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Send us Fan Mail Kaitlin's resources are below this description. Her pregnancy is “textbook” until a routine late-pregnancy check reveals high blood pressure and protein in urine, and suddenly every day feels like a decision ...

Send us Fan Mail Valentina's resources are below this description Born on a tiny river boat in Colombia during a tropical storm, Valentina grows up across continents and later lands in Switzerland working in maternal health a...

Send us Fan Mail Lisa's resources are below this description What an episode. When Lisa is told again and again that her recurring miscarriages are “just bad luck,” she knows that's not it. She follows her intuition, pushes f...

Send us Fan Mail Giulia's resources are below. Wow, what a story. You will want to stick around for the postpartum discussion and her incredibly brilliant moment which left not a dry eye on the recording that day. A birth pla...

Send us Fan Mail Kateryna's resources are below this description What happens when a healthcare system’s “just in case” meets a mother’s calm, clear questioning: “what’s actually happening right now?”, "How is my baby doing?"...

Send us Fan Mail Emily's resources and contact info are below this description : After five years of trying, Emily and her husband's fertility journey ends not with another treatment cycle, but with an act of surrender and fa...

Send us Fan Mail Ana's resources are under this description. A clear plan helps, but the real story begins when birth asks you to adapt. Anna joins us from Zurich to share how she chose motherhood on her own terms, navigated ...

Send us Fan Mail Diana's resources are below this description: What happens when labour quickly goes from quiet to unstoppable and the only “birth room” around has four doors and a meter running? We sit down with Diana, a Bra...

Send us Fan Mail Sara is a researcher and doula in Zurich, her own website and her resources are below this description. What if the difference between a hard birth and a healing one was a few well-chosen words, a handful of ...

Send us Fan Mail Andrea's resources are below this description. A birth can change your life. Two births can change your map. Andrea, a teacher and author living in Lenzburg, opens up about a first labour that moved faster th...

Send us Fan Mail Ladina's resources are at the end of this description. Plans rarely survive contact with labour, and that’s exactly where this story shines. We sit down with Ladina, a Swiss parent who grew up in the US and B...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is a must listen for every pregnancy. Henar's story of finding answers, self-advocacy, hard work and tenacity, as well as leaning in when things went differently than planned holds lessons for ev...

Send us Fan Mail Joanna is a small business owner living in Glarus with her family. She owns Moon and June, a non-alcoholic apertif made in Switzerland. Her resources are below this description. A decade can change everything...

Send us Fan Mail Maggie Wyss, PhD, is a researcher, writer, and international health expert exploring the intersection of gender, health, and society. Her work is centered on how women navigate complex decisions, particularly...

Send us Fan Mail Kristina's resources are below this desription If you’re craving a nuanced, practical take on birth, breastfeeding, and entrepreneurship/work- light on dogma, big on real-life problem-solving then this is the...

Send us Fan Mail Josefina is a certified pre- and postnatal yoga teacher and a pregnancy and postpartum corrective exercise specialist (PCES) living in Appenzell, Switzerland. Her resources are at the end of this episode's d...

Send us Fan Mail Gülkiz' resources are below A wrong email address reshaped an entire birth story. We sat down with a scientist‑mum whose path wound from Berlin’s buzz to Zurich’s quiet trails, through months of trying to con...

Send us Fan Mail Johanna's resources (including her website and new podcast) are below this description The journey to motherhood transforms us in ways we never expect. For Joanna, an Australian expat living in Switzerland, w...

Send us Fan Mail Marie's resources are available at the end of this description- including a discount for her online prenatal yoga series! What happens when careful preparation meets the unpredictable reality of childbirth? M...

Send us Fan Mail Danielle's resources are below this description What happens when your carefully planned birth center delivery takes an unexpected turn? Danielle's journey from New York to Switzerland, and from birth house t...

Send us Fan Mail Sonja's resources are below this description When an ultrasound technician uttered the words "his neck is sick" during a routine 12-week scan, Sonia's world tilted on its axis. What should have been a joyful ...

Send us Fan Mail Clare's resources are below, after this description. Clare shares her story of giving birth to her second child in Switzerland after moving from the UK, highlighting the differences between birth systems and ...

Send us Fan Mail Simone's resources below Simone shares her remarkable journey of giving birth to her two sons in two different countries (the Netherlands and Switzerland), revealing how cultural and systemic differences prof...

Send us Fan Mail See Veronica's resources under this description Veronica shares her journey of giving birth in the midwifery led program at Stadtspital Triemli in Zurich, including a "dream birth" and a surgical repair of a ...