Premature Birth – How Can Parents Be Best Prepared For It? Welcome and thank you for listening! Our special guest today is, Dr Ida du Plessis-Faurie, a Registered Nurse and Midwife, with a PhD in Maternal and Child Nursing: Advanced Midwifery and Neonatal Nursing Science. A model for [...]
When Things Don't Go As Planned Series - Premature Labour And Birth Welcome and thank you for listening! Jessica is a new Mama from Makhanda (previously Grahamstown) in the Eastern Cape. Jessica grew up on a farm in KwaZulu-Natal and now calls the Eastern Cape home. She is happily [...]
When Things Don’t Go As Planned Series - Emergency Cesarean Section Welcome and thank you for listening! Our guest today is Elani, who grew up in Jeffreys Bay and lived there for twenty-seven years. In her early twenties she went to the United States as an au pair [...]
When Things Don’t Go As Planned Series – Birth Before Arrival (BBA) Welcome and thank you for listening! We did a series on Birth Options, knowing your options and making informed choices. But when it comes to birth, we never know how things will unfold. All births are [...]
Yolanda Masehela's Birth Story It's a boy! Third time around!!! His name is Tshepiso Jordan Masehela, born via c-section, November 2021. My name is Yolanda Masehela and this was my first c-section after three natural births. Tshepiso was born two weeks before my 40 weeks of pregnancy, because in [...]
Ra'isa Hathey-Jaffer's Birth Story Firstly thank you to the recent posts on positive births and wanting to bring back the norm of natural, beautiful and powerful births. I'd like to share my beautiful birth, the one who made me a mom, and ignited a flame inside - the [...]
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 of [...]
Labour Positions To Try For an easier labour, pick the positions you instinctively feel are best. SQUATTING Squatting helps keep you upright and opens your pelvis for better labour progress. FORWARD LEANING Ideal for resting between contractions, the forward tilt eases pain; splayed legs open up the [...]
What Is A VBAC? And Can You Have One? We’re here to reassure you that ‘once a caesar is not always a caesar’. If you have had a C-section with your first birth, you still have a good chance of having a natural birth with your next baby. This [...]
What A Doula Does Do you need a doula? With a doula’s help, you’re more likely to experience a positive birth, whether natural or C-section. For centuries, women have been supporting each other during labour. In Greek, the word ‘doula’ means ‘women’s servant’. Today, ‘doula’ refers to a someone [...]
