How Midwives Can Help Mothers To Understand That Working and Breastfeeding Can Be Combined Many new moms contemplating their return to employment believe that their choices are either to stay at home and breastfeed, or to give an artificial milk to their babies if they need to go to [...]
Empowering Birth: From Rituals to the Relax-In Sling with Karen Wilmot In this podcast episode, Dr. Margreet Barnardt (Wibbelink) hosts Karen Wilmot, a South African midwife, to discuss natural birthing and the Relax-In Sling, a tool designed to support women during pregnancy and childbirth. Karen emphasizes the [...]
An Overview of Down syndrome There is little knowledge and a lot of fear about Down syndrome testing, screening, and having a baby diagnosed with the syndrome. As Sensitive Midwives we need to know how to advice and counsel our clients whether to go for screening and [...]
Screening and Testing In Pregnancy Prenatal Screening and Testing, what is it and when is it best done? Merlyn Glass, from Genetic Counselling Network, explains. There is clear difference between prenatal screening and prenatal invasive testing and it is important to understand this. Background All of us usually [...]
Making a difference as a Sensitive Midwife - it’s all about the journey! In this episode Mbali Tshabalala shares her journey of becoming a Professional Nurse & Midwife and how she persevered against the odds and is now a passionate ‘Sensitive Midwife’. Mbali received her education at [...]
Birth Options Series - When Midwife-Led Care, When Ob&Gyn-Led Care? Welcome and thank you for listening! Dr. Howard Manyonga is the founder of Network One Health (Pty) Ltd a health management company that establishes and operates Integrated Maternity Practices. These are multidisciplinary teams with a presence in [...]
Birth Options Series - Elective Cesarean Section Welcome and thank you for listening! In this episode we interviewed Amy, who chose an Elective C-Section for the birth of her firstborn. Amy lives in Jeffreys Bay and is married to Silvino. She is a professional wedding photographer and [...]
Birth Options Series - Birthing With A Doula Welcome and thank you for listening! In this episode we talked with Birthing Doula Beverley Chigwanda. As a Birthing Doula Bev’s utmost aim is to give families, who have given her the honor to be part of their journey, [...]
Birth Options Series - A Normal Vaginal Delivery With Epidural Welcome and thank you for listening! Epidural fact-file There’s good and bad news, and there are points to ponder… Epidurals are the most common form of pain relief in private South African hospitals. You’ll lie curled on [...]
Options Series - Birthing In A Government Hospital Welcome and thank you for listening! In the next episode of the ‘Birth Options Series’ we will be talking about giving birth in a Government Hospital. For many women this is the only option available for them, and it [...]
