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 the yellow team.
Birth
If you do not have a medical indication then one of the midwives from Team 2 will provide the care during labor and delivery. This is the purple or yellow team, so aside from Melissa and Leanne this is Rofayda, Soraya, Remke or Maylis. 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
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Ellie
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Our experienced maternity nursesEllie and Elsa do all of the postpartum visits for the purple team. We strive to have at least one of the visits during the postpartum week to be done by one of the midwives from the purple team, if possible the midwife who attended the birth.
Ultrasounds
Maylis
Remke
All ultrasound scans (early viability scan, dating scan, 20-week, growth, fetal position) are made by one of Vida’s midwife sonographers. For the purple team this is Maylis Sanjuan and Remke Grootenhuis.
Together, we will discuss which ultrasound scans are applicable to your pregnancy.
Maylis and Remke also provide our contraception care. Aside from making ultrasounds, you will also see Maylis and Remke as midwives, and who knows, maybe even at your birth!
The ultrasound appointments take place at our location in Gezondheidscentrum Reigersbos.
Prenatal Consultations
Melissa and Leanne do prenatal consultations on various days. All of the appointments are at our locations at the health center Reigersbos.
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 1 will come to provide the care during your birth. This does not happen often.
