called to this work but know attending births isn't for you?

💜Would working as a postpartum doula fit in better with you lifestyle?

The Developing Doulas Specialist Postnatal Course is designed to be the perfect start to your postnatal doula career or a deeper dive for doulas who want to specialise in postpartum support.

Some of the topics covered are:
Active Listening
Debriefing
What does a Mother/new parent Need?
What Does a Baby Need?
The Hormones of the postnatal period
Creating a Postnatal Plan
Feeding babies
Consent and Human Rights
The role of the postnatal doula
Boundaries and dealing with tricky situations
Evidence based practice
Infant Sleep
Setting up as a postnatal doula – business and practicalities

Our next PN course is:
📍Surrey
📆9th, 11th, 13th March 2026
💜with Zara

01/01/2026

Let's get behind campaign. Listening to Wes Streeting talk about the maternity crisis on radio 4 this morning underscored to me yet again that politicians really have no understanding of the depths to which we have sunk. We must act now to save midwifery and any hope of relationship based care on the NHS.

Our campaign for safer midwives’ working hours is growing! With nearly 12k signatures on our petition, national press attention and MP support, it’s time to build on that momentum and get BIGGER.

We need people with big platforms to share our campaign. Tag your favourite influencer below: it could be a celeb known for talking about women’s health and family life, a medfluencer, an athlete…who do you think would help us go HUGE? Let me know in the comments so I can ask for their support!
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24/12/2025

💜 From our hearts to yours

❄️This festive season, Developing Doulas sends love, warmth, and gentle strength to our doula cuddle, birth community and every growing family. May your days be filled with rest, connection, and moments of calm🤍

🌟To all the doulas around the world - thank you for the care you give, the space you hold, and the difference you make today and always. 💫

KEEP PICKING UP STARFISH EVERYONE

Happy Holiday

Love,

Developing Doulas ###

16/12/2025

Is 2026 the year you train to be a doula?

Are you ready to embrace your calling?

Families are looking for someone just like you!

We have courses running in London, Norfolk, Brighton, Cambridge, Surrey, Manchester and online.

The Developing Doulas Doula Preparation Course and Postnatal-only Course are Doula UK approved.

We have been training doulas since 2007.

Our course is more than just a training. It is a time to reflect, expand and deepen. To get to know yourself and the support you will offer.

Developing Doulas is a community and we can't wait to welcome you into our cuddle.

#2026

15/12/2025

✨ Developing Doulas FREE Introductory Taster Session ✨

Are you thinking of doing our doula training in 2026?

Join our FREE 2-hour Zoom workshop and explore what our doula training and life in the birth world are really like.

Led by one of our experienced doulas and course facilitators, these intro sessions are a safe space for you to:
• Have an overview of the Developing Doulas doula training
• Gain an insight into birthwork and ongoing mentoring
• Be in a supportive space to ask questions and share your hopes (and fears!) with a like-minded group

Upcoming Dates:
📅 Tuesday 16th December - 10am

To book, simply add your chosen date when emailing info@developingdoulas.co.uk
Zoom links are sent the day before.

09/12/2025

🌿 A Very Special Developing Doulas Course in Sheringham 🌿

In February 2026, something truly special is happening in Sheringham, North Norfolk. For the first time since July 2024, will be putting her teaching hat back on and we are beyond honoured to welcome her back.

Maddie is the Co-Founder of Developing Doulas. She wrote this transformational training and has been lovingly guiding new doulas since 2007. There’s simply no one like her, her teaching is pure magic: spacious, wise, effortlessly captivating, and rooted in nearly two decades of holding families and doulas through every season of birth.

If you’ve been feeling the call to take your first steps into birth work, this is the moment to listen. There is something profoundly special about learning from someone who has shaped so much of the doula landscape in the UK and beyond.

We’ll be gathering in the heart of the UK’s premier seaside town, right on the shoreline. Two nourishing weekends by the sea — 21st, 22nd, 27th, 28th February and 1st March. We will be held in community, curiosity and gentle transformation.

A limited number of overnight spaces are available on site at £50 per night for those who want to sink a little deeper into the magic.

For this intake, we’re hoping to welcome a professional photographer and videographer to gently capture the essence of the course, it is a way of holding these precious moments in the DD story forever. This means participants will need to be comfortable with discreet filming during the course.

Come join us. This one will be unforgettable. 💜

#2026

05/12/2025

Did you know there is an annual Developing Doulas retreat?

Our next one is September 11th-14th 2026.

Our retreat is open to all our members. Whatever Developing Doulas course you have done, you are welcome here 💜

✨ 🌱It takes place in the magical where we will be held by nature and each other as we recharge, reconnect and rejuvenate. 💫🌿

📆Tickets go on sale mid January

💜 Thank you for capturing these moments at this years retreat 💜

#2026

15/11/2025

✨ Developing Doulas FREE Introductory Taster Session ✨

Curious about becoming a doula?

Join our FREE 2-hour Zoom workshop and explore what our doula training and life in the birth world are really like.

Led by one of our experienced doulas and course facilitators, these intro sessions are a safe space for you to:
• Have an overview of the Developing Doulas doula training
• Gain an insight into birthwork and ongoing mentoring
• Be in a supportive space to ask questions and share your hopes (and fears!) with a like-minded group

Upcoming Dates:
📅 Friday 21st November — 10am
📅 Tuesday 16th December — 10am

To book, simply add your chosen date when emailing info@developingdoulas.co.uk
Zoom links are sent the day before.

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