Claudia is a midwife, a Chinese medical practitioner, specialized in acupuncture and a massage therapist. In her work around childbirth, she is trying to combine physical activity, traditional approaches to health and modern medicine. Claudia’s French-German upbringing in Switzerland as well as her language orientated high school has opened up the doors for experiences in many foreign countries; exchange programs in Italy and Canada, humanitarian experiences in India and Uganda and practical hospital work in China and Bolivia. Immediately after getting her Bachelor of Health Science in acupuncture and her certificate of massage, she started working in a medical clinic in Cairns (Australia) as an acupuncturist and massage therapist. After four years in Australia, she came back to Switzerland to become a midwife. Her goal was to find the right balance between modern and natural medicine in her favourite field: obstetrics. In 2008, she completed a practical workshop with Dr Bernadette de Gasquet in France in order to help women, through physical exercises, to adjust to the changes that occur in their body during pregnancy and after childbirth. In the same year, she also completed a course with The International Association for Baby Massage, which gives her the skills to teach parents how to massage their baby. Back

Claudia Bider Heim