Birth & Midwifery in Denmark
RESOURCES FOR PARENTS AND PRACTITIONERS

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Some of the following sites may not be in English; an online translator may be useful.

“Preserving the Spirit of Midwifery”—Midwifery Today international conference

Midwifery Today's next international conference is a return to Copenhagen, Denmark, 13–17 May 2009. Learn more about the upcoming conference. View scrapbooks of previous conferences.

Midwifery Today Country Contact

As a direct entry midwife, Marlene Gryesten began practicing in California in 1993, following an apprenticeship in Humboldt, and in Denmark since 2000. She is now practising as a "known midwife," paid and supported by the government, servicing 120 women a year. Women are offered their choice of setting, at their home, at a freestanding clinic or at the local university hospital. Over 50 midwives share call with equal time off, serving as many as 3600 birthing women a year. They wish to establish this as a common standard of practice in our midwifery center.

"As a TCM acupuncturist, I supervise my collegues on the labor ward, making sure they stay inspired to use acupuncture as a first choice when they have diagnosed need for augmentation, pain control, stuck placentas or such. In my private practise I offer yogatherapi, acupuncture and birth prep classes. For fun I continue to teach prenatal yoga, share information on how to keep birth sacred, do an occasional belly cast, or find other ways to love up pregnant women."

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Birth/Midwifery

• Den Almindelige Danske Jordemoderforening
• www.dadj.dk—National midwifery union
• www.hjemmefoedsler.dk—homebirth choice in Region Sjaelland
• www.jordemodernordjylland.dk—Midwifery center in northern jutland
• www.netjordemoderen.dk—information page for families

Parenting/Breastfeeding

• www.FOGF.dk—Promoting sane birth and birthchoices; offering information on many aspects of parenting

Education

• www.jord.cvuoeresund.dk—Midwifery school
• www.scvua.dk—Midwifery school
• www.jordemoderuddannelsen.dk—Midwifery school
• www.foedselscoach.dk—Doula training and services
• www.kvinde.finfo.dk—Women-centered information
• www.gaia-instituttet.dk—Women-centered information
• www.trillium.dk/—Pre- and postnatal training
  Offering holistic training for the new family in a woman-friendly center run by a midwife/physicaltherapist/pshychologist
• www.familieskolen.dk—Pre- and postnatal training