Holding Hands With NICU Parents Welcome and thank you for listening! November is prematurity awareness month and more specifically, 17 November is WORLD PREMATURITY DAY. For this special day, I have been talking to Tasmin Botha. She is a mom who had a premature baby herself. After being discharged [...]
How Sensitive Midwife-Led Care Can Ensure A Better Birthing Experience The culture of birth in South Africa (indeed, globally) has been changing, particularly as more women are encouraged and empowered by information available to them online – from beautiful birth stories to evidence-based research – and specifically seek out [...]
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 [...]
