Postpartum prep for moms in Switzerland
A plan for your body, your mind, your home and the Swiss system, so you're not figuring it out alone at 3am.
In English, for moms in Basel, Zurich and the Fricktal.
Start here
In personSomeone by my sideCare at home and closing the bones in Basel, Zurich and the Fricktal. Best booked in pregnancy.
OnlinePrepare at my own paceMy online course, opening in January.
OnlineSomething to read or useA free guide for your partner, recipes and a matrescence workbook.
FreeJust the checklist for nowThe Swiss postpartum checklist by email.
What to pack, what to prepare at home, and the Swiss to-dos most expats find out about too late.
The Swiss part
The system is generous but complicated, and most of it doesn't come to you by itself. Here's where to start: what expat moms most often find out about too late.
Home visits from a midwife after the birth are paid by basic insurance. But you need to find and book her while you're pregnant.
Maternity pay, child allowance, your baby's health insurance. Each has its own office and its own deadline.
Nobody drops by with soup. Here, your village has to be built on purpose, ideally before the baby comes.
In your home · Basel · Zurich · Fricktal
The weeks after a birth go better when someone is looking after the person who just gave birth. I come to your home, in English.
Karina Boksz. Mom and expat in Switzerland, holistic postpartum practitioner in training with Clover Yoga Postpartum, MA in Psychology. Why I do this
A two to three hour ritual in your home: a bath or sitz bath, a small altar, and the closing ceremony, shaped around you after a short conversation beforehand.
From six weeks after the birth, or years later. It's also for grief, loss or another big change in life.
Price on request
Ask about a dateVisits after the birth, so you can rest, eat well and have someone on your side: bodywork and herbal baths, a warm meal cooked in your kitchen, the baby held while you sleep. Use them in the first weeks or later in the first year, whenever you need them most. I take a few families each season.
3 founding spots for births from March 2027, at an introductory price, in exchange for your honest feedback.
See everything a visit can include, and the packages →Price on request
Online course · opens January 2027
Most birth prep stops at the birth. This course is for what comes after, here in Switzerland, from pregnancy into the first months.
Waitlist members hear first when it opens and get the founding price.
I'm a mom, an expat in Switzerland, and I'm training as a holistic postpartum practitioner. For years my work has been about people and what they really need: first in psychology, then designing digital health tools around real people's lives.
I learned about postpartum the hard way. Far from my own family, I didn't want help, and I struggled for most of that first year. Nobody had told me what the weeks after the birth would ask of me, or how the Swiss system works when you're the one who has to find it.
So now I do the part I wish someone had done for me. I help moms here prepare for the first year, and help the people around them understand what she needs. I've also read thousands of questions from moms in Swiss WhatsApp groups, so I know what people here actually look for.
Holistic postpartum practitioner in training (Clover Yoga Postpartum) · MA in Psychology · mom and expat in Switzerland
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