Midwifery Care
Check-up appointments
In the beginning of your pregnancy you will come about once a month for a check-up. This will increase in frequency until the end of your pregnancy when you will come once a week. At essentially all of your appointments you will see one of us. It may happen that due to our appointment schedule or your own schedule it may be more convenient to have your check-up with Team Venserpolder/Holland Park.
Birth
If you do not have a medical indication then one of the midwives from Team 1 will provide the care during labor and delivery. This is Team Diemen or Team Venserpolder/Holland Park, so aside from Thessa and Emma and this is Ellie or Lotte. Depending on your preferences this can be at home or in the hospital. We have a lot of experience with water births. We change shifts for who is on-call for deliveries every 24 hours.
Postpartum Week
Elsa
Paula
Our experienced maternity nurses Elsa en Paula do all of the postpartum visits for Team Diemen. We strive to have at least one of the visits during the postpartum week to be done by one of the midwives from Team Diemen, if possible the midwife who attended the birth.
Ultrasounds
Marike
Maria
All ultrasound scans (early viability scan, dating scan, 20-week, growth, fetal position) are made by one of Vida’s midwife sonographers. For Team Diemen this is Marike Nijman and Maria Hoenderdos.
Together, we will discuss which ultrasound scans are applicable to your pregnancy.
Aside from performing ultrasounds, you may also see Maria as your regular midwive, and who knows, perhaps even at your birth! Maria and Emma will also become familiar faces during our sessions about labour and delivery.
All ultrasounds scans take place at our location in De Brede Hoed in Diemen.
Prenatal Consultations
Thessa and Emma do prenatal consultations on various days. All of the appointments are at the health center De Brede Hoed in Diemen.
Availability
Your midwife is reachable 24/7 for births and emergencies. If the midwife is already busy with a delivery then another Vida midwife from team 2 will come to provide the care during your birth. This does not happen often.
