Verena Schmid, Midwife, Author, International Lecturer, Founder of SEAO

Verena 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.

VERENA’S BOOKS

• About Physiology in Pregnancy and Childbirth – 2024- (English eBook) https://seaoflorence.it/prodotto/about-physiology-in-pregnancy-and-childbirth/
• The Essence of Childbirth – Life Journeys and Resources – 2024-  (English eBook)https://seaoflorence.it/prodotto/the-essence-of-childbirth-pregnancy-women-midwifes/
• Mamma da grande. Vivere al meglio la maternità dopo i 35 anni – 2023, TERRANUOVA Edizioni (Italian paper Book)
• Salute e Nascita. Le basi della Salutofisiologia. La Salutogenesi in gravidanza – 2021- SEAO Edizioni (Italian paper Book)
• Il parto in casa e in casa maternità. Criteri di qualità e sicurezza. I vantaggi di un parto fisiologico e consapevole – 2019 – TERRANUOVA Edizioni (Italian paper book)
• Voglia di parto. Metodi e tecniche per gestire le doglie e ridurre il dolore – 2017 TERRANUOVA Edizioni (Italian paper Book)
• Partorire dopo un cesareo. Esperienze e strumenti per una scelta informata – 2017 – TERRANUOVA Edizioni (Italian paper book)