Making a difference as a Doula In this weeks episode, Dr. Margreet Barnardt (Wibbelink) chats with Patricia Musarurwa, a doula making a significant impact in her community. Patricia, a mother of two and a doula for 12 years at the Healthy Mom and Baby Clinic, shares her journey [...]
Birthing Positions: All You Need To Know! In this captivating podcast episode, Dr. Margreet, the Birth and Baby Show podcast host, embarks on a groundbreaking discussion about birthing positions. As a passionate midwife specialist, Margreet advocates for a return to natural birthing practices, empowering women and midwives [...]
Birth Positions: What Is Evidence Saying? The labouring body most often constitutes a healthy, powerful body that has much more in common with the dancing, running, or erotic body than it does with the pathological body in need of cure and healing. (Sara Cohen Shabot, 2015:233) The [...]
Bring Balance Back To Your Body With Tissue Salts Tissue salts are a natural way to help bring balance to the body and keep you in optimum health – they empower your cells to unlock vitality. Tissue Salts were developed to help restore wellness from the inside [...]
Let's Talk About It series: Women Living with HIV and Motherhood In this episode, healthcare professional Zanele Cekiso shares valuable insights into living with HIV, focusing particularly on pregnancy and the complexities that can arise. Zanele's extensive experience in the field provides a unique perspective, offering guidance to [...]
Let's Talk About It series: Unplanned Pregnancy This episode is part of a series: "Let's Talk About It" on The Birth and Baby Show. Dr Margreet had a candid conversation about a topic that's often left in the shadows: unplanned and unwanted pregnancies. Guest, Thandi Innocentia Radebe, [...]
Let's Talk About It series: Breast Cancer A Story of Resilience, Hope, and Healing Breast Cancer Awareness Month serves as a reminder of the many challenges women face, as well as their remarkable strength and resilience. In this episode of the "Birth & Baby Show," we are [...]
Let's Talk About It series: Cervical Cancer We are starting a new series: ‘Let’s talk about it’ addressing the topics we rather don’t want to talk about, especially topics that are related to sexual and reproductive health as it is subject to stigma. We are kicking the series [...]
When Working Impacts Breastfeeding, Let’s Make Sure It’s Positive! La Leche League Leader and resident Sensitive Midwifery breastfeeding contributor, Jane Maasdorp, advises midwives on how they can help mothers to understand that working and breastfeeding can be combined. Background It took a while for those in the [...]
Hormonal Health for Women Jacqui Niehaus is back for a power packed interview, this time on hormonal health for women. She featured earlier in an episode on Nutrition for the (wanting to be) Mom. This time she unpacks our hormonal health and what a healthy cycle looks [...]
