half past nine in the morning in Berlin Mitte

We sit at the table for a normal house visit to a typical “middle of the family “, a multinational, multilingual, prosperous, and formed one Morning at half past ten in Berlin. We are the Couple with their newborn, the Doula, and lactation consultant, the neuralgia is a therapist, an acupuncture expert from China, and I, the midwife. Breastfeeding didn’t work properly. Not so, as the contributions from the colorful and beautiful Instagram Community to suggest and the expectations are high. 5 approaches to a solution sit here at the table, in the middle of Berlin. A shambles of Knowledge and know-it -. The impact of the herpetic neuralgia therapy, of which I had never heard of and which I need to Google it, it shows me little useful information.

This treatment is a deep massage of the chest, to dissolve blocks. Quite a painful procedure, the deep blue of the hematoma on the glandular tissue of the breast of the woman leaves.  acupuncture set of needles, the lactation consultant explains your strategy for the improvement of milk production and the Doula their approaches to nutrition. Approach number 6, the Osteopath, who can make the morning a visit is possible.

The fresh-baked father writes diligently the instructions. With a little distance, this scenario reminds me of the fun old Italian movies, in which all sitting at the table talking and somehow always a mess, but funny, it’s not here. Eventually, I take my Chance and go out with the Baby, and the father in the next room, to weigh the newborn. Quietly, the man closes the door. He looks at me and asks: What do you say, what is happening here? Do you think that we are trapped in the Consultation? I’m thinking for a moment before I answer. Now these people are here because you asked for help and the Right want to do. Advice is a difficult word is the case, but I understand what you mean with all of the promises Offered, the fast help from a professional promise. In vain that’s not All . 

The next day, during the home visit, I am, as always, the other sitting at the table, even if only virtually. I must introduce me now, who advises there with? I start to research what offers there are, who provides them, and of course, who should pay how much.

I put myself in a far-flung network of services around pregnancy and birth, the advertise with succulent prices, and colorful images, to win the favor of the Pregnant woman. Amazed, I find numerous offers training courses for women, which are intended to accompany the Pregnant women and mums and advice. Midwives, it is not enough, and, well, the Few that have anyway, no time, and you would be close to a real gap in the market. And straightway is shown how one can boost his sales really. The names of the institutions, academies and centres of excellence, sound impressive reputable. Medical training would not be necessary in order to carry out this work, and the Learning goes only online, in a lot of courses promise by Zoom. Health and Fitness, Engineer, Alone of birth, mentor, mom, Coach, mental preparation for Birth Coach, Baby and newborn Coach, Breastfeeding and Postpartum Coach, belly binding Coach, birth keeperin, Team breast milk, Breastfeeding a mentor, belly Whisperer and motherhood Doulas. They will show you what is important in the counseling of the Pregnant woman and the woman with the Baby. The Marketing works very well, because the courses are fully booked. The Followers Numbers are on the rise. There will be prizes, of which we midwives, as payment can only dream of. And we all know precisely that our work should be “vain ” even if it is not a performance, such as acupuncture or the fast Show, like a sling, so is. This is going to Be Accessible in the day-time and night as the normal exercise of a profession in quality.  Often heard in midwives talks to, how annoying that is for us, that for so many other things for money, but for our HEDGEHOG services, and only very hesitantly agrees.

Interdisciplinary an important part of the Work in my work, because I can’t know everything and can, quite apart from the side-effect is that you can always learn something from the other specialists. But what comes with this many Offered, in part, very clearly in our range of consulting services to us and, above all, why is that? It is soon, I’m a mom, a Coach, and what magic power do you have?

What are my colleagues, the upstairs every day and down the stairs to run and do their job, no matter what’s going on Out there in Instagram and who is also responsible for this woman and her Baby very virtually think?

Here is a voice of a colleague, who himself comes from a country where the work of the midwives is completely different than ours, which makes our System a very wonderful and important work.

“To be honest, I all think slow is normal that there is such a training, and to promote instead of the midwife. With more training, better pay, better conditions in the hospital. We will always have bad mood in the delivery room, when more and more women, only with people like themselves.  We all know that we are too little, that there are enough midwives, for circle hall and the postpartum period, but that is not the solution. We have to fight and our profession to protect this fucking training.

A colleague commented that: In the first Moment, I did not feel that someone deserves to be with the Pregnant money, we are the only midwives.

Other ladies and mothers go to the barricades and ask critical questions about the training. The comment function, the provider of the Accounts of the training is short, then turned off. Critical questions are obviously undesirable.