We are Zurich’s City Midwives

Since 2019, we have been supporting women and families in and around Zurich with competence and care throughout pregnancy and the postpartum period. Our additional training in birth preparation, breastfeeding, and acupuncture enables us to provide individualized check-ups and personal consultations.

Our philosophy.

Top priority of our work is the well-being and safety of mother and child in childbed.

Our goal.

To support each family individually, according to the needs and situation.


Services before giving birth

  • You can contact us early during pregnancy for a pregnancy check-up or a counseling session. Our primary focus is on individual support and counseling. We clarify your personal questions regarding pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period in addition to the medical check-ups.

    We ascertain the baby’s position by abdominal palpating (feeling), ensure whether it is growing appropriately for its age, and, if necessary, check its heartbeat.

  • Our team offers private antenatal classes in the comfort of your home. The health insurance pays a flat rate of 150 CHF. Our hourly rate is 120 CHF. For a private course, we calculate 2-3 hours.

    We explain the birth processes of both mother and child and address possible complications. The role of the partner/accompanying person and the time of the postpartum period are also important to us.

  • From the 36th week of pregnancy until the birth, one session per week is ideal for achieving optimal results. Through the acupuncture of four to five specific points, the treatment achieves the following results:

    • Shortened opening phase (more than 2 hours for first-time mothers) due to maturation of the cervix and the neck of the womb.

    • Good coordination of contractions in the opening phase (efficient, regular contractions)

    • Positive influence on heartburn, sleep disorders, edemata, pain during pregnancy

    The prerequisite for acupuncture treatment in preparation for the birth is a normal pregnancy, free of complications.

    Acupuncture for pregnancy and postpartum health problems:

    • Hyperemesis (severe vomiting during pregnancy)

    • Numbness in the hands (carpal tunnel syndrome)

    • Back pain/sciatica

    • Water retention in hands and legs (edemata)

    • For the reversal of a breech presentation (BEL) between the 33rd and 35th week of pregnancy using moxibustion

    • Heartburn

    • Premature labor

    • Induction of labor

    • Regression problems of the uterus

    • Promotion of milk production

    • Painful lactogenesis (secretion of milk)

    • Blocked milk ducts (galactostasis)

    • Edemata

    • Digestive problems

    Each treatment takes about 45 to 60 minutes. The costs coverage may depend on your supplementary health insurance. Please contact your health insurance provider in advance.

    Costs: CHF 100 per hour.

    • Hyperemesis (severe vomiting during pregnancy)

    • Numbness in the hands (carpal tunnel syndrome)

    • Back pain/sciatica

    • Water retention in hands and legs (edemata)

    • For the reversal of a breech presentation (BEL) between the 33rd and 35th week of pregnancy using moxibustion

    • Heartburn

    • Premature labor

    • Induction of labor

    • Regression problems of the uterus

    • Promotion of milk production

    • Painful lactogenesis (secretion of milk)

    • Blocked milk ducts (galactostasis)

    • Edemata

    • Digestive problems

    Each treatment takes about 45 to 60 minutes. The costs coverage may depend on your supplementary health insurance. Please contact your health insurance provider in advance.

    Costs: CHF 100 per hour.

Services after giving birth

  • Ab dem zweiten Kind sind es 10 Besuche ausser bei oben genannten Ausnahmen. Wir überwachen den Gesundheitszustand von Mutter und Kind und helfen bei alltäglichen Fragen rund um das Baby und die neue Lebenssituation. Wir arbeiten vernetzt mit Kinderärzten, Gynäkologen, Osteopathen und auch Mütter- und Väterberatung zusammen.

  • We offer targeted breastfeeding advice for special breastfeeding situations or advise you on questions about employment and breastfeeding, the introduction of supplementary food, weaning or general breastfeeding or breast problems. Your health insurance pays for 3 breastfeeding consultations from the 10th postpartum day until your child is 2 years old.

  • After childbirth, the body needs rest and recovery, and after a few weeks, gentle exercise to strengthen the pelvic floor, abdominal muscles, and lower back as well. In the early confinement we will show you specific perception exercises for the pelvic floor. We attach particular importance to determining the type and size of a rectus diastasis. We will show you gentle exercises for this.

    If more therapy is needed, we work with specialist agencies.

  • The low-level laser therapy is a side effect-free regulation therapy, which is used to reactivate the metabolic activity in the body and to stimulate the self-healing powers. Low-level laser light is a light with special properties. It is very energetic and can be visible or invisible. The low-level laser therapy influences the metabolism of the cells and thus promotes the defense against diseases and their healing. With the therapy laser, no heat is generated and neither tissue is removed nor destroyed. The application is therefore completely painless and free of side effects if used correctly. This form of therapy can therefore be used in a wide variety of areas:

    • Sore nipples

    • Plugged milk ducts and mastitis

    • Haemorrhoids

    • Poorly healing episiotomy or perineal laceration

    • Poorly healing Caesarean scar

    Costs

    The therapy lasts about 15 minutes each time and costs CHF 25.00 per application. Low-level laser therapy is not covered by health insurance.

 

We look forward to

hearing from you.