Host a Training

To host a local training, please contact AMANI Headquarters directly:

AMANI Headquarters (Saudi Arabia):
For more information about classes, workshops, services, or plans, please contact them at:

Email:  info@amanibirth.com

Phone: 056 908 7044 (from outside Saudi Arabia: 966 56 908 7044)

Website:  http://www.amanibirth.com/2012/04/do-you-want-to-be-amani-birth-teacher.html

You can find an FAQ to host a training at this link:  http://tenangmelahirkan.blogspot.com/2013/03/faq-for-hosting-training.html

If you would like to contact the Malaysian coordinator for the 2011 local training, please email her at: mahabatullah@hotmail.com

Additional Info:
The Infomation below is taken from the main website at this link: (please refer to the link for the latest update)

http://www.amanibirth.com/2012/04/do-you-want-to-be-amani-birth-teacher.html

1.Training Program Overview

2.Trainer info

3.Amani Birth Philosophy

1.Training Program Overview

Your AMANI^SM Birth training journey consists of 10 parts:

1. Complete and submit the application for training online  and send your birth stories to: birthstories@amanibirth.com

2.    Upon acceptance, contact the coordinator to make payment. Email: amanimalaysia2012@gmail.com

3.      Attend a 20-hour live workshop 

4.      Complete required readings (4 books total, reading list provided upon application).

5.      Submit required proof of readings.

6.      Complete required references in your birth community (research of services in your community).

7.      Submit self-evaluations of one series of classes (for Childbirth Educators).

8.      Submit a self-evaluation for one doula birth (for Doulas).

9.      Complete a written exam at the end of the training period.

10.    Submit the annual certification fee of $USD50 and become listed on the AMANI Teacher/Doula Directory.

2. Trainer

Aisha Al-Hajjar, also known as "Natural Mom." She is an American Muslim, married to a Saudi and living in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. She homeschools her eight children. She is a natural childbirth educator and labor/birth doula. She lectures on the topics of natural birth and positive parenting. She is passionate about natural, non-medicated birth and feels that she has a gift to give women in sharing this passion. She blogs about birth (http://saudibirthstory.blogspot.com/) and she also writes a weekly column on Saudi Life e-news blog (http://saudilife.net/motherhood).

3. Childbirth Education Program

AMANI^SM Birth is an Islamically based childbirth education and doula certification program designed to prepare professionals in the field of natural birth.  Our primary goal is to teach trust in Allah first and foremost and that birth is a form of worship.  We do not provide medical advice or services and recommend that all expectant parents seek out proper attendance for their birth.  AMANI^SM Birth Certified Childbirth Educators teach the following principles:

1.      Allah is in control of all things.

2.      Birth is a natural life event.

3.      Birth is inherently safe.

4.      The mother’s role in maximizing birth’s safeguards.

5.      Trust in birth is trust in Allah.

6.      Physiology of pregnancy.

7.      Physical preparation for labor/birth.

8.      The importance of good nutrition during pregnancy.

9.      Natural techniques for labor pain.

10.    The importance of avoiding drugs in pregnancy and labor.

11.    Parental responsibility starts in pregnancy.

12.    Birth consumerism is an obligation of good parenting.

13.    Making informed decisions during pregnancy and birth.

14.    Self-advocacy is a right and a responsibility in birth.  

15.    The birth experience matters for a lifetime.

16.    Empowering women in birth.

17.    Educating partners to support mothers in labor.

18.    Breastfeeding is the best nutrition for babies.

19.    Thanking Allah for the birth experience.

20.    Trust in Allah’s plan for our births and our lives.