DONA International is an international association of doulas who are trained to provide the highest quality emotional, physical and educational support to women and their families during childbirth and postpartum.
CAPPA- Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association is a non-profit international organization that was founded in 1998 to offer the highest level of professional membership and training to childbirth educators, lactation educators, labor doulas, antepartum doulas and postpartum doulas.
ICEA – International Childbirth Education Association is an organization of over 4,000 members from throughout the United States and 42 countries who believe in freedom of choice based on knowledge of alternatives in family-centered maternity and newborn care.
ALACE – Association of Labor Assistants & Childbirth Educators believes in supporting women’s choices in childbirth through knowledgeable childbirth educators and labor assistants/birth doulas who can do a great deal to provide pregnant women with information and practical alternatives so that they may give birth with confidence, strength and joy.