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Pregnant? Congratulations! What an exciting, special and beautiful time.

A nice, educational maternity period helps enormously after birth. At Handle With Care we steam you with a lot of love and care ready for parenting!

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Your tailor-made maternity care

  • A committed maternity specialist throughout your maternity period.
  • Years of experience and expertise that go beyond maternity care.
  • Extra support and guidance during the breastfeeding period.
  • Custom maternity care, where your wishes are leading.
  • Maternity specialists with a love for the profession

Get to know us

Handle with Care understands how special the first days of a child are and how important it is that the parents are supported in a professional yet personal way. That is why we offer more than just maternity care, so that we can help parents and their newborn child as well as possible in the first steps of a new life.

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Your pregnancy step by step

Week 2

You are now two weeks pregnant according to the count, but it is only this week that the actual fertilization actually takes place. This is because the first day of your last period is the beginning of your pregnancy. After the egg is fertilized, the journey to the uterus begins. From now on, the gender of your future baby is already determined.

Week 4

You should have your period this week with your normal menstrual cycle. Since you are four weeks pregnant, you are overdue for the first time this week. Fortunately, you can take a pregnancy test this week, but it can also be just too early.

Week 5

If you are five weeks pregnant, you can almost certainly say: you are pregnant! Congratulations! The embryo is already developing very quickly. This is how the heart is formed in this phase.

Week 8

You will likely have your first midwife appointment this week. Although you can feel little of the baby itself, you can still suffer from nausea. The embryo is already starting to move!

Week 11

After this week, the embryo is called fetus. The first phase of your pregnancy is now over and the most important organ systems have been formed.

Week 14

You are now in the second trimester. Often the pregnancy ailments are now less severe, so you can enjoy the pregnancy more! Your belly may have grown considerably in the meantime.

Week 17

In this week you can often find out whether you are expecting a boy or girl. By means of an ultrasound you can find out there long before birth.

Week 22

You are now about halfway! A special 20-week ultrasound is also planned for this. On that ultrasound, you can almost always see what gender your baby is. Of course you can choose to hear this already, or wait until after birth. You will also arrange maternity care around this period.

Week 24

As of this week, your baby is viable. That means that from this point on, doctors will do everything they can to keep your little one alive in the event of an early delivery. Your belly has already grown considerably.

Week 28

After 28 weeks you will enter the third trimester. Your baby is really getting bigger now. You can also experience sleepless nights or nightmares, this is very normal during your pregnancy.

Week 34

Sometimes you can choose to take maternity leave six weeks in advance. It will then start in week 34. Your baby is getting bigger, so a little extra rest can be very nice.

Week 37

At week 37, your baby is ready to be born. Meanwhile, it has already descended a bit, which gives your lungs more space and you can breathe easier. That is also possible, in this exciting time!

Week 40

You are due in this week! Is it finally going to happen? Handle with Care is happy to be there as soon as possible to guide you and your little one well! However, about half of the pregnant women give birth later than week 40. So you may have to be patient, but it can happen any time!

Experiences

    You really are a top maternity nurse. Thank you on behalf of Isabella, Denzel and Rivano

    On March 1, 2019, I gave birth to a healthy, beautiful son when I had to go home, I was very scared because I could not do much and I did not know much about babies and neither did my partner. Everything was new and exciting for us! Fortunately, we had received help from this super sweet and understanding woman who taught us a lot in 1 week, thank you Francis.

    The family looks back on the maternity week with full satisfaction.

    So wonderful how Simone offers care and family management. This way we can continue as a family!

    It was so nice that we had Sabrina as a maternity assistant.

    She helped and supported us so well in the choices we had to make. She is really recommended! We are happy that she can see our little man grow up and that I can always contact her if there is anything!

    What a nice and pleasant maternity week after the birth of our daughter Liv!

    With another big brother and sister who both wanted attention, it was nice and busy, but with the help of Francis things went smoothly. That way we could get used to another little one in the house and 'how it should be all over again' with a baby. The other kids also had a great week! Francis, thank you for your advice and conviviality.

    Francis provided useful information and was able to answer all our questions extensively.

    Our newborn Sem was, just like us, super satisfied with Sabrina as our maternity assistant!

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Handle with Care offers more than just the necessary.

Our maternity specialists are passionate and pay a lot of attention to you as a person, always staying professional.

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