Understand how health insurance works during pregnancy in Belgium. This guide explains prenatal care reimbursements, ultrasounds, hospital birth coverage, and extra maternity benefits offered by mutualités.

Daycare places in Belgium can be competitive. Learn when parents typically register during pregnancy and how to secure childcare for your baby.

After your baby is born in Belgium, one of the first administrative steps is registering them with your health insurance fund (mutuelle / ziekenfonds). This guide explains how expat parents can complete the process to ensure their newborn is covered for pediatric care, vaccinations, and hospital services.

After birth in Belgium, midwives may visit families at home to check the baby’s health, support breastfeeding, and monitor maternal recovery.

Pregnancy care in Belgium isn’t completely free, but most costs are heavily subsidised through the public healthcare system. Learn what insurance covers and what to do if you’re uninsured.

Wondering how much it costs to give birth in Belgium? Learn how health insurance reimburses maternity care and how hospital room choices affect the final bill.

A practical guide to pregnancy administration in Belgium for expats. Learn how to apply for the birth allowance, arrange maternity leave, and complete essential paperwork before your baby arrives.

In 2026, Belgium is launching the first phase of the "Family Credit" system, a major reform designed to unify previously fragmented forms of parental and time-credit leave into a single, cohesive framework.. Here’s an overview of the key changes.

Maternity Leave in Belgium is currently 15 weeks - barely enough time to adjust to parenthood, recover from the birth, establish breastfeeding.

Petition to the Belgian Parliament to get it increased.

Check out the interview about me, Katherine Ellwood in Tervuren+ News where I share my passion for supporting pregnant and new expat parents in Belgium and why I set up this website!

Most people assume lying on a bed to labour and birth a baby is best because that’s what they see in movies. A new study published this month shows that this is many women’s lived experience. But, the reality is lying on your back to birth your baby works against you and being mobile and upright helps labour progress and makes birth easier.

Why are women giving birth on their backs?

What happens in Belgium?

Do you have to get on the bed?

Here, Jane Piot, a British born, Brussels-based doula and breastfeeding counsellor shares 6 key reasons why hiring a doula can positively impact your birth experience supporting you prenatally, on through labour and birth and beyond.

Putting together a plan for the birth of your baby can seem daunting but knowing and understanding your options, relating them to you and your baby’s specific needs and discussing your preferences with your caregivers and birth partner puts you at the centre of your birth experience and gives you agency.

As moms, we wear so many hats—caretaker, problem solver, cook, planner, chauffeur, emotional support, and more. It’s a role that comes with immense joy but also with immense pressure. A pressure often exacerbated when you live in a country that is not your own. Somewhere in the whirlwind of caring for others, we often forget the one person who needs just as much attention: ourselves.