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Practice

Cheryl’s Gentle Births
36 Westbrook Ave
Westville, Durban

Services Offered

Antenatal consultations
Home, hospital and clinic births
Water births
Hypnobirths

Background Experience

Cheryl trained in 1986 and in 1993 went on to specialize in midwifery and worked for many years in the traditional labour ward setting.

It is here that she gained valuable experience in the management of complications in pregnancy and childbirth, but it is also here that she began to realize that there must be a gentler option for the birthing mother with a low-risk pregnancy and that less intervention meant a better outcome for mom and baby.

She started her private midwifery practice in 1999 and has been in private practice for the last 13+ years having delivered close on 600 babies.

She personally has had two unmedicated, water births at home, which only served to strengthen her belief in a women’s right to choose the type of birth that is right for her and to be surrounded by a team of women who provide a holistic approach to pregnancy, labour and birth.

Every birth is attended by Cheryl as the midwife and a doula, who herself is a midwife and often a second doula. That means there are never less than two fully trained midwives at your birth, midwives whom you have built a relationship with, and who are intricately aware of your and your partner’s wishes concerning your special birth.

Qualifications

Registered nurse
Registered midwife

Contact Details

Tel: (031) 266 9952
Cell: 083 288 8203
Email: cherylsgentlebirths@gmail.com
Website: cherylsgentlebirths.weebly.com
Facebook: Cheryl’s Gentle Births