The interview with "SwissMom"

The biggest Swiss internet portal about childbearing and having children.

No matter if you are planning to have offspring, are still pregnant or your child is already born: Many things suddenly become different and thousands of questions appear! With us you find the answers on more than 2500 pages.

What imparts the website www.swissmom.ch?

swissmom.ch is by far the biggest internet platform for mothers-to-be. Since the start in July 2003 the homepage serves as information source to topics such as desire to have children, pregnancy, birth and the period until school enrolment.

Furthermore there is also the guidebook in the areas of law, money, job and shopping. The platform offers more than 2500 pages of knowledge in medical and practical vital matters as well as a vivid forum for the exchange among the visitors. The forum is being looked after lovingly from the moderators, which take care that no misuse is being operated and the tone with each other remains friendly.

How did www.swissmom.ch develop in the recent years?

The portal recorded a huge increase in the past years and features an average rate of approximately 900'000 visitors per month already today. An important part of it features the forum in which more than 7'000 entries are being recorded on a daily basis. During peak times more than 300 visitors are online at the same time.

How is the information on www.swissmom.ch accessible?

The visitors of the website their selves can recall the information free of charge and read it. The articles in the forum can also be read without registration. If you want to take active part in the forum, you have to register with a user name and email address.

Which information can be found on www.swissmom.ch?

The website www.swissmom.ch imparts reliable know-how, on which parents-to-be can rely on. Very popular are the baby gallery and the pregnancy calendar "week-by-week" with the respectively relevant week topics as well as the pregnancy-countdown. The forum offers the parents (-to-be) exchange possibilities with other parents. Questions can be posed and often help is being offered to a wide range of areas. Thus meetings with moms-to-be in the same childbearing month (month forums) take place, baby meetings are being organized but also families, who deal with a stroke of faith find other families, which can assist with consolation and advice.

Furthermore, the forums about the first year of life (after birthday of the baby), regional forums from whole German-speaking-Switzerland, the nursing forum and the desire to have children forum are being visited often.

Who is behind www.swissmom.ch?

A team of mothers and one grand-mother, who are able to cover different areas with their knowledge: The editor-in-chief is a doctor, also in the team is a chemist, an educationalist, a mothers consultant, an attorney, a nutritionist, a lactation consultant, a journalist and, in order that the project remains successful, a marketing assistant.

What does www.swissmom.ch additionally offer to the readers?

Every two weeks a newsletter with current reports of scientific and other worth knowing topics is being sent. You can sign up for the newsletter for free, however also here a registration is necessary. Thanks to our sponsors also sweeps with attractive prices can be offered quite often. These are very popular with our readers.

From the SwissMom-Team 

Adrienne Surbek-Janiak is a chemist. She works in a chemist's shop, where she counsels, among others many pregnants, mothers and fathers. In the swissmom-Team she specially takes care of the information around medicaments and other drugs and is additionally in charge of the areas of nutrition, travelling and shopping. Adrienne Surbek-Janiak is married, has a son (13) and a daughter (11), and lives with her family in the canton Basel-Land.  

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