312 Doulas

12/05/2025

📚 ✨ Ready to feel truly prepared for birth and beyond? ✨ 👶

Feeling overwhelmed by all the conflicting information out there? Let be your trusted guide.

Our expertly crafted class offerings are the perfect way to build your knowledge, ease your anxiety, and connect with other parents in the 312 community.

🗓️ Upcoming Classes Include:

📚 ✨ Evidence Based Birth®
📚 ✨ Gentle Birth® Hypnosis
📚 ✨ Advanced Comfort Measures
📚 ✨VBAC workshop
📚 ✨Bring Baby Home with Infant CPR

Give yourself the gift of confidence! Check out our website (link in bio) for dates, times, and registration. We can't wait to learn with you!

💖 Questions about which class is right for you? Drop a comment below!

12/03/2025

Get the Evidence Based Birth® Class + 3 amazing bonuses (Doula discount! Breastfeeding class!).

DM “great birth” for 10% OFF! 🤰✨🤱🏽🔗 Link in bio!

Ready to go beyond standard classes? Join our 6 weekly Zooms + in-person Advanced Comfort Measures Workshop at Five Points Holistic Health!

You’ll learn the 312Doulas Secret & SpinningBabies® for a smoother labor, all of the best coping skills (Acupressure, TENS, positions, and more!), advocacy skills to ensure shared decision making and the evidence for inductions, preventing preventable cesareans, protecting the perineum and more.

Led by Victoria Michonski, CD, CLC, HCHI (1400+ families supported since 2008!).

BONUSES: 1. $50 Motherboard birth planning APP 📝 2. Self-paced Breastfeeding Class by Nancy Mohrbacher 🤱🏾3. $100 off Labor Doula support! 💰

Tap the link in bio to enroll today!

11/20/2025

✨ Making Birth Easier with 312Doulas! ✨
We are thrilled to be teaching the transformative Spinning Babies® Parent Workshop! For 3 hours, you and your birth partner will dive deep into understanding your body and baby’s role in labor.
This workshop, held at Five Points Holistic Health, is all about physiological birth and creating balance for an easier, more comfortable experience. You’ll learn:
* 🔑 The Three Balances℠ for a more relaxed and flexible body.
* 🗺️ Belly Mapping to understand your baby’s position.
* 🤸‍♀️ Daily Essential activities for greater comfort during pregnancy.
* 👶 Techniques to help your baby find the optimal position for birth!
Since 312Doulas started teaching our clients these powerful, evidence-based techniques, we’ve seen birth after birth become FASTER & EASIER! Seriously—these tools give you the confidence and know-how to actively support your labor progress.

Ready to prepare for a smoother, more empowered birth?

➡️ Details & Registration linked in BIO.
🌈 DM us “easy birth” for a 10% discount code

10/29/2025

Ready to signal with urgency in all the neighborhoods of Chicago and beyond - from clinic protection in the ‘90s to the work we do today there is a through line.

09/01/2025

We are excited to share the publication of the first-ever national consensus guidelines for intermittent auscultation (IA) in home and birth center settings, recently published in Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care!

IA is the gold standard for fetal assessment in low-risk pregnancies and is used by midwives at home births and birth centers. But until now, there’s never been a unified national standard — something that has caused variation in practice and confusion in education, quality improvement, and informed choice.

These guidelines are the result of a 21-month consensus process involving midwives, educators, and quality experts from across the country. Together, they created a framework to support safe, consistent, evidence-based care for birthing families.

Big thanks to the co-authors — Silke Akerson, Sarah Bradbury, Rosanna Davis, Amy Romano, Wendy Gordon, and Holly Scholles — and grateful to all the national organizations who helped shape and review this work: American Association of Birth Centers, American College of Nurse-Midwives, National Association of Certified Professional Midwives (NACPM), AWHONN - The Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses, and Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers.

Thanks to funding from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the full article is available open access here - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/birt.70002.

03/19/2025

Today! Speaking on a panel at 1:30 - this conference has been inspiring!

10/18/2024

Repost from
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Doula secrets to ROCK your birth!⁠
First up ☀️The Sunshine Vitamin ☀️⁠
We are obsessed with this study that shows increased pain tolerance in people with higher Vitamin D levels! If unmedicated birth or even delaying an epidural are in your plans, Vitamin D is your new bestie!⁠
Plus healthier babies and birthers. What’s not to love? ⁠
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10/01/2024

What will your power tshirts say?

Bring on the inspiration!

09/12/2024

09/06/2024

Chicagoland people – benefit from decades of Birth experience as Victoria leads this powerful 3 hour workshop - partners will walk away with confidence & hidden insights and skills Victoria Michonski 312 Doulas