We have a problem. With over 200 doula training organizations providing education of varying lengths and quality, (some more than 200 hours of quality, in-person instruction and some as little as 5 hours of recorded videos), we are seeing doulas practice with varying skillsets and knowledge. Some of these training programs promise their aspiring doulas they will be ‘certified’ at the end of their training program, sometimes for a lifetime. Consequentially, these doulas have varying practice abilities and have no incentive or understanding that further, future education is critical for developing their skillset and knowledge base.

Your DoulaMatch.net profile now allows you the ability to draw your custom service area.

A custom service area allows you to edit the borders of your service area. This is useful if you want to restrict your service area to avoid bridges, tolls, difficult commutes, etc.

DoulaMatch.net exists to make expectant and new parents’ life easier. We want parents to be able to quickly and easily find an available doula who best matches their needs for support, training, certification and cost.

Availability is always first and foremost. It's the reason we excel at what we do. If a doula isn't available for a family's due date, then nothing else matters (their fee, their glowing testimonials, training or certification). Let me tell you our origin story and why we think a doula's availability is the first most important criteria for a good match.

As a doula trainer I'm seeing a sharply increasing trend:  Participants arriving at their workshops carrying trauma from having poor, disengaged and highly dissatisfying experiences with their own doulas. While doulas arriving at their workshops with birth trauma is nothing new, birth trauma because of having had a poor experience with their own birth doula is new and alarming.

We have increased security for both doulas and inquiring clients with a new method for doulas to retrieve clients' contact information.