Swiss Birth Stories

Our mission is to share diverse birth stories from across Switzerland in a way that empowers the storyteller.
We aim to create a supportive space where each person is in control of their own narrative. By recording and sharing birth stories in Switzerland, we hope to inspire those planning their own...

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May 26, 2026

S03E08 Kaitlin: From Textbook to the ICU. Preeclampsia, HELLP, and Finding Your Footing Postpartum

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 ...

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April 9, 2026

S03E07 Valentina: Hyperemesis, Sibling Bonds, Induction, Home Birth Transfer, Breast Feeding, Tandem Feeding and Knowing Your Rights.

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...

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March 23, 2026

S03E06 Lisa: From Recurring Loss to Hard Choices to Motherhood. A Rare Diagnosis, Donor Egg IVF Across Borders, and a Birth That Tested Every Limit.

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...

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March 12, 2026

S03E05 Giulia: Long Labour, Unplanned Cesarean Birth and A Diagnosis of Hirschsprung's Disease

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...

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March 3, 2026

S03E04 Kateryna: Choosing Home Birth in Switzerland

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?"...

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Feb. 11, 2026

S03E03 Emily: From Infertility due to PCOS to Joy, Support and Healing.

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...

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Jan. 29, 2026

S03E02 Ana: A Heart-Shaped Uterus, Walking Epidural and Finding Her Power

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 ...

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Jan. 8, 2026

S03E01 Diana: 2 Births in Zurich- A Fast First Hospital Birth And A Taxi Delivery For Her Second Baby

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...

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Dec. 11, 2025

S02E13 Sara: The Power Of Words, Choices and Care. Two Different Births, One in Denmark, Another in Switzerland.

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 ...

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Nov. 26, 2025

S02E12 Andrea: What If Your Second Birth Rewrites Your First? How A Fast First Labour, Postpartum Hemorrhage, And Hashimoto’s Led To An Empowered Second Birth

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...

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