GLOBAL MODELS IN PRACTICE
Real-World Applications of Prenatal Education and Early Human Development
These models represent independent initiatives and organizations that embody principles aligned with Prenatal Alliance’s mission. They demonstrate how prenatal knowledge can be translated into clinical, educational, and community-based practice in different cultural and institutional contexts.
They reflect important approaches that deserve greater global visibility and can help inspire collaboration, learning, and replication.
Clinical & Integrative Care Models
Mommy’s Touch International
India
A global initiative providing integrative prenatal and perinatal support through education, emotional care, and community-based programs.
Its work includes training professionals and supporting families, integrating principles of prenatal education and Garbha Samskar to promote conscious pregnancy, early development, and nurturing environments for both mother and child.
Centro Gestacional Harmonia para a Vida
Brazil
A pioneering pregnancy center integrating prenatal psychology, education, and humanized care. It reflects a broader understanding of pregnancy as a developmental, emotional, and relational process rather than only a medical event.
By supporting mothers and families through an integrative model, it demonstrates how prenatal care can include emotional wellbeing, informed support, and early human development as central dimensions of care.
Aaryajanani
India
Aaryajanani is focused on conscious pregnancy, early development, and family wellbeing through structured educational programs and workshops.
Its work includes pre-marital, pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, and post-pregnancy programs, offering guidance on lifestyle, emotional wellbeing, and developmental awareness. Through practices such as meditation, yoga, and relational preparation, it supports parents in creating more intentional conditions for early human development.
Educational & Developmental Models
ANEP España – Prenatal Education Programs
Spain
A key initiative promoting prenatal education through professional training and academic integration, including university-endorsed programs and accessible online learning.
Its work includes the MOOC “Pedagogía Prenatal para todos: educando antes del nacimiento,” endorsed by the Autonomous University of Madrid, as well as the course “Educación Prenatal Natural” offered through Escuela Bitácoras, a leading Spanish-language platform for parenting and education.
OMAEDU - Erasmus+
Europe
OMAEDU is a European Erasmus+ educational platform developed through a transnational partnership focused on prenatal education and parenting awareness. It provides structured training resources, learning materials, and digital tools to support professionals and communities in promoting early development, parental education, and social inclusion, particularly among vulnerable populations.
ANPEP Italia
Italy
A non-profit association with scientific, cultural and humanitarian aims. It was established in response to the growing need to understand how the prenatal period influences individual development and personality (in terms of well-being or distress).
Educazione Consapevole®
Italy
An Italian educational initiative offering training and support for professionals, families, and caregivers working with children from conception through early childhood. Founded as an integrated approach to early development, it combines prenatal psychology, neuroscience, music and educational practice to strengthen relational, emotional, and developmental foundations in the first years of life.
Fundación Instituto de la Inteligencia Libre
Spain
An educational initiative exploring human development, awareness, and learning processes from early life stages. Its work connects prenatal understanding with educational environments, particularly through engagement with teachers and learning systems.
It represents an important educational application of prenatal and early developmental knowledge.
Training Models
ANEP Brasil
Brazil
A leading organization in prenatal education, dedicated to training professionals and promoting the integration of prenatal knowledge into healthcare and educational systems.
Its work includes structured training programs, professional certification, and the development of educational frameworks that support the recognition of prenatal education as a distinct field of practice. Through sustained efforts in education, research, and professional formation, ANEP Brasil has played a key role in establishing prenatal education as a credible and expanding discipline in Brazil.
Previda Foundation
International
Led by Jenny Koslow, this foundation focuses on training professionals in prenatal and early development, contributing to the dissemination of knowledge across healthcare and education fields.
Its strength lies in building professional capacity and widening access to prenatal and perinatal understanding.
Istanbul Birth Academy
Turkey
An interdisciplinary training platform bringing together medical, psychological, and educational perspectives to support more integrated approaches to pregnancy and birth.
It represents a valuable model for cross-disciplinary professional formation in the perinatal field.
Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs
United States
A clinical and educational center associated with Kate White, focused on prenatal and perinatal therapy, practitioner training, and healing through early-life interventions.
It contributes an important therapeutic perspective to the field of early development.