As a midwife I care for people through the process of family planning, the pregnancy and the postpartum time, as well as during the first year of the baby or until the weaning process. I consider those proceedings as physiological but also often challenging life-changes. The people I am allowed to support during this periods are experts for themselves and their individual needs. Therefore the background of my work is an appreciating and ressource-orientated support without hierarchy and a shared decision-making-process. I want to facilitate an empowering and self-determined journey through the beginning of parenthood and care on the basis of actual evidence and recommendations. In terms of the mandatory continuing education I regulary take part in skills trainings and workshops, I also work along quality standards and exchange experiences and information with colleagues and other professionals. I try to set up a safer space for everyone and I am constantly in a learning process concerning discrimination and other barriers. From my point of view, midwifery care is political, queer*feminist, intersectional and body-positiv and should be accessible for everyone. It is my aim to enable people to go through the process of family planning, pregnancy, childbed and early parenthood stronger and more self-competent.
