The aim of this article is to share our experience in Amsterdam, where we performed elective clinical practices as midwifery residents. The objective of the training program is to inform midwives and residents on issues regarding the Maternity System in Holland and to demonstrate how natural childbirth has been incorporated into the general health system. Specifically, we present our experience as students after witnessing a home birth. We were able to experience and learn about a more humanized delivery approach and a different way of organizing a maternity system. We present how cooperation among midwives can provide women with a different way of giving birth. Delivering their child at home, where home birth is safe and beneficial to low risk infants, makes women feel more in control, making decisions together with the midwife, as to how to progress during labour and delivery. The purpose of this article is to encourage midwifery residents to participate in different Maternity and Health System settings.
resident; midwife; obstetrics; clinical practices; Amsterdam; home birth; natural childbirth; birth coach; home monitoring; hands off.