OUR MISSION
To provide evidence-based information using Lamaze principles to participants who want to become childbirth educators, to perinatal nurses who want to enrich their nursing practice, and to childbearing families.
Become a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator (LCCE). The LCCE credential assures women & their families that you have reached a standard level of knowledge and skills. Lamaze Certification is achieved by passing the Lamaze International Certification Exam, which is offered twice a year. Attending this seminar is one of the steps in the eligibility process.
The structure of the seminars will be three days (often consecutive) from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm in the Central Time Zone. The cost is $400. Generally, the seminars will be held either virtually or in Spring, Texas, however, other host sites may be arranged (please contact us if an alternate host site or dates are desired).
Teach You! Childbirth will comply with all policies of Lamaze. The program director will hold decision-making authority for policies of Teach You! Childbirth.

When you register for a Childbirth Education Project (CEP) workshop, you become part of our community of vibrant learners. Led by program director Robin Elise Weiss, Ph.D., MPH, CLC, AdvCD(DONA), LCCE, FACCE, you are supported and celebrated as you start or continue your childbirth education career. 

Upon registration, you are invited to become an engaged CEP learner, excited to become an effective and dynamic childbirth educator. Our workshops help you to embrace creativity, active learning, and evidence-based information. We use our time together efficiently, sharing information and resources that will be valuable to you as help families to be prepared and confident during the childbearing year. We understand the challenges of working independently or within a hospital system, and can help you to do both with confidence. 

We model how to create a learning environment that families will rave about and that you will have fun facilitating for both in-person and virtual classrooms. You will be able to teach in either environment with confidence. 

We support you after your workshop with ongoing community-building activities, events, and resources that keep you connected to your trainers, your cohort, and the CEP community of learners. Our program offers exam prep support as you work to earn the LCCE credentials, equity funding, and payment plans.

In a CEP workshop you can expect to: 

Develop the confidence and skills to teach childbirth education classes to expectant parents 

Receive resources and activities that families will rave about to use in your classes 

Begin to earn your LCCE credentials 

Be welcomed into an active community of like-minded educators 

Gain valuable business information to launch or grow your own business 

Participate in ongoing program offerings as an alum 

Have access to trainers with more than 50 combined years of experience 

Laugh and have fun 

Celebrate diversity and differences 

Appreciate evidence-based information and learn best practices for perinatal topics and adult education principles. 

We cannot wait to welcome you into this workshop and into the CEP community. 

“Blake was great! She was attentive to my questions, even outside of our zoom calls. Her lessons in google classroom made it easy to follow along and track my progress and she gave clear directions on all assignments. Even as a seasoned doula, I learned a lot and feel more confident in teaching childbirth education.” -Doula, November 2024

Birthing Babies VA’s seminar is an experience aimed at teaching educators about using evidence to support their teaching, strategies for teaching childbearing families, preparing for certification, and launching their childbirth education business. Blake loves teaching this class online because that means you will have resources to go back to through your certification journey (3 years)!
Other details you may want to know:
-This class awards 26.5 Lamaze Contact Hours Nursing CEUs by the California Board of Registered Nursing.
-Blake’s goal is to help create successful childbirth educators and will work with you through the seminar, exam preparations, and business launching.
-Seminar participants are invited to join a FREE online exam prep course.
-Participants can start building and teaching their courses as soon as they feel ready!
-Cost $500 (discount available for early registration-payment plans available)
Expanded description is available by clicking on the seminar title. Need more information? Just send me an email or give me a call, I’m happy to chat!

“Loved this class!! Blake encouraged and inspired creative ways to teach content! The class had a lot of content but was organized and easy to understand and go in order Thank you!!” -RN, Childbirth Educator, October 2024

Birthing Babies VA’s seminar is an experience aimed at teaching educators about using evidence to support their teaching, strategies for teaching childbearing families, preparing for certification, and launching their childbirth education business. Blake loves teaching this class online because that means you will have resources to go back to through your certification journey (3 years)!
Other details you may want to know:
-This class awards 26.5 Lamaze Contact Hours Nursing CEUs by the California Board of Registered Nursing.
-Blake’s goal is to help create successful childbirth educators and will work with you through the seminar, exam preparations, and business launching.
-Seminar participants are invited to join a FREE online exam prep course.
-Participants can start building and teaching their courses as soon as they feel ready!
-Cost $500 (discount available for early registration-payment plans available)
Expanded description is available by clicking on the seminar title. Need more information? Just send me an email or give me a call, I’m happy to chat!

“Love her energy! She is willing to help every step of the way and it shows. It's obvious that she wants us to be successful!” -Doula, August 2024

Birthing Babies VA’s seminar is an experience aimed at teaching educators about using evidence to support their teaching, strategies for teaching childbearing families, preparing for certification, and launching their childbirth education business. Blake loves teaching this class online because that means you will have resources to go back to through your certification journey (3 years)!
Other details you may want to know:
-This class awards 26.5 Lamaze Contact Hours Nursing CEUs by the California Board of Registered Nursing.
-Blake’s goal is to help create successful childbirth educators and will work with you through the seminar, exam preparations, and business launching.
-Seminar participants are invited to join a FREE online exam prep course.
-Participants can start building and teaching their courses as soon as they feel ready!
-Cost $500 (discount available for early registration-payment plans available)
Expanded description is available by clicking on the seminar title. Need more information? Just send me an email or give me a call, I’m happy to chat!

“I loved the focused-information Blake gave and all of the videos and resources she provided! I also loved that we were able to meet via zoom during the day for check-ins and questions while still being able to do the learning at our own pace.” -RN, August 2024

Birthing Babies VA’s seminar is an experience aimed at teaching educators about using evidence to support their teaching, strategies for teaching childbearing families, preparing for certification, and launching their childbirth education business. Blake loves teaching this class online because that means you will have resources to go back to through your certification journey (3 years)!
Other details you may want to know:
-This class awards 26.5 Lamaze Contact Hours Nursing CEUs by the California Board of Registered Nursing.
-Blake’s goal is to help create successful childbirth educators and will work with you through the seminar, exam preparations, and business launching.
-Seminar participants are invited to join a FREE online exam prep course.
-Participants can start building and teaching their courses as soon as they feel ready!
-Cost $500 (discount available for early registration-payment plans available)
Expanded description is available by clicking on the seminar title. Need more information? Just send me an email or give me a call, I’m happy to chat!

Begin your rewarding career with an unforgettable, dynamic, evidence-based Family Trees Lamaze Childbirth Educator Seminar.

As one of the leading childbirth training programs in the world, we pride ourselves on creating successful childbirth educators with sustaining businesses and careers. With access to your trainer, a private Facebook group, and exam preparation, you will not be alone in your career journey.

​This training is open to everyone. There are no degree or certification requirements needed to be eligible for this seminar, however there is homework to complete prior to attending seminar which will prepare you for an optimal training experience.

We offer monthly seminars, so if this date is not available for you, we have another one coming right up!
​
We have flexible payment options, early-bird discounts, and discounts for those working in under-representented communities available to make this investment affordable.

OUR MISSION
To provide evidence-based information using Lamaze principles to participants who want to become childbirth educators, to perinatal nurses who want to enrich their nursing practice, and to childbearing families.
Become a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator (LCCE). The LCCE credential assures women & their families that you have reached a standard level of knowledge and skills. Lamaze Certification is achieved by passing the Lamaze International Certification Exam, which is offered twice a year. Attending this seminar is one of the steps in the eligibility process.
The structure of the seminars will be three days (often consecutive) from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm in the Central Time Zone. The cost is $400. Generally, the seminars will be held either virtually or in Spring, Texas, however, other host sites may be arranged (please contact us if an alternate host site or dates are desired).
Teach You! Childbirth will comply with all policies of Lamaze. The program director will hold decision-making authority for policies of Teach You! Childbirth.

To register, send the email associated with your Lamaze account, your mailing address and telephone number along with the date of the Seminar for which you want to register.

Birthing Babies VA’s seminar is an experience aimed at teaching educators about using evidence to support their teaching, strategies for teaching childbearing families, preparing for certification, and launching their childbirth education business. Blake loves teaching this class online because that means you will have resources to go back to through your certification journey (3 years)!
Other details you may want to know:
-This class awards 26.5 Lamaze Contact Hours Nursing CEUs by the California Board of Registered Nursing.
-Blake’s goal is to help create successful childbirth educators and will work with you through the seminar, exam preparations, and business launching.
-Seminar participants are invited to join a FREE online exam prep course.
-Participants can start building and teaching their courses as soon as they feel ready!
-Cost $500 (discount available for early registration-payment plans available)
Expanded description is available by clicking on the seminar title. Need more information? Just send me an email or give me a call, I’m happy to chat!

When you register for a Childbirth Education Project (CEP) workshop, you become part of our community of vibrant learners. Led by program director Robin Elise Weiss, Ph.D., MPH, CLC, AdvCD(DONA), LCCE, FACCE, you are supported and celebrated as you start or continue your childbirth education career. 

Upon registration, you are invited to become an engaged CEP learner, excited to become an effective and dynamic childbirth educator. Our workshops help you to embrace creativity, active learning, and evidence-based information. We use our time together efficiently, sharing information and resources that will be valuable to you as help families to be prepared and confident during the childbearing year. We understand the challenges of working independently or within a hospital system, and can help you to do both with confidence. 

We model how to create a learning environment that families will rave about and that you will have fun facilitating for both in-person and virtual classrooms. You will be able to teach in either environment with confidence. 

We support you after your workshop with ongoing community-building activities, events, and resources that keep you connected to your trainers, your cohort, and the CEP community of learners. Our program offers exam prep support as you work to earn the LCCE credentials, equity funding, and payment plans.

In a CEP workshop you can expect to: 

Develop the confidence and skills to teach childbirth education classes to expectant parents 

Receive resources and activities that families will rave about to use in your classes 

Begin to earn your LCCE credentials 

Be welcomed into an active community of like-minded educators 

Gain valuable business information to launch or grow your own business 

Participate in ongoing program offerings as an alum 

Have access to trainers with more than 50 combined years of experience 

Laugh and have fun 

Celebrate diversity and differences 

Appreciate evidence-based information and learn best practices for perinatal topics and adult education principles. 

We cannot wait to welcome you into this workshop and into the CEP community. 

“Blake was great. She was extremely helpful and honest. I would take classes from her again.” Certified Medical Assistant, January 2025

Birthing Babies VA’s seminar is an experience aimed at teaching educators about using evidence to support their teaching, strategies for teaching childbearing families, preparing for certification, and launching their childbirth education business. Blake loves teaching this class online because that means you will have resources to go back to through your certification journey (3 years)!
Other details you may want to know:
-This class awards 26.5 Lamaze Contact Hours Nursing CEUs by the California Board of Registered Nursing.
-Blake’s goal is to help create successful childbirth educators and will work with you through the seminar, exam preparations, and business launching.
-Seminar participants are invited to join a FREE online exam prep course.
-Participants can start building and teaching their courses as soon as they feel ready!
-Cost $500 (discount available for early registration-payment plans available)
Expanded description is available by clicking on the seminar title. Need more information? Just send me an email or give me a call, I’m happy to chat!

“Blake was very helpful when questions were asked, very thorough and clearly well versed in this field. I really enjoyed your class! The time we were in class renewed my energy around birth!” -Midwife, Childbirth Educator, Lactation Consultant, January 2025

Birthing Babies VA’s seminar is an experience aimed at teaching educators about using evidence to support their teaching, strategies for teaching childbearing families, preparing for certification, and launching their childbirth education business. Blake loves teaching this class online because that means you will have resources to go back to through your certification journey (3 years)!
Other details you may want to know:
-This class awards 26.5 Lamaze Contact Hours Nursing CEUs by the California Board of Registered Nursing.
-Blake’s goal is to help create successful childbirth educators and will work with you through the seminar, exam preparations, and business launching.
-Seminar participants are invited to join a FREE online exam prep course.
-Participants can start building and teaching their courses as soon as they feel ready!
-Cost $500 (discount available for early registration-payment plans available)
Expanded description is available by clicking on the seminar title. Need more information? Just send me an email or give me a call, I’m happy to chat!

Begin your rewarding career with an unforgettable, dynamic, evidence-based Family Trees Lamaze Childbirth Educator Seminar.

As one of the leading childbirth training programs in the world, we pride ourselves on creating successful childbirth educators with sustaining businesses and careers. With access to your trainer, a private Facebook group, and exam preparation, you will not be alone in your career journey.

​This training is open to everyone. There are no degree or certification requirements needed to be eligible for this seminar, however there is homework to complete prior to attending seminar which will prepare you for an optimal training experience.

We offer monthly seminars, so if this date is not available for you, we have another one coming right up!
​
We have flexible payment options, early-bird discounts, and discounts for those working in under-representented communities available to make this investment affordable.

“I really enjoyed this course and how it was presented and laid out. Very user friendly and interesting.” Doula, January 2025

Birthing Babies VA’s seminar is an experience aimed at teaching educators about using evidence to support their teaching, strategies for teaching childbearing families, preparing for certification, and launching their childbirth education business. Blake loves teaching this class online because that means you will have resources to go back to through your certification journey (3 years)!
Other details you may want to know:
-This class awards 26.5 Lamaze Contact Hours Nursing CEUs by the California Board of Registered Nursing.
-Blake’s goal is to help create successful childbirth educators and will work with you through the seminar, exam preparations, and business launching.
-Seminar participants are invited to join a FREE online exam prep course.
-Participants can start building and teaching their courses as soon as they feel ready!
-Cost $500 (discount available for early registration-payment plans available)
Expanded description is available by clicking on the seminar title. Need more information? Just send me an email or give me a call, I’m happy to chat!

Begin your rewarding career with an unforgettable, dynamic, evidence-based Family Trees Lamaze Childbirth Educator Seminar.

As one of the leading childbirth training programs in the world, we pride ourselves on creating successful childbirth educators with sustaining businesses and careers. With access to your trainer, a private Facebook group, and exam preparation, you will not be alone in your career journey.

​This training is open to everyone. There are no degree or certification requirements needed to be eligible for this seminar, however there is homework to complete prior to attending seminar which will prepare you for an optimal training experience.

We offer monthly seminars, so if this date is not available for you, we have another one coming right up!
​
We have flexible payment options, early-bird discounts, and discounts for those working in under-representented communities available to make this investment affordable.

Begin your rewarding career with an unforgettable, dynamic, evidence-based Family Trees Lamaze Childbirth Educator Seminar.

As one of the leading childbirth training programs in the world, we pride ourselves on creating successful childbirth educators with sustaining businesses and careers. With access to your trainer, a private Facebook group, and exam preparation, you will not be alone in your career journey.

​This training is open to everyone. There are no degree or certification requirements needed to be eligible for this seminar, however there is homework to complete prior to attending seminar which will prepare you for an optimal training experience.

We offer monthly seminars, so if this date is not available for you, we have another one coming right up!
​
We have flexible payment options, early-bird discounts, and discounts for those working in under-representented communities available to make this investment affordable.
 

Begin your rewarding career with an unforgettable, dynamic, evidence-based Family Trees Lamaze Childbirth Educator Seminar.

As one of the leading childbirth training programs in the world, we pride ourselves on creating successful childbirth educators with sustaining businesses and careers. With access to your trainer, a private Facebook group, and exam preparation, you will not be alone in your career journey.

​This training is open to everyone. There are no degree or certification requirements needed to be eligible for this seminar, however there is homework to complete prior to attending seminar which will prepare you for an optimal training experience.

We offer monthly seminars, so if this date is not available for you, we have another one coming right up!
​
We have flexible payment options, early-bird discounts, and discounts for those working in under-representented communities available to make this investment affordable.

Begin your rewarding career with an unforgettable, dynamic, evidence-based Family Trees Lamaze Childbirth Educator Seminar.

As one of the leading childbirth training programs in the world, we pride ourselves on creating successful childbirth educators with sustaining businesses and careers. With access to your trainer, a private Facebook group, and exam preparation, you will not be alone in your career journey.

​This training is open to everyone. There are no degree or certification requirements needed to be eligible for this seminar, however there is homework to complete prior to attending seminar which will prepare you for an optimal training experience.

We offer monthly seminars, so if this date is not available for you, we have another one coming right up!
​
We have flexible payment options, early-bird discounts, and discounts for those working in under-representented communities available to make this investment affordable.

Begin your rewarding career with an unforgettable, dynamic, evidence-based Family Trees Lamaze Childbirth Educator Seminar.

As one of the leading childbirth training programs in the world, we pride ourselves on creating successful childbirth educators with sustaining businesses and careers. With access to your trainer, a private Facebook group, and exam preparation, you will not be alone in your career journey.

​This training is open to everyone. There are no degree or certification requirements needed to be eligible for this seminar, however there is homework to complete prior to attending seminar which will prepare you for an optimal training experience.

We offer monthly seminars, so if this date is not available for you, we have another one coming right up!
​
We have flexible payment options, early-bird discounts, and discounts for those working in under-representented communities available to make this investment affordable.

Begin your rewarding career with an unforgettable, dynamic, evidence-based Family Trees Lamaze Childbirth Educator Seminar.

As one of the leading childbirth training programs in the world, we pride ourselves on creating successful childbirth educators with sustaining businesses and careers. With access to your trainer, a private Facebook group, and exam preparation, you will not be alone in your career journey.

​This training is open to everyone. There are no degree or certification requirements needed to be eligible for this seminar, however there is homework to complete prior to attending seminar which will prepare you for an optimal training experience.

We offer monthly seminars, so if this date is not available for you, we have another one coming right up!
​
We have flexible payment options, early-bird discounts, and discounts for those working in under-representented communities available to make this investment affordable.

Begin your rewarding career with an unforgettable, dynamic, evidence-based Family Trees Lamaze Childbirth Educator Seminar.

As one of the leading childbirth training programs in the world, we pride ourselves on creating successful childbirth educators with sustaining businesses and careers. With access to your trainer, a private Facebook group, and exam preparation, you will not be alone in your career journey.

​This training is open to everyone. There are no degree or certification requirements needed to be eligible for this seminar, however there is homework to complete prior to attending seminar which will prepare you for an optimal training experience.

We offer monthly seminars, so if this date is not available for you, we have another one coming right up!
​
We have flexible payment options, early-bird discounts, and discounts for those working in under-representented communities available to make this investment affordable.