Most midwives offer comprehensive care, including prenatal and postnatal care. For optimal search results, please select “Postnatal care” in the services field. In the subsequent search results for midwife contacts, you can view the specific services offered by each midwife in more detail.
The postnatal care provided by your midwife covers the period from the day of birth until your child is 12 weeks old. The visits or telephone calls are paid for by the health insurance company.
In addition to medical and physical examinations of mother and child, postnatal care also includes advice on all issues that arise when dealing with the newborn and the new life situation. Support from the midwife during breastfeeding is also an important part of the postpartum period.
Postnatal and pregnancy advice can also be provided by telephone or as an online video meeting.
If you have a positive pregnancy test, you are entitled to midwife care. The extent to which this takes place is always individually tailored to your wishes and needs. The midwife will support you with the changes that pregnancy brings or with specific complaints. Your midwife will also listen to your worries and fears.
Pregnancy check-ups are carried out in accordance with the maternity guidelines. They can be carried out by the midwife independently and on her own responsibility or in cooperation with the gynecologist in charge. These examinations include checking the baby's heartbeat and determining the position of the baby. The expectant mother's physical changes and complaints are also monitored.
You are also entitled to midwife care in the event of a miscarriage. Your midwife can accompany you and support you both physically and psychologically in this situation.
For the birth of your child as part of a so-called attended birth, you and your midwife will go to a predetermined hospital where your midwife offers attended births. The costs for the birth attendance are covered by your health insurance. As the midwife will be on call for you, she will be charged an on-call fee, which you will have to pay in full or in part yourself.
If you give birth in a birthing center, your child will be born there under the supervision of a midwife. The same conditions apply for a birth there as for a home birth: the pregnancy must be risk-free and the course of the pregnancy must be free of complications. You will have to pay part of the costs for the on-call flat rate, which varies from region to region and from person to person - please speak to your health insurance provider about this.
A home birth can be considered if the pregnancy is risk-free and there are no complications. The supervising midwife will then come to your home and accompany you during the birth of your child in your own four walls.
The costs of home birth care are covered by health insurance. The midwife will be permanently available for you during the calculated birth period. You will have to pay part of the costs for the on-call flat rate, which varies from region to region and from person to person - please speak to your health insurance provider about this.
Women are also entitled to the care of a midwife in the event of a miscarriage, a medically necessary termination of pregnancy or the birth of a deceased child.
In such cases, the midwife can help them to come to terms with what has happened. Couples whose child has died before or after birth are also entitled to midwife support in the form of postnatal visits and advice.
Mothers are entitled to midwife support throughout the entire breastfeeding period - no matter how long it lasts. Even if you are not breastfeeding or are no longer breastfeeding, your entitlement to support from a midwife for questions and problems relating to the child's nutrition does not end until the child is nine months old.
During this time, the health insurance fund pays for up to eight contacts with the midwife in the form of visits or telephone calls.
Mothers are entitled to midwife support throughout the entire breastfeeding period - no matter how long it lasts. Even if you are not breastfeeding or are no longer breastfeeding, the entitlement to support from a midwife for questions and problems relating to the child's nutrition does not end until the child is nine months old.
During this time, the health insurance fund pays for up to eight contacts with the midwife in the form of visits or telephone calls.
Mothers are entitled to midwife support throughout the entire breastfeeding period - no matter how long it lasts. Even if you are not breastfeeding or are no longer breastfeeding, the entitlement to support from a midwife for questions and problems relating to the child's nutrition does not end until the child is nine months old.
During this time, the health insurance fund pays for up to eight contacts with the midwife in the form of visits or telephone calls.
