The midwifery practice
Links & downloads
Google: Pregnancy and nausea: ‘Zwanger en misselijk’, contractions app: ‘weeën app’, baby’s room: ‘babykamer’.
These days, we tend to get most of our information from the internet: Google, social media, and other websites. However, not all of these sources are reliable. Please bear that in mind.
Good Dutch websites include the site of the RIVM – De verloskundige (the midwife).
We have listed a few practical downloads and links about pregnancy plus a few fun books to read!
"Most people (89%) start their research into medical information through search engines such as Google. Only 7 percent checks the information given on a Patient Organisation website."
Pregnancy
Pregnancy checklist
Pregnant & general information
- Pregnant
- Acknowledgement
- Pregnancy and sex
- RIVM: Protect your baby against whooping cough
- Info 22-weeks vaccination + walk in clinics in your neighberhood
- 22 week vaccination walk in at the Birth Centre
- Feeling your baby move
- Monitor your baby’s growth
- Miscarriage
- Breech, what now?
- Breech and external version
Pregnant & nutrition
Pregnant and lifestyle
Pregnancy, tests & research
- All prenatal and newborn screening
- Pregnancy screening – blood test
- Screening for Down’s, Edwards’ and Patau’s syndromes
- Leaflets (5 languages): about the screening for Down syndrome, Edwards’ syndrome and Patau’s syndrome
- 13 weeks scan (for anomalies)
- 13 weeks scan consent form
- 20 weeks scan: Screening for physical abnormalities (anomaly scan)
- 13 + 20 weeks scan: Leaflets about anomaly scan: multiple languages
- NIPT consent form
- How to do the NIPT via Geboortecentrum
- Results NIPT via zwangerenportaal (Youtube)
- SALT laboratoria (at Echo Amsterdam)
- AIMS Studies
- Reinier Haga laboratoria (locations)
Apps & Instagram
- Sprout
- Rost moves mamas
- Doula
- Insta: defysiostudio
- Insta: sterkher
Pregnancy & Birth in Amsterdam
Films & Books
Films & Books
- Film: in utero
- Positive Birth Book – Milli Hill
- Give Birth Like a Feminist – Milli Hill
- To Have and To Hold – Molly Millwood
- The Fourth Trimester – Kimberly Ann Johnson
- Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth – Ina May Gaskin
Giving birth/delivery
Labour and birth information
- Information for your delivery – Birth Centre
- Make your own birthplan – Birth Centre + (online PDF example)
- Your birth: how to prepare for birth (multiple languages)
- The birth of your baby: how to deal with the pain (multiple languages)
- Giving birth in a bath/rent a bath
- Rent a bath option 2
- Breech and external version
- Bevalcentrum West
- Presentation Information session delivery
Youtube: information about birth
Checklist birth and baby essentials
Apps
Maternity/post-natal period and the first few months
Mother & baby
Latest peri-natal/maternity information from your midwife
After the birth & Parenthood
- De postnatal expert: mom groups & 1 on 1 coaching
Apps & Instagram
- Find a good app to keep track of your breastfeeding sessions
- Pregnancy pelvic floor plan
- Insta: sterkher
- Insta: defysiostudio