Our History

Cathy Daub designed and taught the first Birth Works© classes in New Jersey in 1981. Birth Works joined The International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN) in 1982 and Cathy served as chairperson of the education committee for the organization to develop Birth Works into a certification program. The program was completed in 1988 and the first childbirth educator training workshop was held. In 1994 Birth Works© became incorporated to form its own non-profit organization with a full Board of Directors and Board of Advisors.

Cathy is a physical therapist who has worked with handicapped children over the last 20 years. She serves as president of Birth Works and continues to bring her many talents together to enhance our learning of the human body and spirit, helping us to have more faith and trust in how it works when giving birth. She is the author of Birthing In The Spirit, a human values approach to childbirth.She is co-editor and writer for the Birth Works Manual and is author of Doulas of Love: A Guidebook for Doulas and Expectant Parents, Birthing from the Heart: A Personal Growth Journal for professional and expectant parents, as well as compser of original birthing songs on the CD entitled Believe. She has been facilitating national/international childbirth educator workshops over the last 17 years and birth doula training workshops over the last six years. She is a founding member of CIMS having represented Birth Works at the initial coalition meetings. Cathy is a certified Maya Abdominal Massage therapist and is trained in techniques of myofascial release, all of which she incorporates into her workshops. She is also certified in pelvic bodywork. She is the mother of two children.