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EUROPEAN DOULA GUIDE

Les Cahiers de DDF : Tome 2
The European Doula Guide
5€, 24 pages, couverture couleur, format A4. Mai 2007
The European Doula Guide is the second publication from the collection
« Cahiers de Doulas de France ». This work was published
for all the compiled information to be easily accessible . The Association Doulas
de France wanted to start off with the Etats des Lieux des Doulas
en Europe and its English version The European Doula Guide because
it is a collective work, informative, and faithful to the DDF philosophy
of linking up and sharing with others.
With this Guide we can take a first step towards the
creation of a European Doula Organisation and setting up common guidelines for doula
training courses in Europe. We started compiling European statistics
on doulas' activities to highlight the benefits of woman to woman
support around childbirth. Doulas can also use it as a promotion tool
for their activities in all European countries.
This work is the result of a project first mentioned
in May 2005 during the 3rd French Doulas Convention held in Paris,
then developed further in May 2006 through workshops and roundtable
discussions during the 4th French Doulas Convention. At the same time,
a group of doulas from European Countries attending a Congress on Childbirth in Graz in November 2005 got to
know each other. They realised that in different European countries
the Doula movement was constantly growing and that they didn't
really know about each others'activities. A more formal European Doula Meeting was
planned to coincide with the Midwifery Today Conference in Bad Wildbad in October
2006 then again in Gratz in November 2006.
The need for such a publication has arisen and Doulas
de France is proud and delighted to present the first document giving
a European picture of doulas'activities: the revival of a traditional
way of supporting women around childbirth.
We warmly thank all the doulas organisations which contributed
to the birth of this baby !
Estimation for Europe, may 2007
. 1060 active doulas . 900 trainees
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Table of Contents
· Austria · Belgium · Cyprus · Czech Republic · France · Germany
· Ireland · Hungary · Netherlands · Portugal ·
· Spain · Switzerland · United Kingdom · Denmark · Italy · Latvia
· Luxembourg · Finland · Sweden ·
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Edited by the Association Doulas de France
6 square Baden Powell - 35000 Rennes
http://www.doulas.info - Contact : info@doulas.info
Association de loi 1901
Statuts déposé à Bobigny le 14 février 2006
Printed by PLG Impressions, May 2007
ISBN : 978-2-9529683-1-7
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General editor and design : Charlotte Marchandise Fajardo
Editor in chief : Valérie Dupin
Translations : Valérie Dupin, Herrade Hemmerdinger
Contributing editors : Sandra Versele Gremaud, Claire Montcourtois
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced without permission of Doulas de France
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The collection
Les Cahiers de DDF is a collection of publications, starting
off with a “European Guide to Doula Organisations”, followed
by the Catalogue of the exhibition “Regards”, where 17
artists and authors shared their vision of Motherhood through paintings,
photographies, poems, drawings...
This exhibition was held at the 5th French Doulas Convention 12-13
May 2007 in Paris.
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