Printable resourcesPrintables,to keep with you
Printable summaries for your Mutterpass, your bag, your phone.
What they are
The long guides,made small enough to carry
At Birth & Mother, we believe good information should reach you before you need it, in a language that feels like your own. These printables are for international families finding their way through pregnancy and early parenthood in Germany, often navigating a new healthcare system, a new language, and a greater distance from home than they expected.
What they give you is the chance to take in what matters ahead of time, in your own time, so that when the moment comes, you are reminding yourself rather than learning it for the first time.
They bring the most important parts of the long guides together in one place: easy to save, print, and return to whenever you need a reminder, reassurance, or a practical next step. For the full picture, the Guides remain the in-depth resource.
How to use them
A small piece of support,wherever you are
Keep them on your phone, print them for the fridge, or tuck them into your Mutterpass. Designed to travel with you from pregnancy and birth into the postpartum, they are there whenever you need a reminder, a practical next step, or a little reassurance.
Where they help
- In the hospital bag, when you cannot think clearly and want the facts in front of you.
- At a midwife or clinic appointment, when a question comes up and you would rather not rely on memory.
- For the person supporting you, so they can speak up on your behalf if the room is German-speaking and you are not.
- In the first forty days, taped to the fridge as a quiet reminder of what rest is allowed to look like.
A gift for our launch
Three booklets,to carry you through pregnancy, birth, and beyond
These booklets are normally part of the care Birth & Mother clients receive. While we are in our soft launch, you can have all three as a gift, here for a limited time. Choose a booklet to open it in a print-ready page you can fold into your Mutterpass.
Birth & Mother
Booklet 1 of 3
Before the Birth
pregnancy
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Booklet 2 of 3
The Birth
the day itself
open & printBirth & Mother
Booklet 3 of 3
The Weeks After
the Wochenbett
open & printBooklet 1
Before the Birth
How pregnancy care works in Germany, a pregnancy glossary in plain English, and the bilingual questions to ask when you choose where to give birth. One A4 sheet, printed on one side and folded twice into a four-page A6 booklet for your Mutterpass.
Open & print2Booklet 2
The Birth
What to expect at the birth, the German and English words that keep your voice in the room (with the BRAIN questions), and a birth glossary. A four-page A6 booklet, printed on one side of a single sheet.
Open & print3Booklet 3
The Weeks After
The Wochenbett: recovery, feeding, your midwife at home, and your mental health, with the words to ask for help and a postpartum glossary. A four-page A6 booklet, printed on one side of a single sheet.
Open & printBeyond the gift
The wider libraryopens with your care package
Beyond these three, the collection keeps growing. The tick-list checklists, for what to arrange before the birth, what to pack, and what to register afterwards, are open on the shelf below. The two full sheets, your year of appointments and tests and a guide to labour for the hospital bag, and the printable summaries of each long guide belong to the care package our clients and Circle receive, so the rest of the library arrives with someone alongside you rather than all at once.
The full set arrives with your care package or commitment to Birth & Mother. You can see how the care works in Doula Care, or, for the invitation-only Circle, say hello.
Open the library
Checklists, before & after: open now
Before Baby Comes
The admin and preparation worth doing before the birth, in a tick-list you can work through slowly.
Open & printYour Hospital Bag
What to pack for the birth: the documents first, then everything for you and your baby. Ready by week 36.
Open & printAfter Baby Arrives
What to register and apply for once your baby is here, in roughly the order it needs doing.
Open & printTwo full sheets
Your Appointments and Tests
Every routine appointment and test offered in Germany: the German name, what it is in English, when it falls, what it involves, and why it is offered, with room to write your own dates in.
In Labour
For the hospital bag: the stages of labour, the pause before pushing that most people are never told about, what helps with the pain, TENS, and phrases in German for the room.
A summary of every guide
Your Hebamme
Midwifery care in Germany: who they are, what your insurance covers, the types of midwife you may meet.
Where to Give Birth
Hospital, birth house, or home, side by side.
The German Maternity System
Appointments, paperwork, and benefits, distilled into a printable you can keep with you.
The Wochenbett
What rest can look like in the first forty days.
When Birth Changes Course
A breech baby, a caesarean, or birth after a caesarean (VBAC), and the choices that stay yours.
Family Life in Germany
The first year with a baby in Germany: midwife care and Rückbildung, the paperwork, feeding, and finding other mothers.
The guide summaries open with your care package.