Data Driven Doula
593 pages. Five units, twenty-one chapters. The complete training manual for birth doulas. Sold through Mary’s Hands Network.
$59.99 paperback
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593 pages. Five units, twenty-one chapters. The complete training manual for birth doulas. Sold through Mary’s Hands Network.
$59.99 paperback
A chapter-for-chapter active-practice partner to the textbook. Vocabulary review, anatomy and physiology drills, discussion questions with full writing space, and a 10-question quiz per chapter.
$29.99 paperback
For families
Pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum — the friend you wish you had by your side.
$29.99
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Specialty training · Course materials
Textbook and companion workbook, both required for the 16-CEU specialty certification.
$24.99 textbook · $19.99 workbook
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For trainers & educators
The instructor’s manual for teaching the collaborative birth model — written for the people who run the training, not the people taking it.
$19.99 paperback
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Comfort techniques for labor
50 comfort cards. Pick your version: physical deck, pro-size deck, paperback booklet, or the free Mini Pocket Doula quiz.
From $9.99 · plus a free quiz
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A Community Health Worker training program, with an instructor guide and a student guide to match. Same approach as the doula curriculum: evidence first, written for real people doing the work.
Two for families building their birth vision; one for doulas and educators practicing the work.
Take a 10-question Birth Vision Quiz and walk away with your custom 12-card Mini Pocket Doula deck — print and use them free for your hospital bag.
Take the quiz 60+ minutesAn in-depth guide through the decisions you'll make throughout your perinatal journey, with the evidence and education behind every choice. Walk away with a custom PDF birth guide for your provider.
Open the Navigator For doulas & educatorsA dice-driven doula training simulator. Roll for a client, walk her through pregnancy, labor, birth and postpartum, and practice BRAIN and presence against every kind of birth story.
Roll the diceI am Executive Director and lead instructor at Mary’s Hands Network, the ICEA-approved community doula program I founded in 2023. Every book here is taught in my cohorts first: 276 doulas trained so far, and counting.
Pick the book you’re curious about and I will email you a sample chapter, so you can read the voice and decide for yourself.
Bulk orders come with a discount and direct shipping. Get in touch and I will set you up with a books.by bulk-order link priced for your order size, plus shipping we sort out directly. Works for doula training cohorts, hospital staff trainings, university programs, and gift-shop stocking.
Birth doula training manual

Five units, 21 chapters, 593 pages.
Plus: 331-term master glossary · 210-question quiz bank · APA 7 bibliography (142 references) · equity-centered scripts and case studies throughout.
Active-practice partner

Twenty-one chapters mirror the textbook chapter for chapter.
Pairs with Data Driven Doula textbook.
For families

Pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum — the friend you wish you had by your side.
A complete pregnancy-through-postpartum guide for families, written in the voice of a doula who has stood at thousands of bedsides. Evidence-based, warm, and honest about the hard parts.
ISBN: 979-89-03363-05-6
Specialty training · Course materials

The course materials for the 16-CEU ICEA-approved bereavement doula specialty. Textbook $24.99, companion workbook $19.99. Both are required for the certification.
The textbook: Grief frameworks applied at the bedside · clinical communication scripts for the worst moments · bereavement protocols across hospital, birth center, and home. Built with morticians, OBs, social workers, and L&D + NICU nurses.
The Companion Workbook: Open-ended reflection prompts · honest self-assessment · case studies drawn from real practice (stillbirth, NICU loss, TFMR, infant death).
ISBNs: Textbook 979-89-03103-82-9 · Workbook 979-89-03103-91-1
Comfort techniques for labor

Mini Pocket Doula — free 10-question quiz, 12 custom cards as a printable PDF.
Booklet — $9.99 paperback, all 50 techniques in one slim book.
Standard Deck — $40, 50 physical cards in a slim metal tin.
Pro Deck — $100, pro-size cards built for daily professional use.
Or try the free quiz first.