An Innovative Tool to Structure Prenatal Visits and Strengthen the Doula-Client Connection
You can be among the first to use the EBB My Doula Visit Workbook with your clients! Gift your families this tangible, interactive, and evidence-based guide.
The My Doula Visit Workbook is designed to facilitate conversations, strengthen the doula-client relationship, and support families through the most pressing issues related to pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
Are You Facing These Common Doula Challenges?
- High Induction and Intervention Rates: Unprecedented amounts of pressure to induce and high intervention rates in hospitals.
- Lack of Advocacy & Consent: Providers don’t always see or hear your clients’ concerns, contributing to a lack of informed consent and loss of bodily autonomy.
- Information Overload: Clients struggle to discern facts from fiction when facing “Dr. Google” or “Dr. Tik Tok”.
- New Doula Time Management: Help newer doulas focus their visit time and avoid getting off on tangents, especially during prenatal visits.
- Providing Structure: Offer a tool for more experienced doulas to structure visits and assign clients material to work on when not in the appointment.
Are You Facing These Common Doula Challenges?
- High Induction and Intervention Rates: Unprecedented amounts of pressure to induce and high intervention rates in hospitals.
- Lack of Advocacy & Consent: Providers don’t always see or hear your clients’ concerns, contributing to a lack of informed consent and loss of bodily autonomy.
- Information Overload: Clients struggle to discern facts from fiction when facing “Dr. Google” or “Dr. Tik Tok”.
- New Doula Time Management: Help newer doulas focus their visit time and avoid getting off on tangents, especially during prenatal visits.
- Providing Structure: Offer a tool for more experienced doulas to structure visits and assign clients material to work on when not in the appointment.
Why the EBB Workbook is the New Gold Standard for Doula-Client Education
Why the EBB Workbook is the New Gold Standard for Doula-Client Education
Unmatched Evidence Based Resources
Unlike other workbooks, this comprehensive guide integrates EBB’s podcast episodes and best evidence handouts. One doula told us the EBB one-page materials are “like gold in the birth world,” noting that having them compiled in one workbook sets this guide above any other resource.
Advocacy Woven Throughout
Advocacy is woven throughout the entire prenatal visit curriculum. The workbook covers essential topics such as informed consent, bodily autonomy, and setting boundaries. It also addresses the fawning response and provides practical tips on how to deal with fear tactics, pressure, and coercion.
Flexibility & Support
This is a tool for you to use how you see fit! The workbook is not a set-in-stone curriculum– doulas will still design their own prenatal visit flow and bring their unique personality, skills, experience, and presence to prenatal visits. What this workbook does is make your job easier by ensuring crucial information is delivered along the prenatal visit journey.
Tangible & Attractive
The workbook is colorful, filled with graphics, and includes EBB-designed worksheets and real-life photographs. One doula told us this workbook gives “Start of the New Year” goal-setting energy. Your clients will love flipping through their workbook and filling out the worksheets and journaling sections with their favorite pen!
My Doula Visit Workbook Curriculum
Suggested Visit Structure
Visit 1: Building Your Team
Goals: Feel validated and seen, experience lowered anxiety, and feel more confident.
- Journaling space to emotionally process this pregnancy and any prior births or losses
- Discussion of dreams, goals, fears, and anxieties
- Talk about provider and birth setting, including statistics, hospital policies, and birth options
- Interactive fear releasing activity and demonstration of comfort measures for pregnancy
Visit 2: Birth Planning and Advocacy
Goals: Know more about birth interventions, be prepared to make a birth plan, and feel confident in asserting rights to informed consent and refusal.
- Educational Q & A’s about birth planning and open-ended questions about client’s goals for birth
- Information on informed consent, bodily autonomy, and the BRAIN/BRAND acronyms
- Detailed EBB “Intervention Worksheets”
- Birth Plan templates and worksheets
Visit 3: Comfort Measures and Advocacy
Goals: Build a comfort measures toolkit, practice skills with partners, and feel confident in support during labor.
- Brainstorm the client’s comfort measures toolkit
- Labor rehearsal flowsheet
- Partner cheat sheet for labor
- Photo spread of labor and birth positions
- Two pages about medical pain management, including detailed info on the evidence on epidurals
Visit 4: Induction
Goals: Understand more about the reasons for induction, options during an induction, and how to advocate for yourself.
- Q & A about inductions and the evidence on different reasons for induction
- Discussion questions about inductions in your local hospitals
- Cheat sheets on induction steps and induction medications and procedures
- Questions to ask if your provider recommends an induction
- Tips for undergoing an induction and extra space for the clients to take notes from doula
Visit 5: Cesarean
Goals: Understand more about birth plan options for Cesareans, how to get family-centered care during a Cesarean, and tips for recovery
- Informational Q & A about Cesareans and various reasons for Cesareans
- Questions to ask your provider during prenatal appointments about their Cesarean practices
- Cheat sheet for Cesarean Birth Options and comfort measures during a Cesarean
- What to expect during and after a Cesarean, including unique recovery issues
- Advocacy tips and space to take notes on the doula’s insider info about Cesareans
Visit 6: Postpartum Planning
Goals: Know more about recovery, lactation, newborn care; draft postpartum care plan; assemble a support team.
- Evidence-based info on newborn procedures including Vitamin K, erythromycin eye ointment, and circumcision
- Comprehensive postpartum recovery worksheets on physical recovery, rest, nutritional health, relationship recovery, and emotional recovery
- Graphics illustrating warning signs to look out for postpartum
- Q & A about infant feeding and care, along with space to take notes from doula about infant feeding
- Baby plan template and lactation/infant feeding worksheet
Visit 7: Doula Check-in Postpartum
Goals: Provide space for journaling about the birth experience, validation, and reflection.
- Space for the client and their partner to journal about their birth experience
- Open-ended reflection questions for doula and client
- Space to take notes and record the doula’s observations– to help fill in gaps in the client’s birth story
Evidence Based Birth® Handouts
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Appendix
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Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (total of 4 copies: 2 for the birthing person and 2 for the partner)
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Fear Releasing Activities (3 options)
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Birth Plan Worksheets (Spontaneous Labor, Induced Labor, and Cesarean)
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Baby Plan Worksheet (includes infant feeding intentions)
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Sign to Hang on Fridge for Postpartum Visitors
Designed to Guide
Every Conversation
Additional Features Include:
- Digital access to a password-protected webpage with exclusive videos, tools, and podcast playlists.
- Dedicated pages for clients and their partners to process dreams, fears, prior births, and previous losses.
- Cheat sheets on Partner Support, Induction Steps, Induction Medications & Procedures, and Cesarean Options.
- Informed consent and advocacy tips included in every section.
- Checklists of suggested EBB handouts for your clients to read in between each prenatal visit.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
I see that the workbook has a curriculum for 6 prenatal visits, but I only do 2 or 3. Can this workbook still be helpful for me?
We know that in the past, many doulas only had 2 or 3 prenatal visits with their clients. However, trends are shifting, and some doulas are scheduling as many as 8-10 prenatal visits with their clients, particularly for clients on state Medicaid plans that cover doula prenatal visits.
On page 6 of your workbook there is a chart for you to talk with your client about your unique structure and flow of prenatal visits. Most doulas provide the “Birth Planning” and “Comfort Measures” visit in person. You might want to add a virtual visit to cover one or two of the other topics, or you could suggest that your client self-study the sections that are not covered in person (and then cover any follow-up questions in person later).
Will there be a digital version?
As this is a brand new physical product, we do not yet have a digital version. Please stay tuned for later in 2026, when we will announce a special digital option for Evidence Based Birth® Instructors. If you are not an EBB Instructor, you can get on the 2026 Instructor waitlist here. Instructor applications typically open each May.
Do you ship internationally?
- Canada: 1 workbook ($25 USD), 5 workbooks ($35 USD), 10 workbooks ($42 USD), 20 workbooks ($63 USD)
- Rest of the world (wherever Fedex can operate): 1 workbook ($34 USD), 5 workbooks ($62 USD), 10 workbooks ($80 USD), 20 workbooks ($118 USD).
What is the price for the workbook?
Each workbook is $35, and you’ll save when you purchase in bulk packs of 5 for $169, 10 for $336, or 20 for $665.
Can I get a discount for purchasing in bulk?
Yes, you can get 3% off if you purchase a pack of 5 workbooks, 4% off if you purchase a pack of 10, and 5% off a pack of 20 (which ends up getting you one free workbook!).
Can I use this workbook in a childbirth class?
No, this workbook is not designed for a childbirth education class, and we do not permit the use of this workbook in a childbirth education program. Only EBB Instructors are licensed to teach and sell EBB Childbirth Classes. You can learn more about the official EBB Childbirth Class here, and you can get on the wait list to become an EBB Instructor here.