Continuing Education for Community Perinatal Doulas

Born Again Academy offers continuing education (CE) topics to strengthen safe, scope-appropriate, compassionate support across pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. These CE topics are designed for Community Perinatal Doulas and support professional growth and certification maintenance.

Typical CEUs per topic

Most CE topics are designed to be completed in approximately 1.5 to 2.0 CEUs (estimated time-on-task).

CE format and time-on-task estimate

Our CE format is consistent across lessons and typically includes a lecture component, a quiz, a practice activity or worksheet, and required reading when assigned. CEUs are based on estimated time to complete required learning activities. Quiz time includes time to review and look up information as needed for new content.

Scope and posture

All CE content reinforces a non-clinical, safety-first doula posture. We emphasize role clarity, respectful support, informed choice conversations, and appropriate referral and escalation within scope. We teach from a Christian framework while remaining sensitive to client preferences and committed to serving families with dignity and respect.

CEUs and certification renewal

This page is a general overview of continuing education topics. Certificants should refer to their certifying organization’s recertification requirements for details on CEU totals, renewal timeframes, eligible topics, and documentation submission. Born Again Academy certified Community Perinatal Doulas can find these details on our Recertification page, under CEU requirements.

Community Perinatal Health CEU Collection

This CEU collection is designed to equip community perinatal doulas with practical, scope-safe skills for supporting families whose pregnancy and postpartum experiences are shaped by home realities, culture, language, and community systems. You will learn how to strengthen continuity of care through clear communication, health information support that makes sense to the client, and respectful navigation of client rights and advocacy within appropriate boundaries. Training includes culture and language awareness, core doula communication skills, and a clear, protective posture for serving vulnerable clients, including mandatory reporting basics. Throughout the collection, you will build trauma-informed care instincts by recognizing the impact of birth trauma and applying supportive, dignity-centered approaches that reduce avoidable harm while maintaining non-medical role clarity.

Birth Doula CEU Collection

This CEU collection is designed to equip community perinatal doulas with advanced knowledge and skills in providing continuous non-medical labor support with confidence, calm, and clear professional boundaries. You will learn how to offer hands-on comfort measures and coping support, practice respectful, client-centered communication (including active listening and navigating the dynamics between the birthing family, medical staff, and support team), and guide families through informed choice conversations and birth planning using simple decision-making tools. Along the way, you will build trauma-informed support instincts (including birth debrief awareness and minimizing harm), develop high-risk awareness and escalation judgment (such as preeclampsia awareness and when to refer), and learn clean documentation habits that support professionalism and continuity of care.

Postpartum Doula CEU Collection

This CEU collection is designed to equip community perinatal doulas with advanced knowledge and skills in supporting a mother’s recovery and protecting rest in the tender weeks after birth through practical, compassionate, non-medical care. You will learn how to provide a recovery-centered postpartum visit, use trauma-informed and client-centered communication for gentle birth debriefing, and recognize when concerns require timely escalation. Training includes postpartum mental health awareness and screening-minded support (including common perinatal mood and anxiety concerns), urgent maternal warning signs, and lactation anticipatory guidance at a basic level, with a clear referral posture when needs exceed scope. You will also learn to support families facing NICU realities with calm presence, resource navigation, and respectful coordination of follow-up care.

Lactation CEU Collection

These continuing education topics prepare doulas to provide clear, evidence-based education about breastfeeding and early infant feeding while remaining within a non-clinical support role. Students learn how to give anticipatory guidance about the first two weeks of breastfeeding, explain core latch and positioning principles, describe common feeding patterns throughout the first year, and teach practical newborn feeding basics such as milk storage, simple supplies, and bottle practices that support breastfeeding. Emphasis is placed on using accurate, supportive language, recognizing when feeding challenges require skilled lactation support, and confidently guiding families to appropriate professionals when concerns arise. 

CEU Certifications and Documentation

Recordkeeping

Born Again Academy maintains CE completion records for at least 6 years from the date of completion. Records include the participant name, CE topic title, CEUs awarded, and completion date. If a participant needs a replacement certificate within the record retention period, the academy can re-issue it when identity is confirmed.

Using CEUs for certification renewal

CEUs are typically submitted at the time of certification renewal. Participants should keep copies of all CE certificates and submit them according to the renewal instructions for their certification.