Postnatal care
During postnatal care, I will support you and your newborn for the first 8 weeks. In this phase you will experience a great emotional, physical and social change and therefore it is important that you are cared for professionally yet with a personal touch.
The costs of postpartum care by a nurse are covered 80% by the basic insurance of your health insurance company and 10% by the community according to the law of care financing Zurich. You have to pay 10% (maximum CHF 8.00 per day) yourself.
Postpartum care includes the following services:
With your baby:
- Vital signs and weight control
- Umbilical care
- Infant handling / developmental care
- Blood samples such as Guthrie test, bilirubin value
- Follow-up discussion with the newborn about the birth
- Re - bonding (medicinal bath)
With you:
- Wound healing and regression control
- Remove clamps after caesarean section
- Blood draws
- Breastfeeding advice / breastfeeding positions
- Nipple care
- Breast control
- Consultations on the pelvic floor, body awareness, sexuality
- Postnatal exercises