Verena Schmid
Verena Schmid ha 40 anni di esperienza come ostetrica indipendente, negli ambiti dell’assistenza alle nascite a domicilio,dell’insegnamento e della scrittura.
Nel 1985 ha fondato l’associazione per il parto naturale e il parto a domicilio Il Marsupio e nel 1996 fonda la Scuola Elementale di Arte Ostetrica srl – SEAO che ha diretto fino al 2016.
Da oltre 30 anni insegna alle ostetriche di tutto il mondo l’approccio salutogenico applicato alla Midwifery Care, che ha sviluppato nel modello della Salutofisiologia.
Da ottobre 2011 è docente presso l’Università di Scienze Applicate di Salisburgo nel Master “Fisiologia per Ostetriche”. Ha inoltre collaborato con l’Università Conception, in Cile, formando i loro professori e insegnando nel Master in Primal Health nel 2018.
È autrice di numerosi articoli e libri e ha fondato la rivista specialistica “Donna e Donna – il giornale delle ostetriche” (1996-2022). Nel 2000 ha ricevuto il Premio Internazionale Astrid Limburg per aver promosso l’indipendenza delle ostetriche e la nascita naturale. Ha insegnato a livello internazionale in Europa e in Sud America e portato avanti le proprie ricerche ad Amsterdam con i professori Kloosterman, A. Limburg, B. Smulders; a Pithiviers con M. Odent; a Londra con i Birth Centers e il MIDIRS; e in Italia, tra gli altri, con la professoressa Milani Comparetti. È autrice di 7 libri, alcuni dei quali tradotti in inglese, ebraico e tedesco.
Nel 2024 sono in uscita due suoi eBook in lingua inglese.
Verena Schmid has 40 years of experience as an independent midwife, working in homebirths, teaching and writing. In 1985 she founded the association for natural childbirth and homebirth “Il Marsupio” and in 1996 the “Elemental School of Midwifery Art” which she directed until 2016. For over 30 years she’s been teaching midwives all around the world about the salutogenic approach applied to the Midwifery Care, which she developed into the model of “Salutophysiology”. Since October 2011 she has been a lecturer at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences in the “Physiology for Midwives” Master Degree. She also collaborated with the University Conception, in Chile, educating their professors and teaching in the Master Degree in Primal Health. She is the author of numerous articles and books and founded the midwifery magazine “Donna e Donna – the midwives’ journal” (1996-2022). In 2000 she was awarded the International Astrid Limburg Prize for promoting midwifery independence and natural childbirth. Until 2004 she worked as an independent midwife, teaching internationally in Europe and South America and pursuing her own research in Amsterdam with Prof. Kloosterman, A. Limburg, B. Smulders; in Pithiviers with M. Odent; in London along with Birth Centers and MIDIRS; and in Italy, among others, with Prof. Milani Comparetti. She is author of 7 books, some of which translated in English, Hebrew and German.
eBooks in English
"We focus not on risks but on resources and how to improve them. We apply positive communication to see the best, not the worst. We lead women back to their body and self-knowledge, we use physiological interventions in case of need without any side effects, we improve normal birth also with physiological hypoalgesia.”
Verena Schmid
The mainstream obstetric culture, based on routinary biases and fear rather than on scientific evidence, is in a strong contrast with midwives’ feelings and intuition; it is also in contrast with women’s and it turns out to be specifically in contrast with physiological processes.
The two texts published here offers tools for a change in care through a paradigm shift. A salutogenic, holistic approach is closer to women’s and babies’ real needs and health resources, acknowledging their natural competences. This new paradigm is also more effective in terms of health’s outcomes.
Verena Schmid
The Essence of Childbirth - Life Journeys and Resources
The Essence of Childbirth, a bestseller in Italy since 18 years, is aimed to women and their partners, but also to midwives who want to explain physiological resources to women. It narrates the potential residing in the birth experience, a potential that every woman has the power to activate, the symbolic value of the processes of life that are inherent in the journey through pregnancy, birthing and breastfeeding, the emotional and transformative journey of woman and baby, the extraordinary life force that manifests itself within them and also in the father, their multiple resources. This book restores the women’s importance and centrality in the whole process of maternity, guides them from within and supports them in their very personal choices.
The Essence of Childbirth is available on
Barnes&Noble
Hoepli Store
Amazon (Kindle)
and on many other online libraries.
About Physiology in Pregnancy and Childbirth
About Physiology in Pregnancy and Childbirth is aimed to midwives and caregivers. It contains a series of my own articles, some older, some more recent, on topics in applied physiology to reinforce a paradigm already in the heart of midwives: salutophysiology. Read and learn more about it!
About Physiology is available on
Barnes&Noble
Hoepli Store
Amazon (Kindle)
and on many other online libraries.
