https://www.vpoe-english.nl/appointments daily 0.75 2025-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507643656-DOM6ECK554TDHJ7PSYXN/Wild+Flower+photography+-+Valeska+-2.jpg Appointments & Check-ups https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507643663-14C2FGMO86ESD7QIWWLS/Wild+Flower+photography+-+Valeska+-1ps.jpg Appointments & Check-ups https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507643682-GVIOZU171XA501UNMLSH/Wild+Flower+photography+-+Valeska+-16.jpg Appointments & Check-ups https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507643675-1O014A67MEPZVXGSDJNM/Zwanger+folders.jpg Appointments & Check-ups https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507643689-IJ94YNSODSGTUUY4V6YO/Wild+Flower+photography+-+Valeska+-17.jpg Appointments & Check-ups https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507643669-J1APH1VL825NDPDORZUT/Wild+Flower+photography+-+Valeska+-6.jpg Appointments & Check-ups https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507643618-HV5BGMOMO9UES4TI64ZD/Wild+Flower+photography+-+Valeska+-4.jpg Appointments & Check-ups - Follow-up visits The follow-up visits take place around weeks 16, 22, 26, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40 and 41. If necessary, you will of course come more often. The follow-up visits will take about 15 minutes, during these appointments we check the progress of the pregnancy of you and the baby. During the follow-up visits, we check the growth and position of the baby by means of an external examination and we listen to the heart sounds. Of course there is the opportunity to ask all your questions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507643622-IACE73T8M9Q47ICJNRTU/Wild+Flower+photography+-+Valeska+-16.jpg Appointments & Check-ups - Heart consultation hour Every Tuesday from 16.30 pm until 17.00 pm you are most welcome at our heart walk-in consultation at Kraijenhoffstraat 32B. If you are pregnant between 12 and 22 weeks, you can always come by to listen to the heartbeat. It is okay to visit the heart walk-in consultation multiple times if you like. If you want to, you are welcome every week. If there are many questions or symptoms, we advise you to make an extra, separate appointment. https://www.vpoe-english.nl/education-courses daily 0.75 2025-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507661451-8CMR8JHCI929DZMKGAZK/Wild+Flower+photography+-+Valeska+-6.jpg Education & Courses https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507661437-DXRKGRYQ1631Q6Q2TX18/Wild+Flower+photography+-+Valeska+-15.jpg Education & Courses https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507661464-GU4NW3OL2EKWD9QHXQKG/Wild+Flower+photography+-+Valeska+-1ps.jpg Education & Courses https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507661429-URYMDBZEZ3X8JJSILPF3/Zwanger+folders.jpg Education & Courses https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507661471-V7DFIZFRCOEW1FS0FNZL/Wild+Flower+photography+-+Valeska+-27.jpg Education & Courses https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507661445-HV0BLY8Y6VN2ICU7KGVK/Wild+Flower+photography+-+Valeska+-2.jpg Education & Courses https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507661391-N71SFACO870VGNYC967W/Borstvoeding.jpg Education & Courses - Breastfeeding It seems very simple: a breast with milk, a baby with a hunger, you click that together and tada: breastfeeding! However, it is not always as simple as it seems, often it really takes some time, effort and patience to be able to feed properly. To prepare yourself for the breastfeeding period, we recommend that you attend an information meeting so that you know a little more in the first hectic week after the birth of your baby. Lactation consultant Ineke van Straeten provides this information for us. It is a combined education about breastfeeding and baby behavior, very useful. The data in 2025 are 13 January/ 10 February/ 10 March/ 14 April/ 12 may/ 9 June/ 14 July/ 4 August/ 8 September/ 13 October/ 10 November/ 15 December. 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We are situated on the border of Amsterdam Centrum, Zeeburg and Oost. As of the year 1999 we have formed a close-knit, energetic and professional team, with the aim of doing everything we can to help a woman to bring a child into the world, in good health and full of confidence, in the way she wants. A pleasant pregnancy and a good child-birth will form the basis of parenting based on trust. To stand at that cradle, that's why we do it. https://www.vpoe-english.nl/contact daily 0.75 2023-06-12 https://www.vpoe-english.nl/what-to-take-care-of daily 0.75 2026-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507664813-3HZT1NN89AYBZRD4LI7G/Wild+Flower+photography+-+Valeska+-15.jpg What to take care of https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507664831-OL6VMRWZDYWYLDT2AXDB/Wild+Flower+photography+-+Valeska+-1ps.jpg What to take care of https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507664846-6V82YV07MX9A8EDRQFSK/Wild+Flower+photography+-+Valeska+-7.jpg What to take care of https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507664853-RZMHT7XSHS06Y934TUPS/Wild+Flower+photography+-+Valeska+-27.jpg What to take care of https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507664839-H92VR65KKJTG3YSBMZ00/Wild+Flower+photography+-+Valeska+-21.jpg What to take care of https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507664819-F3K2CIUC8JPR1OD27BW8/Zwanger+folders.jpg What to take care of https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507664774-8HPF5MJJXZNG99748PP6/Wild+Flower+photography+-+Valeska+-7.jpg What to take care of - Courses Curious about which pregnancy courses there are? 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Childbirth information, what to expect Delivery positions How to deal with pain? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507668096-KWQ0T300EDD5OPKOPX4F/Wild+Flower+photography+-+Valeska+%28extra+foto%27s%29-8.jpg Child birth - When to call? It sounds crazy, but when the delivery starts, you know whether you want to call us. We think the most important thing is that you call us if you need us. If you like having a guideline, here are the calling instructions: If you're worried, or if you think it's appropriate to call us If you have, with your first child, contractions every 3-5 minutes for about 2 hours that last 1 minute. If you have given birth before, you can call us when you have strong contractions that come about every 5 minutes If the membranes rupture and the amniotic fluid is green or brown. Then you call immediately! If the amniotic fluid is clear (pink or like pineapple juice), you call during the day If the water breaks and we have told you during the last check-up that you have to lie down because the head has not yet descended properly If you lose a lot of blood If any of the above happens while you are less than 37 weeks pregnant, then call us immediately https://www.vpoe-english.nl/maternity-time daily 0.75 2025-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507656144-EVTEDTHCB3HXOKCHSHZH/Baby+met+mutsje.jpg Maternity time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507656160-10XPS98HYARFWD0LQR40/Wild+Flower+photography+-+Valeska+-24.jpg Maternity time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507656130-1DAFV3C77NCDM29QB50N/BV-2.jpg Maternity time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507656170-8BESH06W0MU7BJZULIZN/Wild+Flower+photography+-+Valeska+-25.jpg Maternity time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507656118-XJM86B5D5HAJ0RB00ZJW/Vader+met+baby.jpg Maternity time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507656153-XF5X5L5Y2TYDOGNEQ684/Wild+Flower+photography+-+Valeska+-26.jpg Maternity time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507656077-H8OITC9KQRPEPEHQREU0/Wild+Flower+photography+-+Valeska+-14ps.jpg Maternity time - Signing up for maternity care You can already sign up with maternity care after the term ultrasound. Do this as soon as possible, preferably when you are about 12 weeks pregnant, but no later than in the 20th week. This is the best way to get the number of hours of maternity care you need. You may get fewer hours due to busy periods, for example during holiday periods or during a baby boom. You always receive the legal minimum of maternity care: 24 hours spread over 8 days. You can find the list with maternity care compagnies here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/642a82f5e5cf7a1d072498e8/1680507656081-42AWIISSMU908Q0OZE7L/Wild+Flower+photography+-+Valeska+-26.jpg Maternity time - Time to recover Pregnancy and childbirth are major events for the mother's body. It is for good reason that giving birth is often compared to running a marathon! Your body needs time to recover, but mentally too, the period after childbirth can be quite tough, due to all the changes and often little sleep.