The Bremen Way

Excellent all-round care

During the special time of pregnancy, every woman has access to prenatal checkups. These checkups can detect any abnormalities. The Bremen approach brings together contact persons from various institutions who can support you in this situation and provides a structure outlining what kind of support and help you can find and where.

Everyone involved in the Bremen Approach is committed to helping you make a sound decision during this existential crisis. We support you with advice and guidance. The Bremen Approach provides you with access to counseling and information regarding any abnormal findings from prenatal testing.

The Bremen Way…

• supports you in your decisions following an abnormal finding during prenatal testing
• We connect you with specialists in prenatal diagnostics and competent counseling centers – all from a single source
• gives you enough time and freedom to make decisions
• You will have a contact person available to answer all your questions
• is your contact for information without long waiting times

We facilitate contacts…

• to specialists in human genetics who are familiar with the individual, often rare, genetically determined diseases and can help you get a better understanding of them
• to pediatricians who have experience with special developmental trajectories and can answer your questions competently
• to the independent pregnancy counseling center, where you can speak with a counselor about your decision-making conflicts and questions
• for a consultation in the maternity clinic during childbirth or in the event of a termination and discharge
• If you wish, we can also put you in touch with a self-help group or with parents who have been in a similar situation.

Our goal: to help you

You will have to clarify some serious questions and make some difficult decisions: Are there treatment options for your child after birth? Which ones? Do you want to continue the pregnancy? What would that mean? What will you and the child face? Perhaps you are considering terminating the pregnancy? Or would giving the child up for adoption be an option?

As painful and frightening as these thoughts are: Each of these paths is taken through personal decisions, and we will support you in making them.