ABOUT ME
I am a qualified nurse since 2001 and qualified midwife since 2004. Until 2016 I was employed in various clinical obstetric settings in Freiburg im Breisgau/Germany, Dublin/Ireland and at the University Hospital Basel/Switzerland. Since October 2016 I have been working as a self-independant midwife in postpartum care and also offer various courses in English and German as a certified Polestar Pilates instructor (2017) and certified pelvic floor instructor (2018) in the city centre of Basel and in Arlesheim.
Continuous further education in pre/postnatal care, women’s health and family care substantiate my scientific-evidence-based way of working and help me to develop methodically and didactically. Within the framework of my additional activity in the education commission for the Midwives Association Beide Basel, I continue to be committed to the transfer of knowledge and the qualitative further development in the midwifery profession.
I am a mother of 2 children (14 and 11 years old) and I´m living with my family in Arlesheim.
Courses
- 15.09.2022
Use and application of Kinesio tape in midwifery care - 17./18.08.2022
Physiological postpartum care according to salutogenetic principles - 15.06.2022
Early childhood intervention network in Basel-Stadt - 22.01.2022
Milestones of the sensomotoric development of newborns within the first year of life - 24.11.2021
Midwifery care for traumatised refugees - 24.04.2021
Latest knowledge on breastfeeding
- 28.10.2020
Resuscitation (SRC-BLS-AED complete course) of mothers and babies in a non-clinical setting - 07.02. – 18.06.2020
Reflective practice – understanding science - 18.01.2020
BeBo® symposium – The pelvic floor as an interdisciplinary challenge with a focus on the pelvic floor under strain - 07.11.2019
The female pelvis after birth - 30.09.2018
‘Pilates mat goes round’ workshop - 15.09. – 02.12.2018
Certified pelvic floor instructor - 13.05.2018
Pre-&postnatal Pilates - 13.01.2018
26 Sexuality and contraception after birth
- 30.11.2017
23 The pelvic floor and birth – an avoidable conflict? - 09.11.2017
Polestar Pilates concept workshop LS, pelvis and pelvic floor - 04.03.2017
Pilates during recovery - 26.01.2017
KSBL ‘Postpartum issues’ training
- 06.10. – 07.10.2016
Breastfeeding during and after the initial stages of life; breastfeeding between hopes and reality - 22.09.2016
Interdisciplinary professional exchange ‘The early postpartum period’
- 23. – 24.06.2016
Recovery in the early and late postpartum period according to the Heller concept
UPCOMING Courses
- 02.12.2022
Urogynaecological problems in the pre- and postnatal period and preventive measures during labour - 31.03.2023
More variations in pelvic floor training
I am looking forward to you.

P: +41 77 430 76 03
M: info@ilka-ratschke.ch
COURSE LOCATIONS
Dachstockyoga
In der Schappe 18
4144 Arlesheim
www.dachstockyoga.ch
Raum für mehr
Nathalie Schärer
Schlüsselberg 10
4051 Basel
www.raum-fuer-mehr.ch