Know Your Rights – Become a Confident Self-Advocate
The U.S. has the worst birth outcomes in the industrialized world – and, according to the CDC, one in five women will experience mistreatment during childbirth.
Most of us walk into this system totally blind.
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Empower Yourself with the Knowledge A Lawyer Would Have Wanted
“This is ridiculous,” I thought, pouring over the records from my unplanned C-section. “I’m literally an attorney and I still don’t understand what I’m entitled to!”
I was just a few weeks postpartum and already back to work. I’d had a couple half-days as I transitioned back to the office, into a role with double the volume and double the responsibility as compared to the role I’d left at 9 months pregnant. I had intense “mom brain,” was pumping 3-4x a day at my desk, and I was having serious doubts about whether the “consent” I had given to my induction was actually “informed.”
Frankly, I was miserable.
I was missing my baby; I was hormonal; I was in no position to advocate for myself or to pour through statutes to try to understand where my employers and providers had failed me.
And no one had prepared me to be here.
If I couldn’t advocate for myself – me: a trained litigator – what American possibly could?
Photo by Krystal in Las Vegas
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If you are expecting a baby – or supporting someone who is – you know that the perinatal period can be a time of great joy. It can also be a time of great uncertainty.
Your Legal Doula was founded with the mission of ensuring that your birth rights – what you are legally entitled to while pregnant, giving birth, and postpartum – are not among those uncertainties.
While we can’t always predict how our births will go, we can shield ourselves from coercion, overwhelm, and mistreatment. How do we do that? With a specific framework: to understand, assert, and protect our birth rights.
- We must understand our rights inside and out, so we know which ones are relevant to us – and what laws back up our rights laid out in them.
- We must assert our rights: no second-guessing, saying our rights out loud, and knowing how to handle it in the moment when someone doesn’t respect them.
- And we must protect ourselves after any violation of our birth rights – everything from discrimination at work to obstetric violence.
This course will show you how.
If you are a first-time mom, feeling uncertain about your rights while pregnant – or while giving birth – or once the baby is born… you are in the right place.
Or, perhaps you are a second- or many-time mom. You think you understand your rights… but you know there was something “off” about the care you received the first time around. Or the way you were treated at work. Or worse; you’ve lost your confidence, because you think that if there was a problem, the fault was with you–that you didn’t “do enough” to get your rights respected.
Whatever your knowledge level; whatever your comfort level: Your Legal Doula’s Birth Rights Course is designed to equip you with the legal knowledge and advocacy skills to navigate your rights with confidence – at work, while getting care, and beyond.
What You’ll Learn
✔️ Your legal rights in pregnancy, labor, and postpartum care – where they come from, and how to use them
✔️ How to advocate for yourself or others in any birth setting
✔️ The keys to informed consent and refusal
✔️ How to be your own best advocate while pregnant or nursing at work
✔️ How to recognize and address potential violations of your rights
✔️ What to do if your rights are violated
Course Structure
- Self-paced video lessons
- 10-20 minute modules broken down by topic lead you through the three-part framework
- Designed by a busy mom, for busy moms
- No fluff; just what you need to know, to become your own best advocate
- Categorized, downloadable resources
- Worksheets and templates on how to find out what laws apply to you
- Materials to help build a script for you to assert your rights in real-time, backed up by citations
- Monthly live video calls
- When you buy the Course, you get access to three months of Your Legal Doula’s monthly calls on all things birth rights
- Topic-based Q&A sessions support and solidify your understanding of the material
- Increase your knowledge of practical strategies for getting your birth rights respected.
- IN PERSON / LIVE PROMO: One-hour, 1:1 call with Your Legal Doula
- When you register for the Course at an in-person event or during a live launch special, you get this bonus, worth $300.
- This is intended for use after you finish the course, to address any questions you may have about the materials and how to apply any of the knowledge you learn.
Who Is This Course For?
✅ Expecting mothers who want to make empowered choices
✅ Dads, partners, and others planning to support a birth
✅ Lawyers and advocates interested in reproductive justice
✅ Birth workers (doulas, midwives, nurses) who support clients
✅ Anyone who believes in bodily autonomy and informed decision-making
Is this you?
What’s Included with the Course?
🎥 Engaging Audio/Video Lessons – Clear education on birth rights and self-advocacy, broken down by an attorney
📄 Downloadable Resources – Templates, annotated bibliographies, and legal references
📢 Real-World Advocacy Tips – Use the downloadables to assert your rights in real time, both at work and in medical or other birth settings
💬 Lawyer-Led Support – Once a month, Your Legal Doula’s Membership hosts a Q&A call to to further into depth on each topic and to answer questions about course contents that have been submitted in advance. With the Course, you get acces
BONUSES
💬 1:1 Call – WHEN YOU PURCHASE IN PERSON OR DURING A LIVE PROMO: After you complete the course, you gain access to a one-on-one coaching call with Your Legal Doula. This call is designed to address your specific concerns, including any questions you may have on breaking down your rights and advocating for yourself. In this call, we can also direct you to resources that may be available in your state (self-help centers, attorneys, birth- or civil-rights organizations, etc.).
Why This Course?
Many go through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum without knowing their rights – to their detriment. When you don’t understand – let alone assert – your rights, you are vulnerable. Not only to coercion or mistreatment – but also to losing out on having the kind of pregnancy and birth you want. The kind you are entitled to.
This course gives you the legal know-how, practical tools, and strategies and confidence to ensure you (or your partner/clients) receive respectful, evidence-based care and the equitable treatment to which the law entitles you.
Course FAQ
Q: Is there a payment plan?
A: Yes! We can take payment via bank account, credit/debit card, Link, and other services. We know that sometimes, you need more options. When you click “Enroll Now – Pay in Full” you simply pay the full price (but don’t forget your coupon code if you have one!). When you click “Enroll Now – Payment Plan,” at the bottom of the page below, you’ll have the option to split the payment over the course of three months on an auto-pay plan. Access is not contingent upon payment in full; but access will be revoked if your payments cease. Please note that the payment plan includes a small, monthly fee.
Q: How do the live calls work?
A: Once a month, via Zoom, Your Legal Doula hosts a live, membership-only call to answer your questions about the material in the Birth Rights Course. (Note that this call is never a substitute for the advice of your own legal counsel. We cannot provide legal advice on a group call.) With your purchase of the course, you get access to three months of live calls. While these calls are not recorded, particularly illuminating examples may be used as supplements to the various modules.
Q: I live in [insert state here]. Will the Course work for me?
A: Your Legal Doula’s Birth Rights Course is designed to be useful to all people living in the United States. We cover federal law that protects us – as well as how to find the state laws that might apply to you. In an upcoming launch, in Summer 2026, state-specific modules will begin to be added. These can be added on to your purchase at any time. (First up, Nevada!)
Q: How long will I have access to the course?
A: Once you purchase the Birth Rights Course, you are guaranteed access as long as Your Legal Doula hosts the Course. This includes any updates to the Course – which may occur periodically as the law changes in the world of birth rights.
BONUS CONTENT QUESTIONS
Q: How can I use the 1:1 call? What is “coaching,” and how is it different from hiring an attorney?
A: With the purchase of the Birth Rights Course during a promotion, you receive a 1:1 coaching call, intended for use after you complete the course, to answer any of your lingering questions about the material and what specific concerns you have. We don’t become your attorney–but you can think of us as your “coach” for the hour. Hiring an attorney or even handling a legal matter yourself can be very expensive; so, Your Legal Doula offers the Birth Right Course, in part, to help prevent situations from escalating to the point that you need to hire an attorney to represent you in court or other entity. Consider this your chance to “pick a lawyer’s brain,” before you ever get to that point.
Launching April 2026!
Join today and take control of your birth experience.
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Two ways to pay:
- Pay $449 in full
- Coupon codes only available for those paying in full
- 📅 $165/month for 3 months
- For a total of $495
- Includes a $15 monthly installment fee