Birth Doula

 I hope to be able to add to my name a new title soon. Birth Doula/Breastfeeding Counselor. Sounds pretty good right? I think so and I am very happy to start this journey in my life, to be able to do something I love and can put my full heart into doing. I choose to start online classes through Childbirth International with some reccommendations from friends and a local doula here. I had been looking into doula classes for about a year now and this one seems to offer the best of everything, it isn't too short so I know I will be very well prepared once I am done with school not only for the doula part of the job but for everything else that has to come along with being a doula. As you can read on the site I can be done with this course work in about a year but I have 3 years to be done. I hope to not rush myself through it but take it all in and learn everything I can btu still be done in a good amount of time so that I can be a real life doula! I will also be starting the breastfeeding counselor class at the same time through the same company and this is something to expand by business plan in mind and something i really know I will be good at. As you may know by now I am a very big pro-breastfeeder. I believe it is so vitally important and I want to help women oout there be able to nurse their children. This course work takes about 10-14 months to complete but again I have a full 3 years to complete everything with this company which is great I mean I have these two kids running around!
 As excited as I am to begin this new path in my life I am also just as nervous to start this. Myself is my own worst emeny and my self confidence tends to always hinder me in completing something like this. It's why I never went through with a lot of things in life; college, nursing school, joining the Marines... My confidence has always lacked and in the back of my head I hear something saying I will just fail at it so why bother starting and wasting time and money. I don't know why but that is how it is. This is will be different, I have support from my amazing husband who won't let me fail. He is such am amazing supportive man!
 So here i am just waiting for taxes to come back and that day I am signing up and paying for in full! Birth Doula and Breastfeeding Counselor here I come!!!!!!!!!