Det siger professionelle om EPI NO

EPI NO er nyt i Danmark men har været anvendt med succes i nu 8 år i Tyskland og Schweiz. Vi bringer et par citater, der viser nogle af de erfaringer man har gjort sig her. Derudover har vi bedt jordemoder Dorthe Madsen fra fødeklinikken Maia om at vurdere produktet:

"Der er både fysiske og psykiske fordele ved at forberede sig på fødslen. Den psykiske fordel er, at jo mere kvinden selv gør aktivt for at forberede sig på fødslen, jo mere tryg er hun i situationen, så hun kan mærke sin krop og gøre de rigtige ting på de rigtige tidspunkter. Den fysiske fordel er, at mellemkødet er forberedt på fødslen og at kvinden er forberedt på, hvordan udspilningen føles. Jeg kan anbefale EPI NO til gravide, som en mulighed for at træne op til fødslen"

Jordemoder Dorthe Madsen

Fødeklinikken MAIA

“… Since the great majority of the women in our clinic use the Epi-No birth trainer (it is also well advertised in the prenatal courses), the percentage of cuts and larger tears has sunk dramatically. It is more and more frequent that first-time mothers give birth with an undamaged perineum (even if they have larger babies) and that tears are often relatively small.

I have begun to have trouble in training my assistant doctors in the treatment of birth injuries as these simply do not occur often enough. Particularly first-time mothers profit most from this instrument but it is also certainly valuable for subsequent pregnancies. For us this instrument represents a small revolution and we can recommend its use most warmly.

Dr. Peter Böhi   
Head physician of the Clinic for Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Altstätten, Switzerland and resident gynaecologist

" The arco Maternity Clinic was founded in August 2000. Now more than 220 pregnant women have trained successfully with the EPI·NO pelvic floor trainer . ...

Our experiences with EPI·NO:

Through the training with EPI·NO, the need for episiotomy and the spontaneous perineum tear rate have sunk significantly. The expulsion phase has in more than 70% of all births been shortened by at least half the time. The anxiety of many pregnant women concerning the “passage of the head” is discussed and can already be dissipated before the birth – many women speak after the birth of a “recognition effect” during delivery of the head because of the preceding training with EPI·NO. In particular with women who have experienced births that ended with forceps – or vacuum birth - which meant they experienced no conscious pressing phase, the “experience beforehand” of the passage of the head by the pressing out of the balloon at the end of the respective training with EPI·NO is of great importance. Without question the pressing phase, as indeed the whole birth, is associated with pain. We, thus, speak quite consciously of labour. EPI·NO helps here too to prepare for this imminent situation, for this extraordinary experience, to accept the pain. In conclusion, it should be said:


Each midwife learns and knows the active form of perineum protection, for many midwives it is a privilege to be active there where the child arrives and to avoid a rapid passage of the head and thus possible injury to the perineum. We midwives from the arco Maternity Clinic go so far as to say that an active protection of the perineum by the midwife is, after training with EPI·NO, no longer necessary. There is nothing more wonderful and fulfilling for the woman giving birth, her partner and for us midwives than for the woman to push the little head of her child with her own hand or the hand of her partner. She knows herself intuitively also through the training with EPI·NO, how much feeling and dosing this procedure requires. These births are the ones with the fewest perineum injuries and it is the most dignified, active and integral way to accompany a birth. To experience woman and man as an entity, we midwives remain in the background as extras who can call on their professional knowledge at any time and whenever necessary. On the basis of our several years of experience, we can warmly recommend the EPI·NO pelvic floor trainer to every pregnant woman as preparation for the birth as well as for the time after the birth when she is retrieving her figure.  

Irmgard Hummler, qualified midwife

Maternity Clinic & Midwife Practice Ltd. "