BINI Birth

www.binibirth.com Bini is a space for support and education for both new families and birth profess

A Center for education and support for expecting and new families.

04/22/2026

There is still time to register for our next Virtual Birth Doula Training!

From May 1-3, you can join our DONA-approved Virtual Birth Doula Training.

Topics Include:
🫂 The role of the doula
🗣️ Scope of Practice and Code of Conduct for doulas
🖐️ Hands on comfort measures with time for practice and role play
🤰Emotional support during pregnancy and childbirth
🩺 Understanding medications and medical interventions, and how a doula can help
📇How to start your doula business
💞 Working with partners/dads
📑 Navigating the DONA doula certification process

We’re ready to welcome and support you as you begin this exciting journey! Register now through our website.

04/16/2026

One of our latest doula training attendees ☀️🩵

We welcome babies in-arms to our in-person trainings and provide (as you can see) hands-on experience for them as well 😉!

Thank you to .vie.jane for the lovely photos of little Sebastian and to mama .gonzy for allowing us to share them ❤️

Our next Virtual Birth Doula Training is just around the corner, from May 1-3. Register now through our website!

04/12/2026

To know better is to do better. Happy Black Maternal Health Week ❤️

As birth workers, it’s up to us to advocate, acknowledge, and be informed. This week (and every week) we come together to celebrate and support black parents, midwives, doulas, and nurses etc.

Here are some of our favorite people and organizations we want to celebrate this :

Kimberly and Alexa from

Elaine from

And tag more! Let’s support our black birth workers in community ❤️

03/31/2026

Congratulations to our newest group of Bini Birth Doulas 🤍🤍

Every group we train is special and every group has its unique collective energy. This group was so dynamic, energized and loving.

They demonstrated care towards one another, our space, and instructors. Bini is better because of them.

A special thank you for all the notes and emails you sent. You are our why ❤️

03/29/2026

A second generation of doulas ❤️

Katie () trained with us back in 2012 and became a doula, and since then has become busy midwife with

This weekend her daughter Sylvie is in our birth doula training 14 years later ❤️

We are so grateful to each and every one of you who has joined our training, to see these teachings carry on to younger generations is exactly why we do what we do!

03/17/2026

Our founder Ana Paula answering common questions about becoming a doula 🫂

1. Are there any age ‘restrictions’ to become a doula?

Short answer- nope! You can become a doula at any age, whenever you’re ready.

2. Do I need to be a parent to become a doula?

Again, no. While it’s common many doulas begin practicing after their own childbirth experiences, you do not need to have given birth before to become or be a “good” doula. Doulas come from all walks of life!

If you’re interested in becoming a doula and are in the Los Angeles area, our next in-person doula training is coming up with a few spots still available!

Come train with Ana Paula Markel from March 27-29, registration can be found on our website or in our bio.

Not local to Los Angeles or would prefer a virtual training? We have a virtual training coming up from May 1-3!

Embarking on your doula journey can be exciting, intimidating, and everything combined. At Bini we’re here for you every step of the way ❤️

03/08/2026

Happy 🪻💚🪻
Today we celebrate and honor our ancestors and look forward to celebrate our futures!

We honor the quiet strength of the grandmother, the fierce protection of a doula, and the intuitive knowledge that our bodies are sacred. We honor the women who came before us, whose hands held the world together, and whose resilience paved the way for the choices we have today.

At Bini Birth, we believe that respecting the matriarchy means protecting all who mother, lead, and care. Women, trans, non-binary, your wisdom is vital!

In a modern birth system that can feel clinical and dismissive, the role of the doula has never been more vital. We need doulas now more than ever because advocacy is also protection.
Whether it’s navigating medical bias or ensuring enformed consent, a doula makes sure your voice remains the most important in the room.

Today, we celebrate all those who have advocated and protected and all of you today 💗

Images are stills from “All my Babies”

03/04/2026

Reintroducing ourselves - Meet our one and only founder! Ana Paula Markel 💗

She has devoted the past 22 years to expecting and new families, becoming a childbirth educator and birth doula in 2002 after her rich and vastly different personal experiences in childbirth.

Now a certified doula and birth doula trainer through and a childbirth educator and trainer through , she has been a mentor to countless doulas.

Our next In-Person Doula Training with Ana Paula March 27th-29th in Los Angeles, California with room still available!

For Ana Paula, spending three day with new doulas is as invigorating to her today as it was when she first began 💗

02/26/2026

The Scars You Can’t Always See.

For too many, childbirth is a landscape of “doing what you’re told” rather than being heard. Negative birth experiences, ranging from dismissed pain to non-consensual interventions, aren’t just “bad days” at the hospital. They are often the result of deep-seated medical biases that ignore the intuition and the autonomy of the birthing person.

When a birthing person’s pain is minimized or their “no” is ignored, the trauma doesn’t stay in the delivery room. It lives in the nervous system. It lives in the body.

For people of color, this is compounded by centuries of systemic neglect that suggests their bodies are “built to endure” without proper care.

The Remedy? Advocacy & education.

We believe that a safe birth is not just about a healthy baby, but a whole and respected parent.

Knowledge is the first line of defense. When you know the physiology of your body and your legal rights in the room, the “power dynamic” shifts back to you.

🪻A doula is the guardian of your birth plan. We provide the emotional and physical scaffolding to ensure that your voice remains the loudest one in the room, especially when the system tries to mute it.

It is not a suggestion; it is a requirement. We teach you how to demand it.

Landscape by Susana Pilar (pictured here) documents the physical and emotional scars left by medical prejudice during her own childbirth in the Netherlands. It is a haunting reminder that women’s bodies, especially those of color, often bear the traces of a system that fails to be outraged on their behalf.

We are outraged. And we are here to help you navigate a different path.

❤️ Bini

02/08/2026

Ready to take your first step in becoming a certified doula? Join us for our upcoming online Doula Training 💗

When?
- February 20th-22nd via Zoom

Topics Include:
- The role of the doula
- Scope of Practice and Code of Conduct for doulas
- Comfort measures with time for practice
- Emotional support during pregnancy and childbirth
- Understanding medications and medical interventions, and how a doula can help
- How to start your doula business
- Working with partners
- Navigating the DONA certification process

You will also become a part of our Bini-trained doula community group, with monthly meetings to support you in your doula journey 🪻

Register now on our website

01/28/2026

A doula training is so much more than a doula training. We learn, we grow, we challenge ourselves and we bond as humans who want to be part of change.

This group understood the assignment. They were wise, curious, fun and so supportive of one another.
We also had 3 babies who were such important part of our weekend.

Each one teaches one.
Doulas are an important part of the care team of a pregnant person and a huge piece of the solution towards a more inclusive system that will lead towards better and healthier outcomes

It was an honour to welcome you into this sacred work!❤️❤️❤️

01/23/2026

Today we welcome a group of new doulas for our In-Person Doula training! The space is ready you all ❤️

We can’t wait to meet each of you as the 3-day training begins 🥰

Are you interested in becoming a doula? You can sign up for our next virtual or in-person DONA approved doula training via or website or in our bio!

VIRTUAL TRAINING: February 20-22

IN-PERSON TRAINING: March 27-29

More dates available on our website as well

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13743 Riverside Drive
Sherman Oaks, CA
91423

Website

https://linktr.ee/binibirth

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