Your Childbirth Mentors

Betty San Luis, CBD, CPD

As a mother of five naturally born children, Doula Betty is a champion of positive birth and empowered parenthood. She nurtures birthing mothers as a certified doula with Childbirth International (CBI) and empowers expectant parents as the main mentor of Birthing is a Blessing, where she conducts childbirth preparation classes with her husband Manny San Luis. 

She is also a certified Postpartum Doula under the Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association (CAPPA) and a certified EmbodyBirth™ and BellydanceBirth® Teacher.

Doula Betty has been assisting births in hospitals, birthing homes, maternity clinics, and her clients’ homes since 2011.

Manny San Luis, CHE, CHT (Certified Hospitality Educator) (Certified Hospitality Trainer)

Manny is a professional hospitality educator and a certified training and development practitioner. He is currently a full-time Corporate Director of Training and Development in a real estate corporation in the Philippines.

In Birthing is a Blessing, Manny is the principal program designer of The Birth Basics Workshop and After Birth Care Workshop, and, together with Betty, they update and develop new programs that will support expectant couples and new parents.

He is also a veteran dad of five unmedicated vaginal births. Both he and his wife Betty studied obstetrics for two semesters in a midwifery school. They also underwent a preceptorship program on natural birth with a highly qualified OB-Gyne.