My services for self-determined pregnant women, freebirthers and young families

 

I offer you telephone and online counselling as a birthkeeper to accompany, advise and support you on your path throughout pregnancy, birth, and the first weeks as a parent. 

 

I am happy and willing to help families who wish for an unattended birth, also known as a freebirth. 

 

I offer you an introductory conversation free of charge.

 

You can choose from the following packages:

 

PREGNANCY PACKAGE

 

I accompany you throughout your pregnancy, answer your questions, and support you during personal conversations. You will receive individually tailored information and I will help you to get to the point where you feel well prepared for the upcoming birth and new life as a parent.

 

Frequent topics of conversation include:

  • pre-natal examinations
  • pregnancy ailments and how to treat them 
  • transforming fears
  • nutritional counselling
  • discussing birth preparation options such as teas, acupuncture, yoga, hypnobirthing
  • signs of approaching birth
  • how to make labour and birth as pleasant, safe and enjoyable as possible 
  • the process of birth
  • birth positions
  • water birth 
  • VBAC
  • place of birth (home birth, birth centre, hospital)
  • different birth companions (midwives, doctors, doulas...)
  • unattended birth and, if desired, preparation for it
  • breastfeeding
  • newborn screening
  • anti-D
  • vitamin K
  • vitamin D

Cost: 777 Euros

 

POST PARTUM PACKAGE

 

I help you during pregnancy to prepare for the postpartum period. In the postpartum period, I am available for all your questions, with good availability, initially in daily conversations, then as needed. 

 

Frequent topics of conversation include:

  • well-being of mum and baby
  • breastfeeding
  • baby's behaviour, development, temperature and skin colour
  • baby's excretions (urine and bowel movements)
  • healing of the umbilical cord
  •  involution of the uterus
  • post partum bleeding
  • healing of birth injuries such as a perineal tear, episiotomy or caesarean section
  • newborn screening
  • anti-D
  • vitamin K
  • vitamin D

Cost: 777 Euro

 

 

FULL PACKAGE

 

VERY SUITABLE FOR FREEBIRTHERS

INCLUDES BOTH THE PREGNANCY AND THE POST PARTUM PACKAGE AND IN ADDITION BEING ON CALL FOR YOU AND ACCOMPANYING YOU BY PHONE DURING THE BIRTH 

 

The full package includes everything that is included in the pregnancy and post partum package and in addition I am on call for you from 37 weeks of pregnancy. During labour and birth I am available by phone for all your questions and for support and accompaniment. 

 

Frequently asked questions during labour, birth include:

  • start of labour
  • rupture of membranes
  • contractions, their pattern, frequency and intensity
  • ideas to help with labour
  • the course of the birth
  • any interventions/medical help that may be needed
  • well-being of the mother and the baby in the womb

After the birth of the baby common questions include:

  • baby's well-being, condition, behaviour, colour, breathing, temperature
  • mother's well-being, condition, bleeding
  • any birth injuries
  • birth of the placenta 
  • completeness of the placenta
  • any interventions/medical help needed
  • initiating breastfeeding

Costs: 2222 Euro

 

 


Pictures on this page: 

Nina Rinkes pregnant with her second child (picture by Eckhard Czarnowski)

Janaina with Gaia and Lidita in the post partum period (picture by Janaina) 

Erin with family after their water freebirth (picture by Erin West)