Registerd midwife Rebeka Švecová
Midwife Rebeka
I am a midwife (PA) and mother of three children, Anezka, Otik and František. Together with my husband we live in Prague.
At the age of four I told my mother that I would be a midwife. After high school I weighed whether medicine would be more interesting, but I was looking forward to accompanying women in normal, natural childbirth, before and after. That's why I became a midwife.
As a community midwife, I now independently care for women with healthy pregnancies, births and postpartum. I can guide you through any of these periods or support you through them on a one-off basis.
I am registered with the Ministry of Health as a health care worker working independently without professional supervision and am licensed to provide health care services as a midwife in the form of home care.
I regularly attend professional seminars as part of continuing education and participate in professional supervision with other midwifery colleagues.
I am also a member of the czech largest professional organization of midwives - Unie porodních asistentek.
I studied midwifery at the Vysoká škola zdravotnická in Prague. During my internship I had the opportunity to look under the hood of most of Prague's maternity hospitals and after graduation I joined ÚPMD - Podolí. There I gradually worked in most of the wards where pregnant women or those who have already given birth are cared for. After some time, I got pregnant myself and experienced the delivery room and everything afterwards from the side of the woman giving birth, the mother.
After my first birth I went on maternity leave, but this also meant many educational courses that took me many steps further in how women can be cared for in pregnancy, during and after birth. Throughout my subsequent pregnancies I became even more aware of the importance of care not only during the birth itself, but also before and especially (neglected by Czech society) after the birth. Now, I am mostly involved in the care of women during antenatal courses or during follow-up visits after birth - whether outpatient (i.e. leaving the hospital earlier than 72h after birth) or later - usually combined with lactation counselling.
Who is a midwife?
The midwife is recognised as a responsible and accountable professional who works in partnership with women to give the necessary support, care and advice during pregnancy, labour and the postpartum period, to conduct births on the midwife's own responsibility and to provide care for the newborn and the infant. This care includes preventative measures, the promotion of normal birth, the detection of complications in mother and child, the accessing of medical care or other appropriate assistance and the carrying out of emergency measures.
A midwife may practise in any setting including the home, community, hospitals, clinics or health units.
according to the 2005 international definition from the International Confederation of Midwives Congress