Do it With a Doula

 A 12 week birth preparation course for expectant parents, with Nia & Joanna

Do It With a Doula is a comprehensive, doula-led birth preparation course for expectant mothers and birth partners in the ’t Gooi region, serving Hilversum, Bussum, and surrounding towns. The course supports parents through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.

Meeting weekly across 12 weeks, the course weaves together practical birth education, embodied movement (mindful yoga, mobility, breathwork, and gentle positioning and balance practices inspired by evidence-informed approaches such as Spinning Babies®), birth mindset exploration, and intentional community building.

Birth partners are actively included and supported throughout the course, with dedicated sessions focused on confidence, communication, and emotional preparation.

Led by two certified birth doulas with international backgrounds and deep integration in the Dutch healthcare system, this course offers objective, non-dogmatic guidance for hospital, home, and birth center births—supporting autonomy, informed choice, and connection.

What Can You Expect to Gain?

  • Confidence in your birth mindset and decision-making

  • Strength, nourishment, and recovery through embodied movement

  • A sense of connection and support with other expectant parents

  • Active involvement and confidence for birth partners

  • Practical tools for labour and postpartum (breathing, mindset, self-care)

  • Clear understanding of the doula role and your wider birth team

  • Preparation for medical scenarios with steadiness and flexibility

  • Space to explore tender themes such as transformation, grief, and the birth of a mother

  • Stronger connections—with yourself, your partner, and your community

Course Breakdown

  • 12 weekly sessions designed to grow with you as pregnancy unfolds:

    • Gentle exploration of your birth mindset

    • Embodied movement in every session

    • A strong focus on connection and community

    • Partner involvement in 8/12 sessions, plus one dedicated partner-only session

    • Practical, take-home tools for labour and postpartum

    • Insight into the role of a birth doula and how this can enhance your experience

    • Thoughtful preparation for the postpartum period

  • We are Joanna and Nia, two doulas who believe that meaningful birth preparation requires time, presence, and relationship.

    Between us, we bring years of experience supporting families through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum—both practically and in deeply human ways.

    Our work is rooted in embodied learning, evidence-based information, and the understanding that birth is shaped not only by the body, but also by the nervous system, relationships, and environment.

    We created this course after seeing the same need again and again: parents wanting more than a one-off class—craving continuity, space to ask real questions, to move, to feel, and to connect with others walking a similar path.

  • We are two certified birth doulas who:

    • Specialise in postpartum care and embodied preparation for birth, integrating movement, breath, yoga and body awareness

    • Integrate positioning, balance, and awareness practices informed by evidence-based approaches such as Spinning Babies®

    • Support hospital, home, and birth centre births with a balanced, objective approach

    • Work as independent advocates, centred on the wellbeing of mother, partner, and baby

    • Are deeply familiar with the Dutch system while bringing international perspectives

    • Honour birth as both a physiological process and, for many, a rite of passage

    Learning is designed to be easy to digest, revisited, and embodied over time, with practices you can continue at home. Just as importantly, this is a space for community—where relationships form and the foundations of your village begin to take shape.

  • 📆 start on 29.03 - 05.07 (breaks scheduled)
    ⏰ every Sunday, 15:30 - 17:30
    📍 Piith, Bussum
    📣 English
    👥 Maximum 6 couples

    💸 €695 Early Bird rate available for all registrations made before 8 March. 

    €745 per couple, €645 per solo participant. 

    Payment plans available.

    🫶🏽 All parents are welcome. If you don’t have a birth partner, please feel welcome.
    🤰🏽Ideally between 14–28 weeks of pregnancy

  • Body & Birth

    • Physiology of birth

    • Pelvic floor balance

    • Comfort measures & relaxation

    Mindset & Transition

    • Birth mindset

    • Motherhood

    • Life after birth

    Support & Navigation

    • Your birth team

    • Planning & communication

    • Partner-only session

    Practical Realities

    • Medical scenarios

    • Hospital preparation, postpartum & feeding

Leave Feeling…

  • Calm, grounded, and physically supported

  • Less overwhelmed, having learned at a gentle, embodied pace

  • Trusting of yourself, your baby, and the journey ahead

  • Clear about your values, boundaries, and choices

  • Seen, supported, and connected—part of a growing village

  • Equipped with tools you can return to at home for regulation and comfort

Prepared for birth with flexibility, steadiness, and self-awareness

Ready to start your journey? Enquire now.