As a team of midwives, we promote natural birth and offer holistic care during your pregnancy, birth and postpartum. This promotes trust in us and enables you to experience a self-determined birth and to improve your body confidence. A birth centre like this one creates a warm atmosphere for the whole family and enables you to give birth far away from the hectic hospital routine. In this way, you can devote yourself fully to yourself and your baby.

During the preliminary discussion with the midwife, we will evaluate whether a birth at the birthing center is an option for you. The services of our birthing center are generally intended for healthy women who are experiencing a uncomplicated pregnancy and expecting a healthy child.

The competence of midwives includes the independent care of a physiological birth. Studies show that a birth in a birthing centre is as safe for healthy women with uncomplicated pregnancies as a hospital birth. In the birthing centre, you will receive individual 1:1 care during childbirth. This means that your midwife is there for you at all times and does not attend to any other births at the same time. This allows us to quickly recognise any deviations from the normal course of labor. If you or your child require additional support such as medication or medical interventions during childbirth, the transfer to Zollikerberg Hospital or another nearby hospital will be initiated. If your child needs support after the birth, additional assistance from the hospital will be requested after the primary care provided by the midwife. Our midwife team is regularly trained for out-of-hospital emergencies, and the birthing center is equipped with emergency medications and the necessary infrastructure.

Visits are possible as part of our informational events.

Here is the link to the information evenings for expectant parents.

The midwives’ competence includes guiding the physiological birth and recognising deviations. However, should you or your child need further support, it is possible to get medical help quickly and safely from the Zollikerberg hospital next door or to transfer you there.

To ensure optimal preparation for your birth in the Geburtshaus Zollikerberg, we would like to start taking care of you as early as possible (from the 32nd week of pregnancy at the latest). You are welcome to contact us directly or have your gynaecologist register you for a preliminary consultation.

Should you or your child need support, it is possible to transfer you quickly and safely to the Spital Zollikerberg, where further obstetric or neonatal services are available.

Yes, the Geburtshaus Zollikerberg midwife will accompany you and/or your newborn baby when you are transferred to the hospital ward. Once there, she will say goodbye to you, and the hospital midwife will continue to accompany you with the same commitment and compassion.

After you have left the birth centre, we recommend that your newborn baby has an initial medical check-up in the permanent paediatric unit of the Spital Zollikerberg.

In order to ensure that parents and their newborn baby enjoy a calm introduction to the family, only siblings are allowed to visit in addition to the accompanying person. Unfortunately, the siblings are not allowed to stay overnight in the birth centre.

Unless otherwise requested, the postpartum care will be provided by your trusted midwife team at the Geburtshaus Zollikerberg.

Childbirth at the birth centre is covered by your health insurance. The flat rate of CHF 800 must be paid by the mother herself. First consultation (CHF 150) and the flat rate of CHF 800 must be paid by the mother herself. The first consultation for a delivery at the birth centre in Zollikerberg can be deducted from the flat rate.