Choose your path into postpartum work

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Whether you’re just starting out or ready to take this seriously, there’s a clear next step.

Not sure where to begin? Take the 60-second quiz below.

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Foundations

Learn the basics and start supporting families

✓ 6 hours of training

✓ 6 weeks of mentoring and community support

✓ Practical tools and clear scope of practise

→ Start with a live class.

→ Continue to Training when you are ready.

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Training

Develop skills to support a wide range of postpartum needs

✓ 25+ hours of training

✓ Ongoing mentoring and community support

✓ Flexible, self-paced study

→ Start anytime, or join from Foundations.

→ Continue to Certification when you are ready.

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Certification

Professional recognition in 30+ countries

✓ 100+ hours of training and assessments

✓ Ongoing mentoring and community support

✓ Supported client experience

→ Join from Training.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • If you’re curious and just beginning to explore postpartum work, and can commit to the 6 week live class, start with Foundations.

    If you are ready to deepen your skills and knowledge, and want flexible learning with ongoing mentoring, Training is a better fit.

    If you are looking for formal recognition, assessments and supported client hours, Certification is the next step.

  • Yes. All pathways are designed to fit alongside work and family life, and you only need to commit a few hours each week.

    Foundations runs over six weeks with live support.

    Training is more flexible and self-paced, with ongoing mentoring so you can move at your own speed.

    Certification is a bigger commitment and is best suited to those who have already completed Training.

  • Many of our students study for about 2 to 4 hours per week. This includes watching or listening to the self-paced training modules, completing the workbook activities, and attending one facilitated group call.

    Training is our most flexible option, with self-paced modules and ongoing support, so you can take as long as you need.

  • All training modules are self-paced, so you can move through them in your own time.

    Foundations also includes six weeks of live group mentoring. To get the most out of the program it’s important to prioritise attending the live calls.

    Training is more flexible with ongoing mentoring, so you can move through at your own pace.

  • Yes. Payment plans are available at checkout, and you can choose to pay in Australian dollars or US dollars. GST will be added for Australian residents.

Ready to begin?

→ Join Foundations

→ Join Training (most popular)

→ Join Certification

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“I’m grateful for all the support and acceptance that I feel through this course. For me, it was a lot of feeling a really supportive atmosphere with all the teachers, with all the students, during our online sessions and in chats. I’m very grateful for that. I have my first client. During the course, I started to do postpartum work for the first time.”

Iryna Vlasova

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“I gained immense peace from my own postpartum experiences after learning about baby brain and how interrupted it was for me. I really healed from that. In my work, how I communicate with clients is totally different. I speak to them and answer their questions in totally different ways. It takes away my anxiety too because now that I don't feel like I have to be the expert”

Becky Baruth

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“It has given me so much more confidence to now support parents in their breastfeeding journeys. Before, I felt like a fish out of water and had no idea I was holding onto some of my own baggage which I'm sure would have affected my support.”

Georgie Druckmann

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“After 12 months of planting the seeds within my community, building referrals with the careful guidance of your business modules, I can finally enjoy all my hard work.

Now when I do an event like the free postpartum workshop, a mothers group, or recently I also guest spoke at a Calmbirth morning tea, I am just blown away with the women and mothers that are coming along.

They are wonderfully intelligent, hilarious, down to earth mothers who just want the best care and education.

So I suppose what I’m trying to say is your business modules have been fabulous in helping me to ascertain what my special sauce is and how to convey that to my community.

It has worked a treat because now I am working with mothers who want the best for themselves and I’m all about providing it to them.”

 Ayla Judd

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Newborn Mothers

A different approach to postpartum care

Postpartum is often an afterthought. Culturally, we spend so much time preparing for childbirth and we forget that it is just the beginning

When a baby is born, so is a mother.

Families are given information, routines, checklists and rules.

But postpartum is a life-changing transformation, not a problem to be solved.

What mothers need is personalised, meaningful care that aligns with their values:

♡ Traditional, hands-on cultural care including food, rest and warmth

♡ A 21st century village of community and professional support

♡ An understanding of how becoming a parent changes the brain forever

♡ Support that builds confidence, bonding and intuition

♡ Evidence-based information to make their own decisions without pressure or judgement

♡ Recognition of matrescence as a rite of passage, not just a recovery period

Want more details?

→ Learn more about Foundations

→ Learn more about Training (most popular)

→ Learn more about Certification

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What students are saying

“The training has made me feel empowered to find out more and connect with the postpartum village in my region and begin to network”

Kate Reid

“I have found what I want to do with my life, it’s heart centred work, and I am so grateful for this training.”

Asha Holborow

“I have actually secured my first few clients whom are due at the end of this year and im so incredibly humbled and excited to support them on their postpartum journey's.”

Alanah Danielle Iacobaccio

Still not sure?

If you’ve completed the quiz and read through the details, and you still aren’t sure where to start, send us an email.

We are a small team working part time and will respond within a few business days.