Doors are open for our only 2026 cohort of Intentional Birth Pro.
Get trained and certified as a doula, or accelerate your business and your advocacy, through this leading doula mentorship.
Get trained and certified as a doula, or accelerate your business and your advocacy, through this leading doula mentorship.
The intensity of birth work can leave you feeling undervalued, burned out, and lost. While it’s extremely rewarding and joyful, it can be demanding and painful without the right training, tools, and mentorship. You deserve the best support to help you ride the waves.
Intentional Birth Pro equips birth workers in every aspect of birth work, from mastering business strategies to advocating effectively in the birthing room. Join us to gain step-by-step systems for business, advocacy, prenatal work, and birth support. Grow your income, boost your confidence, and discover what is truly possible for your clients in every setting! Transformative support extends far beyond hip squeezes and hot water bottles, and your journey begins here.
“For anyone sitting on the fence—do it. It is so worth it. You get so much more than the cost. The amount of education you receive is incredible… there are an infinite number of resources they provide! You learn so much, and they teach you exactly how to apply it. It’s truly worth the investment.”
DeAnn Stack, 2022 Cohort
As a knowledgeable advocate you can stand for your clients' rights with confidence and collegiality. Get equipped for peaceful, powerful advocacy.
The IBP systems will cut through the overwhelm, and help you build a values-based, sustainable business that you love. Come get our templates, contracts, and formulas for success
Learn how to promote and preserve physiology in every birth setting and circumstance—from doulas who've done it. Let's talk about what's possible
Become an honest guide for your clients as you support them in understanding their values, planning an aligned birth, making grounded decisions, and trusting themselves.
Learn from the pros how to create healthy boundaries, pack a juicy birth bag, manage on-call life, form partnerships, restore after difficult births, and sustain your vision and purpose.
Cultivate a peaceful heart, stay connected to your purpose, and be a bridge of understanding, humanity, and love on the birth team.
How you can apply your personal gifts and skills to birth work. A map for running a sustainable business, one that supports your life and allows you to have lifelong impact on the families you serve.
And the ability to integrate that knowledge into real-world options and care for yourclients.
And what’s legal and what’s not—so you can navigate birth work with confidence and integrity.
That what you’ve witnessed isn’t really okay, and it shouldn’t be this hard.
The skills to advocate clearly and compassionately as a true bridge-builder on the team, even sometimes in the face of trauma, ego, or misinformation.
The ability to lead with humility, honesty, and self-reflection in every aspect of your work.
A powerful community of like-minded women—your birth worker sisters—who will walk beside you, support you, and have your back.
This program will change you from the inside out and revolutionize the way you show up in birth work.
The IBP Core Training was born out of our friendship, which has always been rooted in deep trust, willingness to challenge each other, radical support, a shared hunger for learning, and dark chocolate. It's a rich relationship, and we are inviting you in!
We are seasoned doulas, board-certified patient advocates, mothers, and best friends. We’ve seen each other through birth and death, and are grateful to be at each other’s side through life. We feel wonder every day that we get to do this work together, hold your stories together, mourn with you and laugh with you, and share with you the bounty that birth has taught us.
We’ve mentored hundreds of doulas through Intentional Birth, and since 2013 we’ve supported families in every setting while honing effective systems for birth work, patient advocacy, and business success. We are deeply invested in reducing trauma around birth and in honoring the rites of passage that lead to whole, powerful mothers, fathers, and birth professionals. If you share that commitment, then you are ready to become an Intentional Birth Pro!
You are an experienced doula seeking better systems for business success, for hospital advocacy, or for sustaining your joy in this work.
You are an aspiring doula who is deeply intentional and wants to start off on the right foot.
You want to become a more skilled communicator, a more knowledgeable business-person, and a more connected birth worker.
This program attracts women who are:
If this is the kind of person you want to be—and the kind of people you like to be around—this is your place. We’re striving alongside you, and we’re ready to support you!
The IBP Core Training is designed for doulas who:
If you want personal one-on-one mentorship, community support, and a supportive cohort of like-minded professionals, join the Accelerator waitlist. Your Core Training investment can be applied toward our Accelerator within one year.
“Working with Meredith and Alicia is refreshing. They are very straightforward and honest and don't try to sugar coat anything tough in birth work. They are also really proactive on making sure honest, and evidence based research is in the hands of everyone. I truly realized I had much to learn to make sure my clients were truly informed with every decision that comes their way. They opened my eyes to what a doula practice can look like because they have been successful as business women financially and been able to work with their dream clients!”
2023 Cohort
“IBP was an incredible experience for me. I learned so much about the practical aspects of running a doula business, tips for everything from the first interview to structuring prenatals to keeping records. Boundaries, advocacy, physiology, business, self-care... so many important topics were covered. The Marco Polo groups were my favorite. It gave us a space to discuss what we'd learned and apply it to real situations we were encountering with our clients. We could cheer each other on, support each other, comfort each other. Not to mention the coaching we received from Alicia and Meredith, both in a group setting and 1:1. Absolutely worth every penny.”
2025 Cohort
“Working with Meredith and Alicia is refreshing. They are very straightforward and honest and don't try to sugar coat anything tough in birth work. They are also really proactive on making sure honest, and evidence based research is in the hands of everyone. I truly realized I had much to learn to make sure my clients were truly informed with every decision that comes their way. They opened my eyes to what a doula practice can look like because they have been successful as business women financially and been able to work with their dream clients!”
Christine Frackleton, 2023 Cohort
“IBP was an incredible experience for me. I learned so much about the practical aspects of running a doula business, tips for everything from the first interview to structuring prenatals to keeping records. Boundaries, advocacy, physiology, business, self-care... so many important topics were covered."
Christine Bliven, 2025 Cohort
Many doula trainings focus primarily on comfort measures and stages of labor. We all need these foundations. And they are only a small part of the work! Intentional Birth Pro is structured as comprehensive professional formation.
With the IBP Core Training you will have a depth of knowledge in:
This is not a weekend doula training. The IBP Core Training lasts 4 months, with opportunities for continued learning up to a year and beyond. What sets us apart?
This training prepares you for real births in real situations — and to build a practice that works in real life.
As an optional add-on at checkout, join the IB Community! Here you can expand your learning, ask your questions and, experience real-time support.
This is NOT a dead-end Facebook group. The IB Community exists in our private app and offers weekly live learning experiences: covering niche topics, featuring guest speakers, and debriefing doula experiences. You'll also get access to our comprehensive parent-facing materials, and our community archive! A true treasure trove.
We invite world-class experts for 90-min sessions. You’ll hear from people like Dr. Sarah Buckley on oxytocin, Henci Goer on pain management, Dr.Stu Fishbein on twins, Karen Strange on neonatal resuscitation, Krysta Dancy on birth trauma, or Naseema McElroy on financial investing.
Every month Meredith & Alicia teach a niche training on birth or birth work. Past topics have included: placenta encapsulation, night doula work, crafting a client movement plan, hard conversations, prodromal labor, backup doulas...You get the picture!
This is the heart of the community. We celebrate the good stuff, process the confusing stuff, and work through the hard stuff together. This is the most non-judgmental, encouraging, and loving space, while it also calls us to be self-reflective and true.
Accountability central! We gather to riff on a niche birth business topic, then hot-seat a member’s business so we can hive-mind the challenge together.Finally, we share our goals, what is getting in our way, and how we’re going to move forward.
Right in the IB app, this private space is your opportunity to connect with other intentional pros, ask questions and often get real-time support, share your experiences, and get inspired every day by the good work everyone is doing in their communities!
If you add on the Community, you’ll get personal access to our 20-hour Parent Program, our 200-page parent workbook (for personal use only), our parent-facing Advocacy Program, and our Archive of all past guest masterclasses and community trainings. A literal treasure trove!!
The IBP Core Training covers the full breadth of birth work: it is the in-depth doula training we wish we had when we got started. You’ll enjoy weekly on-demand sessions (for four months) designed to light your path as a skillful, heart-centered doula, a thriving business owner, a physiology-first birth professional, and a confident advocate for your clients.
Let IBP be either the beginning of your grounded, sustainable birth career, or the rekindling of a flame that has been dimmed by burnout, trauma, or the feeling of being ill-equipped for the challenges of birth work. This is the beginning of true transformation for you and your clients!
16 weeks of in-depth training — each week, a new pre-recorded module will be delivered straight to you
250-page workbook, carefully crafted with EVERYTHING we’ve learned in 13+ years of doing things differently
One year access to all materials
The IBP Core Training covers the full breadth of birth work: it is the in-depth doula training we wish we had when we got started. You’ll enjoy weekly on-demand sessions (for four months) designed to light your path as a skillful, heart-centered doula, a thriving business owner, a physiology-first birth professional, and a confident advocate for your clients.
Let IBP be either the beginning of your grounded, sustainable birth career, or the rekindling of a flame that has been dimmed by burnout, trauma, or the feeling of being ill-equipped for the challenges of birth work. This is the beginning of true transformation for you and your clients!
16 weeks of in-depth training — each week, a new pre-recorded module will be delivered straight to you
250-page workbook, carefully crafted with EVERYTHING we’ve learned in 13+ years of doing things differently
One year access to all materials
Additional weekly training and monthly guest masterclass
Written and live opportunities to connect and ask questions
Access to our masterclass archive
Personal access to our parent education programs
Opportunity to certify
Between the Core Training and the Accelerator?
Core Training 16-week curriculum
Digital workbook
No live sessions
No coaching
Your Core Training purchase can be applied toward the Accelerator anytime it is offered, within one year of your Core Training completion date.
Core Training 16-week curriculum
Printed workbook (USA only)
Weekly live group calls
Weekly 1-1 coaching from Alicia, Meredith, or a specialized IBP mentor
Daily access to your cohort + to Meredith and Alicia via video messaging app
Year in IB Growth Community included
Advocacy Training ticket included (minus registration fee)
We deeply believe in you, in your calling, and in the impact you’re meant to have. Whether you’re just beginning or you’ve been walking this path for years, you’re not alone. We’re here for you—now, throughout your journey, and always.
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