Collaborative care between obstetrician, midwives and other health disciplines works best for mother and baby.
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The Birth Trauma of Mothers
The traumatic experiences a mother brings with her to her labour and birth increase the levels of tensions and fear in her body, that may impede her ability to give birth naturally and interfere with her recovery post birth.
The Travelling Midwife: More about Birth Trauma
The first lessons in life are learnt at the hands of midwives and obstetricians in maternity care units in South Africa. What characteristics are we imparting to future generations of people, both white and non-white in South Africa?
Birth in South Africa
‘Birth in South Africa’ was one of my presentations at the Damanhur Birth Summit. I presented a workshop on traditions of the ancient Khoisan and San Bushmen transcendent ways of approaching a birth, but this I will talk about later. Firstly I’d like to delineate the birthing situation in South Africa. We have two systems, namely the [...]
