We express our appreciation to all the women who took the time to respond to the IMAgiNE EURO voluntary online survey. We thank the WHO Collaborating Centre for Maternal and Child Health (Italy) for including the Norwegian team in the project. A special thanks to the IMAgiNE EURO study group and partners who helped to develop and disseminate the questionnaire in a range of languages and made them available for women in the WHO European Region.

IMAgiNE EURO Study Group, April 2022

Bosnia-Herzegovina: Amira Ćerimagić1

Croatia: Daniela Drandić2, Magdalena Kurbanović3

France: Rozée Virginie4, Elise de La Rochebrochard4, Kristina Löfgren5

Germany: Céline Miani6, Stephanie Batram-Zantvoort6, Lisa Wandschneider6

Italy: Sandra Morano7

Israel: Ilana Chertok8,9, Rada Artzi-Medvedik10

Latvia: Elizabete Pumpure11,12, Dace Rezeberga11,12, Dārta Jakovicka13, Agnija Vaska14, Gita Jansone-Šantare11,12, Anna Regīna Knoka13, Katrīna Paula Vilcāne14

Lithuania: Alina Liepinaitienė15, Andželika Kondrakova15, Marija Mizgaitienė16, Simona Juciūtė16

Luxembourg: Maryse Arendt17, Barbara Tasch17,18

Poland: Barbara Baranowska19, Urszula Tataj-Puzyna19, Maria Węgrzynowska19

Portugal: Raquel Costa20,21,22, Catarina Barata23, Teresa Santos24,25, Carina Rodrigues20,21, Heloísa Dias26

Romania: Marina Ruxandra Otelea27,28

Serbia: Jelena Radetić29, Jovana Ružičić29

Slovenia: Zalka Drglin30, Barbara Mihevc Ponikvar30, Anja Bohinec30

Spain: Serena Brigidi31, Lara Martín Castañeda32

Sweden: Helen Elden33,34, Karolina Linden33, Mehreen Zaigham35, Verena Sengpiel 33,34

Switzerland: Claire de Labrusse36, Alessia Abderhalden-Zellweger36, Anouck Pfund36, Harriet Thorn36, Susanne Grylka37, Michael Gemperle37, Antonia Mueller37

Affiliations

1NGO Baby Steps, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina

2Roda – Parents in Action, Zagreb, Croatia

3Faculty of Health Studies, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia.

4Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Research Unit, Institut National d’Études Démographiques (INED), Paris, France

5Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative (IHAB), France

6Department of Epidemiology and International Public Health, School of Public Health, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

7Medical School and Midwifery School, Genoa University, Genoa, Italy

8Ohio University, School of Nursing, Athens, Ohio, USA

9Ruppin Academic Center, Department of Nursing, Emek Hefer, Israel

10Department of Nursing, The Recanati School for Community Health Professions, Faculty of Health Sciences at Ben-Gurion University (BGU) of the Negev, Israel

11Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Riga Stradins University, Rīga, Latvia

12Riga Maternity Hospital, Latvia

13Faculty of Medicine, Riga Stradins University, Rīga, Latvia

14Faculty of Public Health and Social Welfare, Riga Stradins University, Latvia

15Kaunas University of Applied Sciences, Lithuania

16Kaunas Hospital of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Lithuania

17Beruffsverband vun de Laktatiounsberoderinnen zu Lëtzebuerg asbl (Professional Association of Lactation Consultants in Luxembourg), Luxembourg, Luxembourg

18Neonatal intensive care unit, KannerKlinik, Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

19Department of Midwifery, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland

20EPIUnit - Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal (FCT; UIDB/04750/2020)

21Laboratório para a Investigação Integrativa e Translacional em Saúde Populacional (ITR), Porto, Portugal (FCT; LA/P/0064/2020)

22Lusófona University / HEI-Lab: Digital Human-environment Interaction Labs, Portugal (FCT; UIDB/05380/2020)

23Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

24Universidade Europeia, Lisboa, Portugal

25Plataforma CatólicaMed/Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar em Saúde (CIIS) da Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal.

26Regional Health Administration of the Algarve, IP (ARS - Algarve), Portugal

27University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila, Bucharest, Romania.

28SAMAS Association, Bucharest, Romania

29Centar za mame, Belgrade, Serbia

30National Institute of Public Health, Ljubljana, Slovenia

31Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work. Medical Anthropology Research Center (MARC). Rovira i Virgili University (URV), Tarragona, Spain

32Institut Català de la Salut, Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain

33Institute of Health and Care Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

34Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Region Västra Götaland, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden

35Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Institution of Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund and Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

36School of Health Sciences (HESAV), HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland

37Institute of Midwifery, School of Health Professions, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences