POSTPARTUM CARE

Professional support for a successful introduction to family life

In the first 6 weeks after childbirth, mothers enter the early and late stages of recovery and babies start to continually adjust to their new surroundings outside the womb.

First and foremost, it’s a period characterised by getting to know each other and develop a trusting bond. A time during which mothers and fathers enter their new roles and establish a new daily schedule for the family, which requires caring support.

It marks an exciting, often surprising and incredibly challenging phase on the journey to becoming a family. Patience and optimism are key to help new parents confidently apply everything they have learned and intuitively understand their baby’s signals and needs. Mothers require a high level of support and care to help their bodies recover, balance their hormones and finally get a good night’s sleep, at least gradually.

Benefit from my 15 years of experience and resulting services to guide you through this often stressful transition between pregnancy and parenthood and enjoy some relief during the highly intimate postpartum period.

Professional support for a successful introduction to family life

In the first 6 weeks after childbirth, mothers enter the early and late stages of recovery and babies start to continually adjust to their new surroundings outside the womb.

Irene

Ilka ist nicht nur eine grossartige Hebamme, die uns mit praktischen Tipps, viel Ruhe und Erfahrung im Wochenbett kompetent begleitet hat, sondern allgemein ein wunderbarer Mensch. Man sieht, dass es für sie nicht „nur“ ein Beruf ist, sondern dass sie die ganze Familie wahrnimmt und ihre Arbeit mit Herzblut macht. Bereits lächelnd betrat sie unsere Wohnung und brachte so viel positive Energie in unser Zuhause. Liebevoll ist sie mit unserer Tochter umgegangen und für uns hatte sie immer ein offenes Ohr für unsere Sorgen und nahm sich die Zeit, all unsere Fragen zu beantworten.

Nadine

Ilka Hat uns bei unserem vierten Kind im Wochenbett betreut und wir waren super zufrieden. Besonders toll fand ich ihre unglaublich einfühlsame Art und ihr grosses Fachwissen. Obwohl es bereits meine vierte Schwangerschaft war, konnte sie mir sehr viele neue und wertvolle Tipps und Anregungen geben. Anders als bei den vorgängigen Hebammen hat sie sehr viel Fokus auf die Rückbildung gelegt und mich bereits im Wochenbett überzeugt und motiviert dieses Thema weiter zu verfolgen. Zurzeit geniesse ich den Pilates-Rückbildungskurs mit Ilka, der mir sehr guttut.

Sena

Ilka is such a midwife who provides care that makes you find your best options in the times you feel you are lost. She is always optimistic and makes you believe yourself as well with such a good and well advised support! She was my afterbirth midwife for my daughter and i was lucky enough to have her as my afterbirth midwife for my son too. Best of luck Ilka, you are the best!

Jessica

With Ilka we had a perfect companion in our life as a threesome. So much is new in the situation, so much is unfamiliar and with many things you are unsure. With her calm, professional manner, her experience and her “always-ready attitude”, Ilka managed to bring security and routine into our new life. Whether it was phone calls still from the hospital, her first visit to us on the day of hospital discharge – to give us security for the first night – or her valuable tips and instructions on early postnatal exercises (a very important topic that unfortunately not every midwife addresses), we felt super cared for with Ilka and would immediately choose her again as a midwife! Thank you dear Ilka!

My postpartum services:

Topics related to babies:

Advice and help with the baby’s feeding method selected by the mother (breastfeeding, mixed feeding, formula milk)

Guidance and recommendations for baby care (from shampoo to soreness), in addition to infant handling methods to help promote motor development and simple tummy massage techniques

New-born sleep behaviour and establishing a safe daytime and night-time sleep environment

New-born temperature requirements (clothes, swaddling, sleeping bags, etc.)

Communicative capabilities and emotional relationships with new-borns (wonder, restlessness, crying), carrying methods

Weight management and blood sample collection, if necessary

Interdisciplinary collaboration with paediatricians and, if necessary, osteopathy, craniosacral, chiropractic or paediatric physiotherapy professionals

Topics related to mothers and parenthood:

Breastfeeding advice on milk production, lactation maintenance, breast care; nutrition during the breastfeeding period; supportive measures for breastfeeding issues, if necessary, in collaboration with IBCLC breastfeeding/lactation consultants

Determination of useful alternatives for the recovery process and wound healing

Advice on postures to improve your pelvic floor; introducing exercises to increase your awareness of your pelvic floor muscle, activate the pelvic floor and stabilise your upright posture; stretching exercises for the shoulder area and lower back

Monitoring diastasis recti and initial therapeutic measures

Advice and determination of potential mental changes during and after the postpartum period

Working as a team; advice on sexuality and contraception after birth

Advice on basic questions from nursing working mothers in relation to labour law

Interdisciplinary collaboration with gynaecologists, parent counsellors, childcare services, pelvic floor therapists and occupational therapists, etc.

Services covered by basic health insurance

Compulsory health insurance covers full payment for the postpartum period.

You are entitled to 16 visits within 56 days for your first child, and 10 visits within the same period for your second child.