Birth Matters
is a roadmap to options during pregnancy and birth. Because Birth Matters!
Birthmatters.be offers choices by providing information, recent scientific insights and figures on birth care. In addition, we share birth stories, tips and stories of experience from parents, midwives and other birth workers.
Midwife?
Get to know us so that we can get to know you too!
The founders of BirthMatters.be are all midwives, experienced in the independent accompaniment of births and united by our passion for midwifery guided birth care.
To measure is to know – The childbirth statistics of the independent midwives working in Flanders and Brussels
How many labours and births in Belgium are midwife led and so guided and supported from start till the end by the independent midwife? Due to the current way in which birth registrations are happening, we simply don’t know. In the working group ‘midwife led care’,...
‘We go the extra mile’: about giving birth with your own midwife, at home or in hospital
Giving birth is something you should do in a hospital with a gynaecologist. Right? It is an option, there are so many possibilites! How about giving birth in a birth home with your own midwife? And did you know, for example, that you can also give birth in the...
Protocols versus personal choices: why choose a midwife?
After a positive pregnancy test, many Belgian women immediately call their general practitioner or gynaecologist for a 15-minute consultation. Midwife Lieve Huybrechts explains why midwives often take more than an hour and why couples choose this approach. Picture by...
Stories
Dive into these stories and get inspired!
Cléo’s birth story
My birth story.The most intense day of my life. I gave birth to my little miracle, Cléo, at 9.06 p.m. on 2 June 2020. I had no idea that this adventure would last 22 hours and would be of indescribable intensity would be.Picture by Kathleen Van VaerenberghOn the 1st...
Experiences of a student midwife
Picture by Marlies De VrieseThe hospital is a necessary learning environment for a midwifery student. You will learn the technical procedures that are essential to the profession (vaginal examination, blood sampling, infusion therapy, sondage, hygiene, sterility,...
Gallery
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These pure photos were all made by (birth)photographers with a warm heart for BirthMatters.be.
Noa & Laure figure it out
Find answers to the questions you didn’t know you had!
…Why it is better not to cut the umbilical cord immediately after birth
Quickly cut the umbilical cord after birth. This is still the reflex of many healthcare providers once the baby is lying on its mother's tummy. Such a shame. Research shows that it is better to wait at least a minute for this.Picture by Auke van de KerkhofThe baby has...
Call the midwife
Some midwives work solo, others group together and form a group practice. Via the link below you will find an overview of the midwives who offer midwife-led assisted birth care. Contact the midwife in your neighbourhood and walk this wonderful path together!
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