Birth & Midwifery in the Netherlands
RESOURCES FOR PARENTS AND PRACTITIONERS

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Midwifery Today Country Contact

Mary Zwart

Mary Zwart is an independent midwife from the Netherlands. She graduated from the Amsterdam Midwifery School in 1969. She received her nursing training at the Leiden Academic Hospital. After traveling, she practiced privately from 1973 to 1996. Then she became involved in changes in Eastern Europe and Russia. Since 2000 she has participated in a movement to humanize the birth process in Brazil. She is the founder of the European Perinatal School, as well as a member of the European Network of Consumers and Childbirth Educators and the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services. Mary enjoys teaching midwifery internationally and recently began practicing again. She has one daughter, and she collects all kinds of midwifery objects.

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Birth/Midwifery

• Midwives Association of the Netherlands - KNOV (Koninklijke Nederlandse Organisatie van Verloskundigen)
• NU' 91 - Nursing Association