The Peribass association aims to strengthen young families around childbirth and create a service that is systematically linked to existing perinatal healthcare services and early childhood intervention. Furthermore, the service provides a validated interactive app that helps parents assess their potential ...

IMAgiNE EURO (Improving MAternal Newborn carE In the EURO Region), coordinated by the WHO Collaborating center of the Child Referral Hospital and Research Institute (IRCCS) Burlo Garofolo Trieste is a project based on a network of currently 20 countries. It includes two online surveys (one for mothers, the other for ...

The innovative antenatal care service zäme schwanger is offered by Hebamme unterwegs in cooperation with the Thetriz lab at ZHAW. It is planned that the pilot programme "zäme schwanger" (hereafter service) will be disseminated and implemented throughout Switzerland by Hebamme unterwegs and other midwifery practices. ...

Motivation/Rational Given the rapid change in the health care capacity and demand land-scape globally, looking at international collaboration for health professional education is key to success to meet future challenges nurses and midwives will be confronted with. The School of Health Sciences ZHAW has engaged in ...

Background Family-centred practice, an approach in which intervention is directed at the whole family, is now considered "state of the art" in paediatric early intervention. Studies have shown that children develop best in a supportive family where the needs of all family members are addressed. The goal of ...

Background Pregnant women experience early labour as the first phase of labour with different physical and emotional symptoms. Early admission to hospital has been found to be associated with increased intervention and caesarean section rates. However, primiparous women often contact the hospital before labour ...

With the Covid 19 pandemic, the digital future has become the present: In the short term, interventions with physical presence have been replaced by interventions at a distance. The effectiveness of these interventions has little been researched, the legal requirements have not been conclusively clarified and are ...

Since the introduction of Swiss Diagnosis Related Groups (SwissDRG), the new tariff system for acute somatic inpatient hospital services, hospital stays after childbirth have shortened and accordingly outpatient postpartum care services provided by midwives have gradually gained more importance. It is therefore ...

Sexual life is an important part of woman’s health. Childbirth is a stressful event, which can affect female sexual quality of life. Sexual dysfunction is prevalent in the postpartum period and might have adverse consequences on health and wellbeing but also burden the relationship. The sexuality after having given ...

The consumption of alcohol during pregnancy and breastfeeding is a public health issue characterized by uncertainty regarding the effects of a low or moderate intake. Health policy-makers have adopted a precautionary approach and recommend complete abstinence from alcohol as the safest choice. In this context, ...

The Swiss Federation of Midwives (SHV/FSSF) has been recording the activities and services of independent midwives throughout Switzerland since 2005. The goal of this survey is quality assurance. This data is evaluated annually using descriptive statistics and published in an extensive report and/or a flyer. In ...

Familystart Zurich is a non-profit association which was established in May 2015. The association promotes a needs-based support of midwives for families and new-borns. Familystart uses its resources for the arrangement of postpartum care, for promoting a healthy start in life for new-borns and their families, for ...

Midwives are qualified to care independently for women and their children during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period and to consult professionals in case of deviations from the physiological process. In practise there are clear indications for discrepancies between the competences of the midwives and ...

We are translating into German plain language summaries of Cochrane reviews about midwifery geared towards a lay audience jointly with Cochrane Switzerland. These summaries are provided free of charge and can most easily be retrieved online via "Cochrane Kompakt”. The systematic reviews summarize all existing ...

Midwives in Switzerland accompany women and families during pregnancy and childbirth up to eight weeks after birth. During this time they not only attend the mother during labour and birth, they also promote the health of the mother and her child and support parents in caring for their newborn child. During the ...

Pregnant migrant women and their families might be affected by a double stressor compared to non-migrant women, stemming from the maternal adjustment process but also from coping with living in a foreign country, limited communication or the uncertainty of their residence status. An increased maternal and child ...

Aim: To develop a model of the emerging expectations of the mode of giving birth and the subsequent experiences of healthy primigravid women in Switzerland. Research questions: What are healthy primigravid women’s expectations in early pregnancy of giving birth? How do these expectations change during pregnancy? ...