
CAPEA is going green!
After surveying our members; we have decided to Go Green at CAPEA and discontinue the printed journal for members due to increasing costs of printing and postage and our commitment to becoming more environmentally friendly.
You can access the journal directly from the members area.
Want to teach?
Learn about the various pathways to follow your dream and passion to become a childbirth educator, or birth and parenting educator.
National Standards
Our Standards guide and encourage parenting and childbirth educators to commit to ongoing improvement in their own practice.
Educator resources
Find unbiased, reliable information to support childbirth and parenting educators in their research for professional development.
Expecting soon?
Congratulations! We have put together some trusted resources to help guide you through the parenting education options.
Childbirth And Parenting Educators of Australia, Inc. (CAPEA)
We are a voluntary, professional association supporting Australian Childbirth and Parenting Educators from diverse backgrounds as they strive to provide high quality, accessible and responsive education to women and their families during pregnancy and early parenthood.
Our members are from a diverse range of backgrounds across Australia, including but not limited to: midwives, child and family health nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, independent educators, doulas, social workers, psychologists, yoga, calmbirth® and hypnobirth practitioners and general practitioners.

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Pain is under-recognised, underestimated, and under-treated in neonates and infants.
A team effort confirms new technology can identify pain in neonates and infants.
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A team effort confirms new technology can identify pain in neonates and infants
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Congratulations to Assia Comella and Svetlana Ivanic who have won the Marshall Prize in Surgical Training for 2022.- Likes: 2
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If you are a Victorian rural healthcare practitioner who provides perinatal care (midwife, GP, MCHN, mental health clinician) the Australian College of Midwives, Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM), La Trobe Rural Health School would love to hear about your experiences.
For further information please follow the link: lnkd.in/g6_zksMQ
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Rural Perinatal Care Study - Healthcare practitioners views.
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Thank you for taking the time to find out more about this study.What is the study about?We are interested in exploring the barriers and enablers that exist for rural women in accessing perinatal care....Paper by Professor Gene Declercq and Dr Neel Shah (and colleagues) compared birth by GESTATIONAL AGE and TIME OF DAY for home birth and spontaneous vaginal hospital births across 3 countries: the US, the Netherlands and England. ... See MoreSee Less
COVID-19 interruptions
COVID-19 restrictions have presented many challenges to educators and expectant parents. The good news is that many innovations are helping to overcome the barriers. See our COVID-19 message to educators and expectant parents.