Sensitive Cesarean Section – What Is It And How Can It Be Achieved? Welcome and thank you for listening! Midwife Specialist Melanie Kearney joined Dr Margreet for an insightful conversation about ‘a Sensitive Cesarean Section’. Melanie’s love for working with new life started in her final year [...]
Health Is Everyone’s Right And Their Responsibility! Welcome and thank you for listening! Dr Eseza Nambassi, guest of this episode, graduated from medical school in 1985. She focused much of her medical career on HIV, and is passionate about the role of lifestyle (especially nutrition) on health or [...]
Midwives Exclusive, Leading The Way Empowering The Next Generation Of Midwives Welcome and thank you for listening! Midwives Exclusive is a team midwifery practice in Pretoria. It was started by Heather Pieterse who originally became an independent midwife working for the Sister Lilian Centre before going it [...]
Endometriosis - Let’s Talk About It… Welcome and thank you for listening! In this episode, we talk with the lovely Sebabatso Tsaoane about Endometriosis and the linked (in)fertility issues. Sebabatso shared from her own personal experience as well as the extensive research she is conducting in and [...]
Stem Cell Collection - Making Informed Decisions When it comes to making decisions about cord blood banking and delayed cord clamping, are parents given accurate, balanced and honest information? Recent years have seen the rise of cord blood banking (among those who can afford it), while at [...]
Delayed, Or Rather ‘Optimal’ Cord Clamping: Evidence-Based Practice? Welcome and thank you for listening! The biologically in-tune practice of waiting for blood to transfer from the cord to the baby’s body has been shown to have numerous benefits. Studies have shown that a delay in cord clamping [...]
What First-Time Moms Need To Know Welcome and thank you for listening! The postnatal period. Many first-time mothers have said, ‘I never knew how hard it was going to be …’ Yes, you don't know what you don't know. But with realistic expectations, accurate information and support, [...]
All You Need To Know About Stretch Marks And The Incredible Marula Oil Welcome and thank you for listening! In this episode, we spoke to Nicolé Vos about pregnancy’s effect on skin and more specifically, stretch marks. Nicolé is a mom to three kids (one of whom [...]
Let’s Talk About Birth Photography Welcome and thank you for listening! Jamie-Lee Burger, owner of New Shoot Photography, has always been drawn to babies and is fascinated with the entire process of pregnancy, birth, and the miracle of it all! She loves expressing her creativity through photography [...]
Entrepreneuring As A Midwife Welcome and thank you for listening! This episode's special guest is Midwife Rebecca Graham, founder of the Grace Birthing Centre in Westville, Durban. We chat about entrepreneuring as a midwife and why moms are choosing a midwife-led birth centre to bring their babies [...]
