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EUROPEAN DOULA GUIDE


doula, DOULA, Doula

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

Table of Contents
· Austria · Belgium · Cyprus · Czech Republic · France · Germany · Ireland · Hungary · Netherlands · Portugal ·
· Spain · Switzerland · United Kingdom · Denmark · Italy · Latvia · Luxembourg · Finland · Sweden ·

Edited by the Association Doulas de France
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Printed by PLG Impressions, May 2007
ISBN : 978-2-9529683-1-7

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

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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