Us
RMD is committed to high standards of service quality and has a curriculum design, studied and improved over the years, to accredit doula schools that train highly qualified professionals. The organization aims to bring together doulas from around the world to build relationships and strengthen ties among us, in accordance with our code of ethics and conduct. We are a group of doulas who come together and work voluntarily for all doulas around the world.
The coordinators work as a team to offer ongoing training, workshops, talks, and local and international conferences, as well as to bring together doulas from each location to discuss topics of common interest and promote professional practice through their representation of the RMD.
Currently, we are the only international organization that promotes our role, standardizes the profession, brings together doulas from around the world, and works as a team to achieve recognition of our profession in every country where we are represented.
The principles of our work invite us to maintain a healthy balance between thinking, communicating, feeling, and doing, integrating mind, heart, and uterus. We offer our service with awareness of the healing impact that accompanies it.
Being and belonging to RMD is a voluntary commitment to presence and awareness of this healing impact, not only for the families we support, but for the doula community and the human community in general.
In her honor, we agreed to establish April 15th as Hispanic-American Doula Day, and we created the doula training scholarship that each school accredited with our Network awards annually to low-income women who work in their communities supporting pregnant women and their families.
Jackie Pérez Sanjurjo
Founder of the Network
He was born in Luquillo, a beach town in Puerto Rico, on April 15th and left us early on July 3rd, 2015.
Doula, massage therapist and alternative therapy teacher specializing in pregnancy and infants, lactation counselor, and prenatal educator.
Founder of the Gentle Birth association.
In 2005, he presented his project in the Senate and House of Representatives, being welcomed by Senators Sila Marie Gonzales and Maria del Lourdes Santiago, who named it Project P.del S. 414 and which was approved by the Governor of Puerto Rico, Honorable Anibal Acevedo Vila, thus making Puerto Rico one of the first countries with a law called "Law of Accompaniment during Labor and Birth, No. 156" on August 10, 2006.
The Brazilian Ministry of Health invites her to participate in the Third International Conference on the Humanization of Labor and Birth, where she presented the Puerto Rico Humanization of Childbirth Act.
A meeting of women from Latin American countries was held at the Congress, where she was appointed General Coordinator of the Latin American and Caribbean Doula Network on November 30, 2010:
" This will be a space for participation to strengthen ties and bonds among doulas in Latin America and the Caribbean, strengthening their daily work and unifying criteria on professional aspects."
Beyond these important achievements, Jackie was a hardworking, brilliant, and tireless woman, always loving, with an inspiring smile. Before leaving, she tasked all of us coordinators from different countries who accompanied her with continuing this project, which is now called the Global Doula Network.
Her motto was “A doula for every woman”
National Coordinators
