About The SBD® Doula

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The stillbirthday doula supports families:

- experiencing birth
- enduring bereavement
- facing any event where birth & bereavement may meet

Our SBD Doula informational website can be accessed at the link you prefer

through www.stillbirthday.info or through www.theSBDvow.com

This means, that while there may be insufficient recognition of bereavement support from a traditional birth doula, the reverse is absolutely not true: knowing how to support in bereavement well, the stillbirthday doula also supports families well during birth.

Our stillbirthday doulas know this as second nature:

stillbirthday doulas, are birth doulas

Stillbirthday doulas (SBD® Doulas) can support families experiencing:

birth in any trimester, and in any outcome
unconventional loss, which may include adoption or surrogacy
NICU care
“rainbow” subsequent live birth
full term, uncomplicated, live birth with no connection in any way to bereavement
newborn nutrition and lactation options
and more

Benefits of Birth Doula Support

Doulas supplement (not replace) medical support to provide the following:

reduces overall Cesarean birth rate 50%
reduces the length of labor 25%
reduces Pitocin use 40%
reduces the need for forceps delivery 40
reduces requests for epidural pain relief 60% (source)for more information, read: The Invaluable Birth & Bereavement Doula

Connect with Your SBD Doula®!

You can view our listing of credentialed stillbirthday doulas, and interview one today. Hiring your local SBD doula for your upcoming, joyous and beautiful birth experience is a great way to support the families in your community who endure the devastation of pregnancy and infant loss and utilize the services of your SBD doula, who often provides such service in your community for a dramatically sliding scale or an entirely pro-bono volunteer basis.

Discover what the SBD credentialed doula has achieved.

Become an SBD Doula®!

We believe that every mother ought to have the informed right to include a Birth & Bereavement Doula® at her birth! If you have an interest in learning more about pregnancy, birth, bereavement and postpartum, this class is right for you! You do not need any personal or professional experience, though we do have students of all backgrounds — doctors, nurses, social workers, mothers, yes even fathers — all learning together in this collegiate level course offering nursing contact hours as well!

You can join in on this training

for enrichment (with no background or with an undecided goal yet),
to become a doula as a paid hobby,
to only serve in known pregnancy and infant loss situations,
to primarily serve live birth clients (and gain bereavement skills as a “just in case”),
to learn how to incorporate an SBD Doula into your healthcare or other professional team, and/or
to improve on your already established professional role

Join the stillbirthday doula program!

BIRTH & BEREAVEMENT QUOTES

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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

I am strong.

— January, founder of Birth Without Fear

When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.

— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

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BECOME A DOULA!

Enroll now in the Birth & Bereavement Doula® program!

We onboard enrolled students into the program by email invitation.

After tuition, you can email heidi.faith@stillbirthday.com directly to expedite this step. Alternatively, if you prefer fb communications, you can join us in Admissions.