Midwives near Haaltert

After a master's degree in translation and a career as a freelance translator, Aline Schoentjes has been an independent midwife since 2008. She also holds a CU in Mindfulness and a certificate in Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting. Co-founder of Amala Espace Naissance, she has been involved for the past twelve years in the global accompaniment of future parents. You can also hear her regularly on the radio alongside Véronique Thiberghien in the Tendances Première program to defend the cause of parents and babies. With her colleagues from the Preparation and Care Center, she offers preparation sessions for birth and parenthood based on emotional touch, hypnosis and mindfulness. She will meet you after the birth in the privacy of your home for postnatal care, and support you in your first steps as a parent and breastfeeding. Aline is a member of UPSFB (the professional union of midwives) and ABFAM (the French-speaking Belgian association of friends of Mindfulness). She is constantly training with perinatal specialists and recognized Mindfulness teachers, and regularly participates in retreats to deepen her own meditative practice. She also teaches in the inter-university certificate of advanced clinical practice in midwifery. Like all Amala midwives, Aline is regularly supervised to ensure the quality of her work. Appointments with the midwife are unconventional and self-confirmed. Birth preparations last 1h15.

C'est, après un détour par des études de philosophie et l'accueil de mes enfants, que j'ai pu confirmer mon désir de faire de la maïeutique, aussi avec mes mains, et pas seulement avec ma tête. 

Je pratique mon métier de sage-femme riche de ces différentes casquettes. Je garde de la pratique philosophique, un goût pour la remise en question permanente et l'accueil bienveillant de la parole de l'autre. 

Quant à mon bagage de sage-femme, il s'est enrichi de la pratique hospitalière et libérale, que j'affectionne dans les deux cas. J'ai un tropisme pour l'hypnose, la méditation et le massage.

J'ai à cœur de vous accompagner, dans l'équipe préparation et soins, dans la plus grande ouverture et le respect de vos choix. Je mets à votre disposition toutes ces ressources afin que vous trouviez votre propre chemin de parent.

My background I grew up with my feet in the Mediterranean. I left the south of France to study in Brussels. My first big trip. And what a journey! After graduating in 2005, I decided to leave for India, backpacking, after a few replacements as a midwife in hospitals in France. I joined an Indian midwife in a small village of Karnataka in the south of India. During several weeks, I observe her...I learn...I listen... I began to develop a finesse of clinical observation. Being in the "middle of nowhere", with no analysis laboratory, no ultrasound and no fetal monitoring, forced me to adapt without concession: to use my eyes, my ears, my hands, to smell the odors. Senses that I had forgotten in my native West due to the blissful ease of access to medical science. My path will lead me to meet almost all of India and Nepal. I returned to Belgium with a heart full of stars to start working in hospitals as a midwife.