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Information on the birthing options available; including hospital or ambulant birth deliveries, home births and water births...
Births may take place at a private or public maternity hospital. The doctor will provide information on the available choices, as well as information regarding how to book a clinic or hospital and when.
Ambulant births (Eine ambulante Geburt/Accouchement ambulatoire) are permitted in Swiss hospitals. This allows the mother to give birth at hospital but return home after a few hours if she and the baby are both well. This is not the case in all cantons. After the mother returns home a midwife visits the mother and baby regularly for up to ten days.
Women may also give birth in a maternity facility known as a birth house (Geburtshaus/maison de la naissance), where the atmosphere is deliberately more home-like and less clinical. Women are attended by experienced midwives and the birth is allowed to proceed at a pace which suits mother and baby.
Mothers also have the option of home birth with an attending midwife.