~~Trainings and Services
DHEDE
TRAINER FOR CHILDBIRTH EDUCATION AND DOULA TRAINING
The Trainer for the Childbirth and doula Training are a training program formed by Istanbul Birth Academy in the year 2012. It is aimed that the participants become experienced and competent in 2 different branches at the end of the training.
1. The Childbirth Trainer: It is aimed to be able to form the training groups for the preparation to birth with a positive language and in company with their medical information based on the international proof according to the participant from every section and to be able to manage them.
2. Doula: It is targeted that they give an extra juridical and uninterrupted support with no comment to the families and the health employees in every kind of births.
The training consists of 8 different modules. A Basic Birth Information Module had been/was added for the participants out of health employees.
Every participant makes her trainings for the preparation to the first birth in company with the supervision and in leadership of the experienced trainers besides it. The experience is transferred one-to-one thanks to it.
Also every participant enters into 2-4 births in company with the supervision according to her occupation and gains the birth experience.
The wished psychologist participants deserve the Birth Psychotherapist title by completing the additional modules.
4 different groups had completed their trainings until today and some had taken their diplomas, the rest of them waits/looks for/expects to complete their practical applications.
Our grads had started to spread the Philosophies of the Birth with no Regret according to their occupations in their own regions as much as they could, to give trainings for the healthy and peaceful births in their environments and started to support the families. The philosophies of the Birth with no Regret (were) started to be spread even to the remotest villages of us thanks to it.
DHEDE training is recognized by Lamaze International, Active Birth, HypnoBirthing, APPPAH, ISPPM, some of the organizations known internationally.
Our trainings shall continue with 2 new groups in the new training season. You can examine the Training Regulations and the Ethical Rules in this part and make your preliminary records with the forms in the communication part.
 
Training Regulations
ISTANBUL BIRTH ACADEMY (İDA)
THE REGULATIONS OF THE TRAINER FOR THE CHILDBIRTH EDUCATION AND THE DOULA PROGRAM ( DHEDE)
(Official certified-applied training by Lamaze International and Active Birth Centre)
Course Comments...
Our works for the Doula Training and the Certified Childbirth Trainer started in December 2012. 85 students of us completed their modules in 4 different groups until today.  The ones finished our trainings continued for 9 months 10 days already started to create any difference in the institutions where they work at and to serve to the mothers with their applications. 4 persons of our grads opened their own places in order to serve to the families in Istanbul and Izmir. Our birth specialists entered in the list of the preferred doctors with their approaches to the natural births in their environments. The same groups continue to improve themselves by establishing the training groups and entering into the births in company with the supervision beside their trainings. Each shall be spreading the philosophies of THE BIRTH WITH NO REGRET in the places where they will open privately or in their own institutions next year.
 
TRAINING REGULATIONS
They shall be able to get the Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator certificate after they also performed some conditions when they completed the course as the course is also known by Lamaze International.
 
TARGET
-To ensure/allow the trainers who will be charged in training of the families and pregnant get ready to the birth consciously, physically, mentally and spiritually to grow at standard and international level by separating from ‘’the Trainings for the Preparation to the Birth’’ from the Pregnant Trainings in Turkey.
-Ability for the wished ones of these trainers to serve as the birth assistant-doula.
-Preparation to “the Births with No Regret" whatever the birth’s way is.
 
AIMS
• Making the couching for the preparation to the birth a standard training,
• That DHEDE will execute its occupation by believing in the human, baby, male and female, birth integrally,
• To improve conscious trainers emotionally, mentally and physically at DHE,
• To allow DHEDE to be able to arrange the active courses in home and abroad alone or  together with different trainers’ ecoles (such as doctor-midwife, midwife-doula, doctor-psychologist, psychologist-yoga trainer),
• Recognition and improvement of DHEDE as an occupation,
• Growing of the trainers to give trainings at IDA and its branches,
• Training of the specialists to work as doula at IDA, hospitals or the private sector,
• Growing of the Pregnant and Birth Therapists with the Additional works.
 
PARTICIPATION CONDITIONS
• IDA opens its doors with the same affection to everybody who wants to participate in formation of the new generations full of affection, respect and ‘’with no regret’’.
• There are separate training modules for the ones in the health field and the ones out of the health field in the training technically.
• The Ones in the Health Field: Doctor, Obstetrician, midwife, nurse etc.
• The Ones out of Health Field:  The psychologist, yoga-pilates trainer, birth assistants (doula), baby and child improvement specialists and others (The trainings more or different than the others according to their trainings in the past may be demanded for the participants in this ‘others’ position. IDA shall decide on it according to the person)
• Criterions to be the Pregnant and Birth Psychologist; to graduate from Psychology, Psychological counselling bachelor’s degree, psychiyatry and to be in training or graduate from psychodrama, expressive and art therapies, family therapy and/or gestalt therapy training.
 
 
PERIOD OF TRAINING (9 MONTHS 10 DAYS)
The training’s period changes according to the participants’ graduation fields.
A standard training period is 1 training year (9 months 10 days).
The Training Module of the Basic Birth Information (see training module) should be completed for the ones who are not in the health field.
 
TRAINING’S PAYMENT CONDITIONS
• The charges/fees of DHEDE are announced at the beginning of the training year.
• There are 2 different payments as the module fees and individual supervisors during training.
• The training fee can be paid in instalments during participation in the modules or in cash annually. The fees of the trainings where the participant could not participate in are collected and it is considered that the participant is at training.
• The invoice shall be prepared in the name of the institution for the participants whose trainings are covered by the institutions.
 
TRAINING HOURS
 
 
• Weekend group two days Saturday-Sunday (Saturday:10.00-18.00 Sunday 10.00-14.00 = 12 training hour)
• Weekdays group two days (Thursday: 10:00-18:00   Friday:10:00- 14:00)
• The annual lesson program is announced at the beginning of the lesson year. It becomes definite previously that which training module will be made on which date, the participants are required to be planned according to it
• The attendance is obligatory. The student herself is responsible for compensation of the modules lost by her. It is obligatory for her to complete the deficient modules that she could not enter by following them next year. It is conditional to complete all training modules and applications in order to take the graduation modules and applications.
 
 
 
OBLIGATORY OPTIONAL MODULES
• To participate in or to make a presentation in one of the congresses in home and abroad,
• To participate in the courses for the preparation to the birth such as the active birth, re-birthing, hypno birthing or one of the international courses that will be arranged by IDA.
REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATIONS
The theoretical, practical and writing criterions that their details will be found below by you should be completed.
THEORETICAL CRITERIONS
1-Completion of the training modules determined in details above,
2- To participate in one of the trainings for the preparation to the birth arranged by IDA,
3- TRAINING SUPERVISION: It is to arrange and to manage the program for Preparation to the birth with No Regret consisting of 4 lessons of 3 hours and (12 single and 6 couples) without conducting any profit aim (she/he can divide only the place’s rent and supervision fees among the participants in the way also including him/her. It is necessary to take an individual supervision after every group lesson. Thus every lesson shall be evaluated and prepared to the next lesson. The group dynamics shall also be able to be considered at subjects such as the difficulties experienced while managing the group in the lessons, the stubborn group members, hard questions, etc. The block lessons and the lessons spread to all weekend are not suggested to the supervision group.

PRACTICAL CRITERIONS,
1- It is necessary/obligatory for the ones from the health field to participate in 2 births, for the others to participate in 4 births personally. The student personally enters into the half of these births as the observer together with our own trainer midwife, into the other half of the birth with the midwife found by her/him (condition to be had trained is required). (The case of the participants from outside of city is evaluated separately.)
2- BIRTH SUPERVISION: She/He gets individual supervision (consultancy) from IDA’s trainers after every birth where she entered in. (The conversation via internet such as Skype shall be valid for this aim for the participants from outside of city) The participant takes support at subject that what can be made differently by explaining all psychological, medical, non-pharmacologic supports made by her/him during the birth and gets ready for the next birth practice. She/He watches all what the midwife did if she/he entered into the birth together with the midwife as the trainee and writes them into the Follow-up Form. He/She takes suggestions at subject that which fields of her she/he should improve more. He/She is expected to change and to improve the suggestions taken by him/her following the supervision after every birth practice to change and to improve in the next birth. He/she also takes an evaluation from the doctor whom she/he works with and the family. All forms shall be given by IDA.
 
WRITING CRITERIONS
The participant can decide on one of the following options for the writing criterions:
1- To write an article related to the training for the preparation to birth.
2- To prepare the summary of one of the books suggested by IDA.
3- To gain a foreign article related to the training for the preparation to birth into Turkish and to prepare the comment page.
4- To design, to manage a research related to the training for the preparation to the birth or to give active individual support in a going-on scientific study.
As the participant might/can decide about his/her own field, he/she can also be directed by the trainers of IDA.
COMPLETION PERIOD OF MODULES
The modules can be spread in time in order to be finished in 2 years at maximum when/if necessary. Any certification and document shall not be given before all of the modules and practical applications. The participants who did not perform these obligations also participate in the diploma ceremony. The symbolic diploma is given to everybody in the ceremony. The ceremony is a ritual part of the training, it is open to the friends and family of the participant. A competence document that is valid internationally is given to who finished all criterions.
The trainees cannot manage the Program for the ChildBirth Trainer before they completed all modules and the training’s requirements. The persons gave ‘’the pregnant and birth trainings’ anyway should share the trainings should share the trainings’ contents and announcements with the management of IDA previously. In opposite cases the person is warned in writing firstly, she/he is ejected from the program in case it continues.
It is not ethic nor professional to open and to manage the programs for the preparation to the birth in the institutions where they work at or in any other place before opening the groups of trainees with supervision while the program is going on. She is discharged from IDA in case she continues in spite of warning.
It is important for the ones who manage the Training groups for the Preparation to the Birth with No Regret not to bring their basic occupations (doctor, midwife, psychologist) or a different technique into the forefront, to determine that the trainings for the preparation to the birth are a separate professionalism.
CANCELLATION AND NON-ATTENDANCE RULES
50 % of the fee is paid back in the cancellations that are one week before the training’s dates, of the ones who enrolled definitely. The fee cannot be returned in the cancellations in the same week or in the same day. This rule is also valid for the cases such as health or assignment.
 
CERTIFICATION
She/he entitles to take the Doula sufficiency certificate and the Trainer’s certificate for Childbirth Trainer by Istanbul Birth Academy also known Lamaze International and by Active Birth Centre by certification of IDA as she/he completed all criterions for DHEDE. This certificate shall be arranged both in English and in Turkish. The training program is also in conformity with the certification program that is being process of formed by the Ministry of Health.
Istanbul Birth Academy has the right to make every kind of changes and addition in the content of the regulations of DHEDE. The managers of IDA shall decide on the last decision on the students’ graduations.