Passionate About Childbirth?
Become a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator!
New York City Lamaze Childbirth Educator Training Program is the first step towards Lamaze childbirth educator certification.
What you’ll learn
We provide a rigorous curriculum for three full days where you will learn how to:
Create, teach, and evaluate a Lamaze Childbirth Course and create fun interactive activities that will help to build confidence in your student’s ability to give birth, while also providing important information to partners/support persons about how to support their pregnant loved one physically, informationally, and emotionally.
Promote normal, safe, and healthy goals throughout pregnancy, labor and postpartum, including breastfeeding support.
Share information about how medical interventions and complications can interfere with the normal flow of labor and birth
Build a curriculum that emphasizes and threads the Lamaze Six Healthy Birth Practices in each class.
Teach your students to advocate for themselves throughout pregnancy, labor, and postpartum stages.
Properly prepare to take the Lamaze Certification Exam.
2026 Registration is Open!
NYC Lamaze is pleased to announce that in 2026, we will be offering live training seminars for individuals interested in becoming Lamaze Birth educators. These in-person seminars provide comprehensive and interactive training to equip registrants with the knowledge and skills necessary to support expectant parents on their journey through pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenthood.
We are committed to providing top-quality education for birth professionals and are excited to offer these valuable training opportunities to our NYC community.
September 16 - September 18, 2026
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Robin Gibson-Douthit, LCCE, CD(DONA), CLC, MA (Program Director & Instructor)
Robin is a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator, a Certified Birth Doula, and a Certified Lactation Counselor living and working in New York City. She teaches for a major NYC hospital system and in her own practice Flourishing Birth, which she founded in 2019. Robin has participated on the “Meet The Experts” panel and as a speaker at the New York Baby Show, and enjoyed being a podcast host in season three of The Lamaze Podcast. Robin loves teaching and mentoring while serving as co-director of the NYC Lamaze Childbirth Educator Program. She currently serves as President of Lamaze International’s Board of Directors for 2025. A native New Yorker, she shares a home with her family in the heart of New York City.
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Questions?
We have answers!
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You will be on your way! Attending the seminar is only the first step. Once you have purchased the Lamaze Learning Guide (it's recommended to do so before attending the seminar so you are familiar with its content) and completed the seminar, you will receive a certificate and may call yourself “Lamaze trained”, but not certified. You will then be able to begin preparing for the Lamaze certification exam, which is offered twice a year. Once you have passed the exam, you will officially be a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator!
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Not currently. Since the end of the covid 19 pandemic, we returned to in person seminars where you will be able to socialize and interact on a much higher level, making the 3 day experience incredibly rich and more fulfilling than sitting and staring at your laptop or desktop screen for hours each day.
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One of my favorite things in the world to do is to mentor novice educators. Once you have completed the 3 day seminar we will be available to you for support throughout your path leading to the exam. And once you’ve passed the exam, we will continue to be there for guidance, counsel, and support as you launch your teaching career. Your cohort (your colleagues who attended the Lamaze seminar with you) will be encouraged to keep in touch as a group in order to encourage and inspire each other as you work your way towards Lamaze certification.