Kovacs Karina

Liv Duna Medical Center

Pregnancy Care

Areas of Interests

Midwife - Optional
Lactation Consultant

karina.kovacs@dunamedical.com

+36 1 790 7080

I remember three defining moments that led me to become a midwife.

The first is a fond memory of my mother taking me to the pharmacy when I was a child. There were several occasions like that, I loved going there. You have to imagine the old-fashioned kind of pharmacy with a huge, brown, multi-drawer cabinet and that special pharmacy smell that almost everyone knows. I collected almost all the brochures I could find about different medicines, and at home I played that I was the doctor who not only examined the patients, but also prescribed all kinds of pills, creams, and ointments.

The birth of my sister, or more precisely, my mother's pregnancy, was the next point. I talked to my little sister a lot when she was still in her tummy, and I always told her how much I was looking forward to her. As the birth approached, my mother started to get nervous, because my sister remained in the breech position. One evening I sat next to her, caressing her belly and explaining to my sister how much better it would be if she turned over. At the next medical examination, she was already in a cephalic position. The third great experience was when, during one of my first practices, I was able to quietly observe a beautiful spontaneous birth. It was then that I truly realized that it would be my honorable task to help women in labor through this vulnerable situation, to provide support and be by their side in the first moments of their becoming mothers. This first birth was a kind of confirmation that I was in the right place, that I was continuing my studies in the right direction."

I received my diploma in the summer of 2016 at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Debrecen. During my university years, I acquired a wide range of practical knowledge at the Clinical Center of the University of Debrecen.

After obtaining my diploma, I worked in Germany for almost half a year as a midwife, where I was able to expand both my practical knowledge and my everyday-professional German language skills. My competence was largely the same as the competences of midwives in Hungary, with the only difference being that the midwife there actively participates in prenatal care, since there is no midwife service in Germany. Homeopathic remedies, the use of various oils and the TENS device as a means of pain relief were widespread in the hospital.

After returning home, I worked as a midwife in Miskolc and then in Debrecen.

With a lactation consultant qualification I have