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So your birth didn’t go according to plan? Don’t blame yourself
When expectations of childbirth don’t match reality, women can feel like a failure – and are somehow at ...
Ouch! 5 Ways to prevent tearing during childbirth
There’s no guarantee that you won’t experience some degree of tearing during childbirth, but there are ways to ...
Heartbreaking: “We lost our newborn baby to Group B-Streptococcus Meningitis”
In March 2018, Nicolene Strydom lost her baby boy at not even a week old to a bacterial ...
20 Things NOT to say to a mom with a colicky baby
I thought I'd do you (and all chronically sleep-deprived moms) a favour and leave you a few important ...
Good to know: What to do when the baby is born before you get to hospital
Once the shock wears off, you have an entertaining birth story!...
The power of skin-to-skin
Skin-to-skin care is a simple, easy method of caring for newborn babies...
How childbirth education empowers parents for a better birth experience
Studies have shown that one in every four women describes giving birth as traumatic and up to 20% ...
Incredible video shows how Dr manually turns breech baby
Vanessa Fisher recently shared an incredible video on her Facebook page of what she went through to try ...
Fact vs fiction: 6 Epidural myths busted
Have your friends’ stories put you off considering an epidural? We separate fact from fiction...
Kangaroo Mother Care: The benefits and why more is better
Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is a way of caring for premature babies through skin-to-skin contact with their moms ...
The littlest micro premature baby leaves medical staff in awe
The survival of babies born between 23 and 25 weeks is still under debate, but miraculously, the littlest ...
The challenges of breastfeeding a premature baby
While breast milk helps reduce the risk of newborn death, breastfeeding a premature baby has its challenges...
4 Ways your personality changes during labour
Your hormones can turn you from a relatively sane and calm person into someone completely different...
5 Ways to help parents cope with the trauma of stillbirth
The death of an unborn baby is a tragedy that deeply affects families, health systems and wider society...
7 Things that happen during labour that no one tells you about
There are things that happen during the labour and birth process that not even your best friend will ...
I was determined to have a natural birth, but in the end, it didn’t matter
Turns out, it didn’t matter how my baby got here, just that she did...
5 Reasons babies get stuck during labour
Here are a few reasons why a “vaginal bypass” may be necessary if your baby gets stuck during ...
9 Remedies to help soothe those stitches down there
A tear down there can be extremely uncomfortable. Try these eight remedies to help soothe stitches to your ...
Your top 5 questions about birth centres answered
Want to avoid a hospital birth, but afraid to have your baby at home? A birth centre might ...
Cost-free stem cell storage programme gives hope to South African families affected by life-threatening blood disorders
Nothing in life is certain, but if we knew we could do something to help our children, why ...
