We are pleased to present an exclusive interactive antenatal workshop for 5 couples in Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal. The focus will be to equip expecting couples with the knowledge to navigate the terrain around their birth choices with confidence and help them to achieve their dream of a positive birth experience!
We invite you to join midwife Marianne Littlejohn at her home in KZN for a workshop/gathering about home birth.
Home birth is a safe option for healthy low risk mothers, with good outcomes and higher satisfaction ratings that hospital birth.
In the current coronavirus situation many women want to stay at home in labour for as long as possible, or are changing their plans to give birth at home. Is this you? Are your worrying what happens if you leave it too late and baby is born at home. Or what about if there isn’t a midwife to come out, or she arrives too late? What do you need to get ready? What do you need to know? What does your partner need to know? Is this you?
This is the story of a humbling birth with history. Caroline had hoped for a homebirth for her first baby boy and instead of fulfilling her dreams, gave birth by a needed caesarian section. Caroline, a personal trainer by profession, had fallen on her sacrum and coccyx in her twenties, not once but several times …
“’Bear down now, this baby needs to be born soon’ The perineum was bulging slightly now and beginning to stretch, as the baby’s head descended in the birth canal onto the pelvic floor. The midwife leaned over the mother, her short bob cut hair fell to the side of her face. She listened to the …
Women spend years learning to behave in certain ways in order to ‘fit in’ to society. Giving Birth acts as a gateway to rediscover blocked parts of the self that enable a woman to reclaim her life force.