Reinventing
Birth Support
Empowering birth professionals with coaching skills, evidence-informed education, and a more sustainable vision for the future of birth work.
Founder · Educator · Birth Professional
Neri Life-Choma, M.A.
The Moment Everything Changed
I didn’t create the Birth Coach Method because birth support professionals were failing. I created it because I saw the incredible potential of the work.
After years of supporting families as a doula, I recognized a gap between the support I was providing and the deeper transformation families needed. Powerful coaching conversations could help move people from fear to confidence, uncertainty to clarity, and toward more active participation in their own decisions.
Those conversations became the foundation of Birth Coach Method: a way to create deeper impact for families while opening new possibilities for sustainable, meaningful birth work.
“Teaching birth support professionals is an honor.”
Experience that strengthens the method.
Olga Libova
Advisory Committee
Olga is a DNP, M.S, and California Board Certified Nurse- Midwife. She is a tenured nursing faculty in De Anza college nursing program and Childbirth Educator.
Olga practices and resides in the San Francisco Bay Area California. She is a mother of three children. These days Olga is practicing with Altos Oaks Medical Group in Mountain View California.
Olga contributes a wealth of information to our program when it comes to prenatal care and alterations, medical aspects of labor, and birth and labor and delivery medical procedures. She is always updated when it comes to obstetric regulations and recommendations of ACOG.
Alit Ronen
Advisory Committee
Alit is a CNM (Israel), Childbirth Educator and Birth Doula as well as co-founder of Mama Center (Israel and CA). She is practicing as an L&D nurse in UCLA Santa Monica, LA since 1991. She is a mother of two children as well as a grandma of two.
In 1999 Alit moved to Israel and enrolled in Midwifery school and became a CNM. She worked in the hospital setting as a midwife and attended home births too.
“It was during early months in Israel that I met Neri and a very strong bond was created both personally and professionally. We co-founded Mama Center- a birth resource center. My goal and passion is to empower women through education to have the birth of their choice with the changing climate of health care, professional doulas can help women greatly in achieving their desired birth.”
Preparing birth professionals for what’s next.
Our mission is to transform birth support by empowering doulas and birth professionals with coaching skills, evidence-informed education, and innovative approaches that create deeper impact while building sustainable careers in birth work.
Birth Coach Method expands traditional birth support by integrating Transformational Perinatal Coaching, equipping professionals to guide intentional conversations that strengthen confidence, agency, and empowered decision-making throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
- Coaching-based birth support
- Client-centered advocacy
- Transformational perinatal conversations
- Professional communication with healthcare teams
- Sustainable birth work practices
Knowledge matters. So does what happens next.
Knowing about birth and going through birth are two very different experiences. Education can help families understand their options, physiology, and what to expect. But pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood also ask people to navigate fear, uncertainty, changing circumstances, difficult decisions, and deeply personal priorities.
That is where transformational coaching belongs in birth work. It gives birth professionals practical ways to help clients think through options, connect with what matters to them, and move forward with greater confidence.
Coaching does not replace education, emotional support, or hands-on doula care. It expands the professional’s ability to support the whole decision-making process and creates more possibilities for meaningful prenatal and postpartum work.
Birth education gives families knowledge.
Birth support provides presence and guidance.
Transformational coaching helps them turn what they know into confident, empowered action.
The 5 C’s of Transformational Birth Work
Five qualities that help clients move from information toward ownership, confidence, and meaningful action.
Clarity
Understanding values, beliefs, desires, and choices.
Confidence
Trusting their ability to navigate pregnancy, birth, and parenthood.
Conviction
Connecting with motivations, resources, intentions, and desired experience.
Commitment
Taking aligned, empowered action toward their goals.
(In) Charge
Stepping into ownership, agency, and active participation in the perinatal journey.
Birth Coach Method is dedicated to fostering perinatal support rooted in mutual respect, trust, and fulfillment of clients and their support figures, and promoting strong partnerships between clients and birth support professionals.
Where do you want to take your birth work next?
Explore the training path that best fits where you are now and where you want to go.
