Our approach

As a queerfeminist midwife collective we want to combine our practical midwifery work with our political convictions.

We would like to invite a wide variety of people (in their individual family concepts) to let us accompany them from the desire to have a child, through pregnancy, home birth and postpartum to the end of breastfeeding or the first year of life.

It is important to us that (expectant) families are accompanied in this exciting phase of life in an appreciative and sensitive manner and that their individual wishes and needs are seen, heard and respected.

In order to view and experience this process as a healthy and physiological process, we consider competent, low-intervention and resource-oriented midwifery support to be of upmost importance.

We see every person we accompany on this exciting and unique path as an expert of themselves. Therefore, it is especially important to us to recognise individual resources and needs, and to respond to them and promote them. With our evidence-based expertise, we want to make decisions together and thus accompany our clients on the path of their awareness of their body, confidence and self-determination. The basis for this is the establishment of a respectful, trusting and low hierarchical relationship and the creation of a safe, open and sensitive space for all involved.

Our goal is to contribute a (small) part with our work so that people can look back empowered on the experience of pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period.

We are sensitive to various forms of discrimination during this special phase of life, in which heteronormative, patriarchal and racist structures and roles can be particularly impactful and burdensome. For this, more mindful protective spaces are needed and we want to create such a space. We see ourselves in a process in which we never stop learning, especially from our clients.

In summary, queer feminist midwifery means for us to have a queer- and trans-sensitive, sex-positive, body-positive and intersectional political understanding.

We do all of this better when we also pay attention to our own well-being. That's why collegial and mindful teamwork, mutual respect for boundaries, and an overall collaborative and solidarity-based attitude is very important to us. For us, these ideas are embodied in the term "collective". Regular, up-to-date training and inter- and intradisciplinary exchange continuously supplement our midwifery knowledge.