About Us
What is our mission?
BDI is dedicated to train and certify eligible doulas with excellence through a hands-on interactive approach.
Because at BDI, we believe that no mother should labor alone.
Our mission is to make the certification process as clear and as simple as possible so that you can earn your certification, and begin impacting lives.
Our Story
Giving birth is a miraculous, life-changing moment, but for a laboring mother, it could also be isolating, frightening and overwhelming.
The role of a doula is to provide physical and emotional support while being able to inform and empower the mother.
The quick spread of COVID-19, and the resulting hospital restrictions, made it impossible for some mothers to be accompanied by their doula as they gave birth. New hospital regulations require all doulas to have certification to be present at the birth.
Birth Doulas International (BDI) began in the wake of these stressful times, to provide new doulas, and already experienced doulas, with the certification necessary for them to be able to meet the hospital standards.
Doulas Make a Difference—
Moms who had a doula at their birth had
28% fewer cesareans
9% drop in pain medication
34% fewer negative birth experiences
31% less use of Pitocin
12% more spontaneous vaginal births
40 minutes shorter labor
Higher APGAR scores*
*Cochrane systematic review, 2013