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Dear friends, partners, and collaborators,

As we move into 2026, we want to share both a reflection on what we collectively achieved in 2025 and a look ahead to a year that marks a major step forward for postpartum justice.

2025: Building the Foundation Together

The Postnatal rEvolution Summit

The Postnatal rEvolution Summit stands as a central achievement and a powerful moment of convergence for the movement. Building on years of collective work, the Summit brought together doulas, midwives, researchers, activists, policymakers, and postpartum parents to deepen analysis, strengthen alliances, and advance concrete strategies for change.

The Summit was not just an event—it was a political and relational space where postpartum care was reframed as a public responsibility, and where advocacy, practice, and healing met.

The Postpartum Call to Action

In 2025, the Postpartum Call to Action crystallized into a shared advocacy roadmap for systemic change. It was co-created through an extensive, transnational process that brought together lived experience, professional expertise, and collective imagination.

The Call to Action was shaped through:

• Expert talks (November–December 2024)
• Dialogue forums across multiple countries (January 2025)
• Working groups held during the Postnatal rEvolution Summit
• A series of expert meetings (March–June 2025)

Together, these processes synthesized priorities across postpartum physiology, mental health, social and practical empowerment, informed choice, and return-to-work dynamics. The Call to Action now functions as a living document—anchoring shared advocacy, organizing, and accountability across contexts.

We are deeply grateful to the growing network of endorsers, including the European Doula Network, Well Supported Mothers Collective, Wombs of the World, the Doula Association of Ireland, Developing Doulas (UK), and many others.

The live Postpartum Call to Action page continues to serve as a hub for sign-ups, endorsements, and outreach, ensuring this work remains active and evolving.

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Growing Global Reach Through Translation

We published the Postpartum Plan in Japanese, making a practical, rights-informed planning tool available to families and care providers in Japan and supporting informed choice and continuity of care beyond clinical settings.

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Women's Health Award

We are beyond thrilled to share that the PSN has been awarded Best Postpartum Care Community 2025 - Europe at the Women's Health Award!

This award celebrates our global community. This isn't just an award - it's the recognition of the importance of compassionate community care, rest, recovery and bonding after birth and a global movement changing how we value postpartum support.

Thank you to everyone who's walked beside us on this journey : this is your win, too.

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2026: A Year of Visibility, Practice, and Scale

A Fully Rewritten Postpartum Doula Manual

In response to the evolving needs of parents and colleagues, our team has completely rewritten the Postpartum Doula Manual over the last quarter of 2025 and finalized it for publication in 2026.

This new edition is grounded in our values, continuity of care, mental health, cultural responsiveness, informed choice, and advocacy-informed practice.

Postpartum Doula Training: In-Person and Online

In early 2026, we are launching our first training co-hosted with Holos, translating knowledge into concrete skill-building and professional support: In-person Postpartum Doula Training in Utrecht (January–February 2026)

We are also hosting an Online Postpartum Doula Training in English starting March 2026, increasing accessibility across regions and time zones.

These trainings aim not only to build competencies, but to strengthen a shared ethical, political, and care-centered foundation for postpartum support work.

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Scaling the Call to Action with Mama Cash

We are honored to share that the project Scaling the Postpartum Call to Action: From Global Vision to Local Change has received support from Mama Cash through the Spark Fund.

This project represents a crucial next phase: moving from endorsement toward local adaptation, community ownership, coalition-building, and institutional advocacy. With a focus on the Netherlands and Curaçao, it centers lived experience, cultural knowledge, and collective care—while building lasting pathways for policy and systems change.

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Moving Forward Together

What began as conversations has grown into a transnational movement for postpartum justice. The Summit, the Call to Action, the trainings, and the Mama Cash–supported project are all expressions of the same collective commitment: to move postpartum care from invisibility to priority.

As we move through 2026, we invite you to stay engaged—by sharing the Call to Action, participating in trainings and dialogues, and helping shape the next phase of this work.

With deep gratitude and solidarity,

The Postnatal Support Network Team

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