A Premature Start To Life Here are some basic facts to help you better relate to the preemie-moms you may meet. People often think that premature babies are simply born before ‘term’ babies; they stay in the NICU until they’re out of any life-threatening danger and until they’ve caught [...]
Episiotomy vs Tearing – A Mom’s Real-Life Experience Welcome and thank you for listening! I recently interviewed a mother of two, who’s had two natural births, but two completely different experiences. We all know every birth is different, but this really is a beautiful story, in the midst of this [...]
Sensitive Parenting Is Sensible Parenting Are you battling with a bawling baby? Is ‘sleep’ a sensitive subject? Does feeding involve fuss and fighting? If so, you need to take a step back, do some introspection, and think about the relevance of the advice you’ve been following – even if [...]
Homeopathy For Labour, Birth And Life After Birth Welcome and thank you for listening! For our latest podcast episode, I chatted with Ian Wheeler, Homeopathic Pharmacist and founder of the well-known Pegasus Homeopathics range. He grew his own group of retail pharmacies over 33 years but was always intuitively drawn to natural [...]
Middle Ear Infections In Little Ones Ears are self-cleaning and if there is a discharge, this needs further investigation. Cotton buds should only be used to clean the outer ear shell and not the ear canal. Ear infections are often linked to teething and allergies which, if treated, often resolve [...]
Dealing With COVID-19, From A Mother’s Point Of View What I would like my caregivers to know…. Testimonial, birth story Welcome and thank you for listening! Juliet Belasyse-Smith is a mother of three, who recently gave birth to her third baby. As per protocol she was tested for COVID-19 [...]
Breastfeeding Challenges During COVID-19 Welcome and thank you for listening! Our special guest on this episode is nurse and midwife Annerié Conradie, whose special interest in breastfeeding and antenatal education led her to start a private practice in 2016, after working in a private hospital for 14 years. She [...]
The Stars Aligned – Our Perfect Birth Story Welcome and thank you for listening! At Sensitive Midwifery, we always strive to broaden our horizons and today we want to share a beautiful birth story with you. It will help you to understand a couple’s desire to do anything they [...]
Dad's Labour Of Love You’ve been waiting nine months for this moment… The day when you finally get to meet your new little baby. Amidst all the frenzy and anticipation, the Sister Lilian Centre’s tips will help soon-to-be Dads to keep things running smoothly. Preparation is better than cure… [...]
When Things Don't Go As Planned Welcome and thank you for listening! Mother of three as well as a Doula, Drienie Viljoen wanted her dream birth at home with a midwife – ended up with a Caesarean Section after Prolonged Rupture of Membranes and a Failed Induction. She had [...]
