Keeping a midwife pregnant at the NFZ
Any woman whose pregnancy is physiological has the right to be guided by a midwife at the NFZ. The midwife, in accordance with the regulations of the Minister of Health, has the competence and knowledge to lead the pregnancy on her own.
Why choose a midwife?
- A midwife’s physiological pregnancy gives the woman the certainty of professional and friendly care.
- The midwife will also ensure continuity of care as she accompanies her mother both during the pregnancy and takes care of her and the baby during the first weeks after the birth.
Standard midwife’s visit
- During the first meeting: putting on a pregnancy card, recognizing the needs of the pregnant woman, ordering laboratory tests according to the Standard of Perinatal Care.
- Subsequent meetings: supplementation and analysis of laboratory tests, control of pressure, weight, vaginal pH, fetal movements, auscultation of the fetus’s heart rate, external examination, discussion of emerging ailments and natural ways of alleviating them, discussion of the correct diet, supplementation and physical activity, advice on alleviating anxiety and anxiety related to pregnancy/childbirth.
With the midwife at the end of the pregnancy, the birth plan is completed together and KTG tests are performed.
The midwife is obliged to refer a woman to a gynaecologist three times during pregnancy for ultrasound prenatal tests and always in case of abnormalities.
In our clinic, ultrasound examinations are performed by Dr Tomasz Michalik – an outstanding specialist in carrying out ultrasounds of the first, second and third trimester as well as high risk pregnancies.
Visits to the midwife usually take place once a month, at the end of pregnancy more often every 2 weeks.
What else falls within the competence of a midwife?
PREVENTIONAL CARE – the midwife can provide information on how to prepare the pregnancy properly, what tests to perform, what to look out for in terms of diet, supplementation and physical activity.
Pregnancy care – the midwife conducts, among others, free educational meetings for pregnant women.
CONSUMPTION OF AIR CONDITION – the midwife can carry out and accept a physiological birth on her own, both in hospital and at home.
PATHERSONAL VISITS – a postpartum midwife can take professional care of a woman in childbirth and her newborn baby. The midwife should visit the mother and child in their home at least 4 times. You can count on the midwife’s support until the baby is two months old.
SUPPORT FOR FIRST-feeding – the midwife also has the knowledge and competence to support the woman in breastfeeding, help solve problems, give lactation advice and promote natural feeding.
And also:
- Post-gynaecological or oncological-gynaecological surgery care
- SUPPORT during the menopause
- EDUCATION at every stage of life in the field of pro-healthy lifestyle, prevention of HIV infection and sexually transmitted diseases, cancer, obstetric pathologies.
