Midwives in Stuttgart

If you are unable to find a midwife for your pregnancy, birth or postpartum care on your own initiative, we will be happy to support you and forward your request to freelance midwives in the Stuttgart Health Department network. You can find the  contact form for the midwife coordination office (opens in a new tab) here.

Please note that only inquiries from Stuttgart and the following areas can be processed: Gerlingen, Ditzingen, Korntal-Münchingen, Kornwestheim, Fellbach, Ostfildern and Leinfelden-Echterdingen.

If you still cannot find a midwife in your area, keep looking and contact the midwives in your area again after the birth if necessary. Sometimes free capacities arise spontaneously. The following pages may help you in your search: the  midwife list of the GKV Spitzenverband (opens in a new tab) and the  midwife search Baden-Württemberg (opens in a new tab).

Your child has already been born and you haven’t found a midwife yet? Freelance midwives in Stuttgart, in cooperation with the health department of the state capital Stuttgart, offer acute midwifery care on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays throughout the year:

• Midwifery acute care offers medically necessary support in the postpartum period on a daily basis by various freelance midwives.
• Postnatal care is provided on an outreach basis and can take place at the earliest after the U2 examination and the metabolic test.
• The costs are covered by the health insurance companies.

You should register with the responsible midwife by 6 p.m. on the evening before the desired day of the visit at the latest. You can find out which midwife is responsible for you from the schedule of freelance midwives, which you can obtain together with the information letter for families either from the maternity clinic or download from this page.

A treatment contract between you and the midwife is required. You can only obtain this from the Midwife Coordination Office by e-mail at  hebammenversorgung-stuttgartstuttgartde or directly from your midwife.

If you are unable to find a midwife, you can also use the midwife consultation hours in the surrounding area.

Midwives who would like to become self-employed in Stuttgart for the first time should register with the  midwife coordination office at the public health department, enclosing a copy of their midwife certificate. Please also use the registration and deregistration form (see downloads) for changes of address, name and, if applicable, termination of freelance midwifery work in Stuttgart. The basis for registration is the  Midwifery Professions Ordinance BW (HebBO-BW) (opens in a new tab).

Information on further training is sent out via the midwife information mailing list. If you are interested in further training, you must register for the information mailing list using the registration form.

Freelance midwives can claim a municipal subsidy of 100 euros from the public health department for an out-of-hospital birth in Stuttgart. The relevant birth documentation and the completed form (see downloads) must be submitted to the  Midwife Coordination Office.