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🌟 Become a Certified Birthsmarter Childbirth Educator 🌟

Applications for the Fall/Winter Cohort are open! ➡️ Apply Now 📝

The Birthsmarter Teacher Training + Certification Program is meant to launch a small number of highly-qualified, exemplary educators who are passionate about bringing Birthsmarter's curriculum, values, and mission to their local community via regular, in-person, childbirth education classes in 2026. In order to ensure your preparedness, we promise:

A comprehensive 4-month training program filled with live virtual instruction, self-paced work, a small accountability group, ample practice teaching opportunities, community building, direct access to Caprice Abowitt, Birthsmarter’s Director of Education, and Ashley Brichter, Birthsmarter’s Founder, as well as Birthsmarter's operational and marketing support as you begin teaching.

🤔 Are You Ready to Elevate Childbirth Education in Your Community?💡

The current landscape of childbirth education is failing expectant parents. Mainstream options are often outdated and biased, leaving parents overly prepared for unrealistic scenarios and making them feel that unexpected or unwanted outcomes are a personal failing. Most curriculums over-promise certain results, exclude partners, and transfer information without fostering critical thinking. Worse yet, many childbirth educator training programs don’t actually prepare people to teach—they provide basic birth knowledge but leave educators without a structured curriculum, pedagogical training, or oversight. As a result, new educators are left to piece together their own materials with little guidance, leading to inconsistent and sometimes misleading education for expectant families.

Since 2019, Birthsmarter has been working to improve birth for families and elevate families through birth. We’ve set out on a clear mission of providing unbiased, inclusive, and accessible childbirth education to as many families as possible. We’ve had the privilege of educating over 8,000 expectant parents online and in-person. In the last year alone we trained 12 new Birthsmarter educators and expanded to six new locations.

⏳ Why Now? The Urgency to Make an Impact

With an increasing demand for in-person, evidence-based, and inclusive childbirth education, now is the time to bring Birthsmarter to your community. We’ve worked diligently to craft a training program in which we can share our knowledge and resources to help a small group of dedicated and skilled individuals become exceptional educators and bring Birthsmarter’s paradigm-shifting classes to more communities throughout North America. 🚀

🎯 Who Is This Program For?

This program is ideal for self-motivated, dynamic individuals with experience in birth work, health and wellness, or education who want to:

❌ This is NOT for:

📖 The Birthsmarter Teacher Training & Certification Program

In total, between lectures, meetings, and self-paced work this program will require ~30 hours per month from September '25 through January '26. The program includes:

👩‍🏫 Meet Your Instructors

This program is led by Ashley Brichter and Caprice Abowitt, experienced educators and birth professionals dedicated to transforming childbirth education.

Ashley Brichter is the Founder & CEO of Birthsmarter. Despite her experience with hundreds of families as a birth and postpartum doula, childbirth educator, and lactation counselor  – like so many, her first birth “did not go as planned.” Better for it, she founded Birthsmarter in 2019. An advocate for interdisciplinary understandings of wellbeing, Ashley is a Certified Fair Play Facilitator, speaker and thought leader for pregnancy and parenting, burnout culture, and domestic equity. Ashley sits on the board of ProNatal Fitness.

Caprice Abowitt is the Director of Education for Birthsmarter. Prior to joining Birthsmarter, she was a senior teacher and co-led Teacher Training for the Prenatal Yoga Center, the premier prenatal yoga teacher training program in New York City. She brings an invaluable perspective to perinatal education with over a decade of experience as a certified birth doula, certified yoga instructor, and former professional dancer with a passion for functional movement.

In addition to learning from Ashley and Caprice we’ve curated an incredible cohort of guest lecturers specializing in:

🩺 OBGYN & Midwifery

💪 Pelvic Health

🧠 Maternal Mental Health

🥗 Nutrition

and more…

Our faculty ensures that you receive a comprehensive, interdisciplinary education that prepares you for real-world, client-centered teaching. 🌍

💬 What Past Graduates Are Saying

✨ “This was a truly amazing program and I could not be more happy or grateful! The information exceeded my expectations and I cannot wait to continue this journey… I loved the real-world application of the exam and could not have had a better time during the graduation weekend!” – Dannielle Green

🎉 “[The Certification Program] screamed passion and true dedication to The Work and the community… Also deep concern and interest in our success post-graduation, which then really made me want to honor the material, the message, the brand, and really become part of an ever-expanding constellation 🎉🙏” – Melie Purdon

We asked folks from the 2024 cohort about their highlights, and here’s what they said:

“The range of lectures was incredibly helpful and expanded my knowledge base beyond what I expected.”

“The lectures were above and beyond. Really brilliantly going deep into each area gave such a good and thorough insight into things. I’ve been rewatching them and they’re 👩🏽‍🍳😘.”

“My growth group are amazing humans and I love them.”

“The graduation weekend was the biggest highlight.”

“The weekend intensives were so fun, informative, engaging!”

“Practice teaching during the final weekend was a great experience that helped me feel more solid!”

“Being able to audit classes was also so helpful.”

“The amount of one-on-one access we have to you guys is also such a gift. Feel really lucky to be part of a program that genuinely wants people to be trained well!”

🎁 What You Get as a Certified Birthsmarter Educator

Those in Salt Lake City and Phoenix will have the opportunity to be hired as employees upon graduation. For folks outside of those cities, you will have 12 months of access to:

After your initial 12-months, ongoing certification is renewable every two years for a small fee. 🔄

💰 Investment & Earning Potential

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

What are the attendance and certification requirements?

You must attend all virtual sessions and meetings and complete the self-paced work. If you miss a lecture, you are required to watch the recording before the next session and complete any necessary materials. At the end of the training journey, a final assessment will be given via video submission. The exam is scored as Pass/Fail. If you do not pass, a Birthsmarter team member will schedule an interview to discuss potential certification pathways, if any.

Is travel and accommodation included for the NYC Graduation Weekend?

No, travel to and from Graduation Weekend and accommodations are not included in tuition. We will do our best to help participants find housing wherever we stay. Breakfast, snacks, and lunch are provided throughout the weekend.

What is the cancellation or drop-out policy?

Due to the limited cohort size and personalized attention provided, no refunds will be issued if you decide to leave the program. In cases of true family emergencies, individuals may be able to defer to a future cohort or make up missed time at cost to the facilitators and operating team.

🔥 Ready to transform childbirth education in your community?

⏳ Limited Spots Available – Apply Now!

➡️ Apply Now 📝

Due to the hands-on nature of this program, we are accepting a small cohort of educators on a rolling basis. 📋

🗓️ Application Deadline: July 13th, 2025, at 11:59 PM ET

Additional Questions?

🎥 Check out this recording of a past info-session. We went deep behind the scenes to share details around the who, what, when, where, and why of the program.

For all other inquires, 📧 email caprice@birthsmarter.com