Breastfeeding Q&A with Midwife Specialist, Dr Margreet Welcome and thank you for listening! In celebration of World Breastfeeding Awareness Week, Dr Margreet Wibbelink addresses all breastfeeding related questions and concerns sent through by mom’s prior to the show. These include your most frequently asked, as well as 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 around the [...]
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 increases [...]
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, it [...]
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 is four-legged) and [...]
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 and did an online [...]
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 into [...]
Dealing With ‘Baby Tummy Troubles’ The Sensitive Way Welcome and thank you for listening! Sr Marion qualified as a registered nurse at the Johannesburg Academic Hospital in 1980. She went on to do midwifery and worked in postnatal wards and antenatal clinics, before studying paediatrics. After having her [...]
