Rita Schégerin
My career choice was an unusual one. The birth of my three children led me to change careers and become a midwife with a degree in furniture design.
After my second and third births, I was so enchanted by the atmosphere of the delivery room that I enrolled in midwifery school when my daughter turned two. It wasn't easy going to school and hospital placements with three young children, but I became more and more interested in this vocation. Unfortunately, I often encountered attitudes, attitudes and communication during my placements that I could not identify with, but fortunately I was able to learn from colleagues who were not only highly qualified professionally, but also who gave me what I was looking for in a good midwife. This complex knowledge is something that I have been trying to constantly develop ever since. This complexity consists of knowing and supporting the physical and psychological processes of the pregnancy-birth-confinement period, treating the father-mother-baby-family as a unit, respecting the competence of the expectant mother and her child, accompanied, of course, by appropriate communication with positive suggestion and a high level of empathy.