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Birth & Baby - Advice You Can Trust
Shaping the future of humankind with nature, knowledge and experience, in pregnancy, birth and family health.
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- Birth & Baby - Advice You Can Trust
Birth & Baby Ep. 49 - Birth Options Series - Water Birth at Home
Welcome and thank you for listening! Danielle (37) is wife to Cordy (39) and homeschooling mom to 4 children. Naomi (11) is adopted, Lucas (9) was born in the…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 48 - Birth Options Series - Natural Birth & Non Medicated Methods of Pain Relief
Welcome and thank you for listening! Ruwaida trained as a General, Community, midwifery & Psychiatric nurse at Coronationville Nursing College and later did…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 47 - Birth Options Series - Normal Vaginal Delivery in the Hospital
Welcome and thank you for listening! Inge Burger is a new mom with a 5 month baby girl, Lika - she lives in Jeffreys Bay with her husband Tabu. Inge is a stay…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 46 - Homeopathy for pregnancy, birth and beyond - why it is such a great complementary remedy
Welcome and thank you for listening! Ian Wheeler is a Homeopathic Pharmacist and founder of the well-known Pegasus Homeopathics range. He grew his own group of…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 45 - Birth Options Series - Natural birth at Home
Welcome and thank you for listening! Marishka is a digital marketing manager, surfer and follower of Jesus. She recently gave birth to her first child and…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 44 - Birth Options Series - What are my options?
Welcome and thank you for listening! Many expectant couples have questions about what birth options they have and which will be the best for them. This will…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 43 - Check-ups and tests during pregnancy
Welcome and thank you for listening! While pregnancy is a natural process and not an illness, regular check-ups are important. Whether you go to a state…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 42 - CORD BLOOD - Why it Should Never Go to Waste
Welcome and thank you for listening! How much do you know about Cord Blood? Why is Cord Blood so important? The stem cells in Baby's Cord Blood are incredibly…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 41 - Self Regulation, Self Care and the State of Mental Health of Mothers and Midwives
Welcome and thank you for listening! "We are all just walking each other home" - Ram Dass For Mental Health Awareness month we spoke with Keshnie Mathi about…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 40 - Hormonal Health, why is it such a big deal and what is disrupting it?
Welcome and thank you for listening! Health is everyone's right and their responsibility! Hormonal health is an integral part of our wellbeing as these…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 39 - Connection with Self and Baby
Welcome and thank you for listening! "Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself" -…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 38 - Vaccination (in pregnancy) Yes or No? A Heart to Heart with Dr Margreet
Welcome and thank you for listening! It feels as if COVID-19 has taken over our lives this past year, and we're currently in the midst of the vaccine roll out…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 37 - 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…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 36 - Natural Solutions for Infertility
Welcome and thank you for listening! Sarah Clark is a Fertility Coach - her coaching system is based on the principles of functional medicine and dramatically…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 35 - 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'…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 34 - 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…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 33 - Midwives Exclusive, leading the way empowering the next generation of midwives
Welcome and thank you for listening! Midwives Exclusive is a team midwifery practice in Pretoria. It was started by Heather Pieterse who originally became an…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 32 - 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…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 31 - 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…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 30 - 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…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 29 - All you need to know about stretchmarks and the incredible Marula Oil Guest: Nicolé Vos
Welcome and thank you for listening! In this episode we spoke to Nicolé Vos about pregnancy's effect on skin and more specifically, stretchmarks. Nicolé is a…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 28 - 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…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 27 - 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…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 26 - 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…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 25 - Baby & toddler food, setting them up for life
Welcome and thank you for listening! In this episode we chatted with Amy Van Der Merwe about Baby & Toddler food: what foods are best, basic elements for a…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 24 - Exclusive breastfeeding and the working mother, can it be done?
Welcome and thank you for listening! One of the biggest threads for exclusive breastfeeding up till six months, is the fact that women need to go back to work…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 23 - Did Mother Nature let us down? Story Time with Sheree and Ricky Stone
Welcome and thank you for listening! We love real life stories! This time I chatted with a new mom and dad, Sheree and Ricky Stone. They share about their…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 22 - How to boost your and your family's immune system
Welcome and thank you for listening! Tammy Mayes is an inspiring homeschooling mom of four lively children, she is a holistic health coach and has particular…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 21 - Self Care and Essential Oils - Interview with Joy King
Welcome and thank you for listening! Our new podcast release is all about that. Special guest Joy King shares her journey of learning to take care of herself…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 20 - Birth Story – Doctor choosing a midwife-led birth
Welcome and thank you for listening! One of the women I've had the privilege of joining along her journey is Dr Caroline van der Werff – a doctor from Port…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 19 - Baby Positioning - how to get it right and what to do with an occiput posterior position
Welcome and thank you for listening! Our latest podcast tackles the important topic of baby positioning – more specifically, the occiput posterior position…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 18 - 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…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 17 - Give solutions to infant sleep problems - don't create them
Welcome and thank you for listening! Dealing with sleep queries can be tricky because tired parents can feel quite emotional and the wrong advice can have…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 16 - 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…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 15 - Dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, from a midwife's point of view – lessons learned
Welcome and thank you for listening! Professional Nurse and Midwife Heilet van Endt-Maritz, has been one of the many heroes out there during these testing…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 14 - Homeopathy for labour, birth and life after birth
Welcome and thank you for listening! Homeopathic remedies have been tried and tested over many years and can be used safely for adults, children, and babies…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 13 - 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…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 12 - 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…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 11 - When A Midwife Becomes A Mother, A Birthing Narrative
Welcome and thank you for listening! I have been talking with Sanele Lukhele, a young midwife leader with an impressive resume. I got to know Sanele at last…
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Birth & Baby Podcast Ep. 10 - 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…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 09 - Interview with 'The Virtual Midwife'
Welcome and thank you for listening! Karen Wilmot the 'Virtual Midwife' was ahead of her time by becoming 'virtually available' and has some great tips and…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 08 - 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…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 07 - Right to Birth Movement
Welcome and thank you for listening! In this episode Dr Margreet Wibbelink interviews Independent Midwife Glynnis Garrod - activist and founder of the Right to…
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Birth & Baby Ep. 06 - Interview with guest Seba Tsaoane
Welcome and thank you for listening! In today's episode Midwife Margreet connects with guest Sebabatso Tsaoane, young midwife leader and founder of the Women's…